Despite 40 years of independence, Africa is still synonymous with failed development. This work's hypothesis is that dominance-dependence hindered the sustainable development of Africa. European powers, such as France and Britain, expanded their empire to Africa in order to gain…
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The early Salvation Army's foreign missionary enterprise from Britain to India and South Africa was defined by its relationship to colonial authorities and indigenous cultures. Examining the formative years of Salvationist work in both countries (1880s to 1920s), this dissertati…
This dissertation is a broad story of the selective "de-secularization" of politics within the Western state. Through a comparative longitudinal study of governmental policies in Britain, France, and the United States, I uncover and illuminate the different conditions under whic…
This thesis investigates the representations of Islam and of Muslims in English writing during the early modern period, with particular focus on the influence of the contents of the sub-genre of the polemic biography of Muhammad as a template for the construction of these repres…
This project investigates the different outcomes of assimilation among four different immigrant groups in the U.S. and Great Britain. The process of integration in the cultural, structural and political realms is compared and contrasted among these four groups in order to arrive…
This study develops a theory explaining variation in the incidence and type of immigrant conflict and tests this theory in Great Britain and Germany. I first develop and disaggregate the concept of contemporary immigrant conflict into two component parts: (i) immigrant-native co…
This study is a story of the multiple sides of subject formation, the ways in which immigrant practice, cultural and religious, and the norms of British civil society operate in relation, each responding to the other. In this work I challenge generalized third-person notions of …
What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? Martin Conway provides an innovative account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe - and how t…
A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Ma…
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