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During the Second World War, African American soldiers were stationed all over the world as part of the American war effort. During these deployments, African Americans encountered a number of white societies, such as those in Britain and Australia, which they generally interact…

Between 1880 and 1914, charitable emigration societies run by middle-class reformers worked to recruit and relocate London’s working-class men to work in western Canada. These societies were motivated by fears about unemployment and the moral degradation of men in the city and s…

In 1845, a 129-man crew headed by Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Canadian Arctic while trying to discover and claim the Northwest Passage for Britain. In the aftermath of the Expedition’s disappearance and the recovery of its remnants by rescue parties, British communities…

In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept the alteration of the experience of birth and the ideology surrounding it in eighteenth-century Britain. While the imposition of the man-midwife and the reframing of birth as a dis…

La Première Guerre mondiale marque le passage vers une nouvelle forme de guerre totale. Ce conflit nécessite la mobilisation de toute la nation au service de l’effort de guerre. Dans ce contexte, les médias ont servi de vecteur au discours patriotique de propagande; discours ess…

This dissertation examines three periods in Euro-American history that appear disparate but reflect the West’s changing relationship with the Islamic World and with Muslims, in particular with Muslim women, in Muslim-majority countries, the United States, and the United Kingdom.…

The Ottoman Empire's entry into the First World War in October 1914 represents a break in over a century of diplomacy in the Middle East. Previous study of late Ottoman politics has focused more upon the European states with imperial interests in the Middle East and has not adeq…

In this dissertation, I seek to devise a generalizable explanation that outlines when and why democratic countries retrench from commitments in the periphery. I examine three case studies where the phenomenon of interest occurred: France's decision to grant independence to Alger…

This dissertation is an examination of the ways in which colonial ontologies continue to structure forms of self-understanding in the postcolonial world, with specific reference to contemporary Fijian military service in the British Army. Based on seventeen months of ethnographi…

This dissertation examines the history of hunting in India under British colonialism, but with some background on earlier periods and a brief discussion on Nepal and successor states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. The study relies on Indian and British sources including private…

This dissertation examines British oil policy from the aftermath of the Suez Crisis in 1956-1957 until the Iranian Revolution and the electoral victory of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party in 1979. It was a period marked by major transitions within Britain's oil policy as w…

Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Region, along the border with Afghanistan, is home to a number of Pashtun tribes that continue to remain politically autonomous. Wresting control of this territory has been the object of numerous efforts by various alien rulers over the years, none …

The geopolitical situation in the Mediterranean before the First World War has been generally ignored by historians. However, in the years before the War, the fact that the Mediterranean was shifting from British control to a wide open, anarchic state occupied the minds of many …

This dissertation addresses early British intelligence activities and Anglo-Ottoman relations by viewing the activities of army officers and private individuals as a collective pursuit to safeguard British imperial interests. It offers a new understanding of the relationships be…

This dissertation is a transnational history of twentieth-century anti-colonial nationalism. It focuses specifically on the connections between the dissenting British left and Iraqi nationalists during the First World War and its aftermath. Based on extensive archival research i…

This dissertation is a literary study of how four different writers employ the Indonesian Archipelago as a setting in which to conceive of human civilisation as a movement away from the material reality of Darwinian natural selection. The writers featured are the nineteenth-cent…

This dissertation focuses on the political career of Enoch Powell. It follows Powell's trajectory from a young army officer in the British Raj to the center of British politics in the 1960s through to his return to the periphery in Ulster Unionism. It argues that Powell's notori…

Romanization is the process of understanding how Rome culturally expanded beyond military actions. This study seeks to compare how Romanization proceeded in the provinces of Britain and Egypt.

The aim of this research is to expose the longue durée of the bilateral relations of Italy, Britain and to a lesser extent France, with Libya. The historical narrative presented, traces the interests and policies that have governed these bilateral relations back to the year Ital…

How do journalists determine who receives standing in mass mediated public debates? Previous theories explain the rule: Public officials and other elite stakeholders typically dominate media coverage. But they fail to explain the exception: Non-elite actors such as social moveme…