Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man functions as an axis around which writers from former British colonies—Salman Rushdie (India), Tayeb Salih (Sudan), and Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)—construct their own Bildungsromane. This nodal point is possible because Joyce’s …
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This dissertation investigates the development and impact of British imperialism in Iran during a period of international rivalry, revolution, world war, and nationalism. Scholars of British involvement in the Middle East have generally restricted their narratives to the highest…
This dissertation explores the interplay between British concerns about colonial governance and masculinity in India between 1780 and 1857. During this period, many Britons believed that their Indian empire was one of "opinion," founded upon their supposed racial and cultural su…
The world economy experienced extensive international economic integration in the second half of the nineteenth century. This period was also the era of imperial expansion and massive capital exports from Britain to the rest of the world. One of the destinations for these gigant…
This thesis examines a longstanding object of scholarly inquiry — the degree and nature of Palestine's distinction from other settler colonies — in light of two developing fields. Some historians now examine the social history of Palestine; others, twentieth-century British colo…
This study is designed to examine the transformations of collective identities in twentieth-century Eritrea in the context of the Italian, British, and Ethiopian empires. Avoiding partisan representations, which see nationalists in the vanguard of emancipatory politics, and impe…
This dissertation examines Britain's attempt to create and maintain a friendly independent state in South Arabia during the period from 1956 to 1967. After the evacuation from Suez in 1956 the Crown Colony of Aden became the centerpiece for British policy in the Middle East. The…
Progressive Arab nationalism was built upon a concept of emancipation. Emancipating states from imperialism, peasants from feudalism and creating truly independent and sovereign states. From 1952 to 1958, Arab nationalists aimed to free themselves from Western imperialism create…
This dissertation reintegrates the Mediterranean into the history of the development of the early modern British Empire. During the seventeenth century, the Mediterranean emerged as a distinct political, legal and commercial space within the wider currents of English expansion. …
This thesis argues that in the second half of the 19th century, the Iraqi provinces of the Ottoman Empire constituted a frontier of imperial contestation between the Ottoman and British empires. The Ottoman Empire sought establish political hegemony over these far-flung province…
With the prosecution for obscenity of the British publisher Henry Vizetelly in 1888 for publishing English translations of several of the novels of Emile Zola, the British government initiated what might be termed a ‘moral crusade’ to control the reading matter of its colonial s…
This dissertation explores the role of Freemasonry in the development of modern India, by bolstering the British Empire in India, and by informing the Indian nationalist movement. Freemasonry was an ideal imperial “cult”: it did not require that one apostatize one's religion, ye…
This dissertation examines the work of the Radcliffe Boundary Commission, which drew the Indo-Pakistani boundary during the 1947 partition of South Asia. Focusing on the division of Punjab, it explores the impact of the new border. This boundary-making effort was significant for…
In describing the experience of British Empire soldiers in the First World War, most scholars have focused only on the Western Front, ignoring the most important secondary theaters of Britain's war: the Sinai and Palestine. In these campaigns against the Ottoman Empire, there ca…
At the start of the twentieth century, British intelligence agents began seriously to venture to the region they called “Arabia,” drawn by both geopolitical concerns and the hope of finding in a proverbially mystical land the spiritual calm that eluded them at home. These compet…
This study examines the relationship of Winston Churchill to the British Empire in the broadest terms. It demonstrates by reference to Churchill's writings and actions that empire was not a sidelight of Churchill's life and thought, but rather formed a keystone for the understan…
This study covers two important aspects of the colonial settlement of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. First of all, it examines the origins of the mandate system, designed at the end of the First World War to replace German and Turkish rule in their own colonies with Allied con…
In this dissertation, I examine the transition period between Ottoman and British rule as experienced by the residents of Jerusalem, between the years 1912--1920. By treating Jerusalem as a mixed urban locale, consisting of Muslims, Jews and Christians of various ethnic and nati…
This dissertation argues that melodrama was a crucial mode for the representation of British imperialism within generically hybrid works of late Victorian fiction. Previous critics have noted the popularity of the melodramatic mode and mentioned its importance for imperial propa…