In this project, I will address the misconceptions that have surrounded the strategic aims of the Confederate States Navy pertaining to the ironclad warship. It is commonly understood among historians that the ironclads built by the Confederacy were laid down with the intention …
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El propósito principal de este estudio es explicar tres trilogías de las escritoras Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, y Ana María Matute. La primera, Trilogía de memoria, de Josefina R. Aldecoa, Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994), La fuerza del destino (…
This dissertation aims to study the gap between the theory and practice of the framework implemented by the United Nations Security Council 1325 (UNSCR 1325), which concerns the importance of women’s role in peacebuilding. Within the case study of South Sudan, this thesis analyz…
As you read this sentence, know that a riot is occurring somewhere in the world. Elsewhere, or perhaps in the same location, government forces are constructing a barricade and a politician is being abducted. These types of politically motivated conflictual events are always occu…
A common feature of modern civil wars is the tendency of rebel organizations to factionalize and fragment. Yet how can we explain patterns of factionalism and fragmentation in civil wars? How do normal, private disagreements within rebel organizations become full-fledged dispute…
Johnson's Island prison was located three miles from Sandusky and acted as the primary holding facility for captured Confederate officers throughout the Civil War. During its four years of operation, more than 10,000 rebel prisoners were held there. Unlike other northern prisons…
While the origin of the Arab Spring is well documented in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, the role of press photography in presenting these conflicts is not. Images taken during a conflict often follow a particular narrative that comes to define how we remember a conflict. Cons…
The central goal of this project is to better understand the relationship between civil war and repression at each phase of the "civil-war life-cycle," which is composed of the escalation and onset of civil war, the war itself, and the post-war period. The project then seeks to …
This dissertation provides an explanatory framework for why contemporary rebel groups experience different outcomes in civil war. I place these different fates along a spectrum of survival and demise to capture a wider range of outcomes beyond success or failure, rebellion or no…
This dissertation examines the reasons that some non-state actors choose to engage in nonviolent resistance while others, with similar goals, engage in violent rebellion. I then look why, among groups that do use violence, some see longer and more intense conflicts than others. …
There have been some 163 foreign occupations since 1900. In many cases, military occupations have led to bloody and protracted resistance, while in most cases occupiers faced little resistance at all. This dissertation seeks to answer the puzzle: under what conditions do foreign…
Cotton was the most important commodity in the economy of the industrialized Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, as vital then as petroleum is today. It was widely believed that a prolonged interruption of the cotton supply would lead not merely to a severe economic dep…
The first decade after Tajikistan became independent was characterized by a 5 year long civil war and a difficult peace process. Just as Tajikistan was beginning to recover, the US began the invasion of Afghanistan on Tajikistan's southern border. Periodically, insurgents from A…
This study focuses on the efforts of the Confederate States of America to obtain recognition from the community of nations. The study provides a comprehensive examination and synthesis of the existing literature, as well as re-examination of the original sources. Confederate dip…
Somalia, located in the Horn of Africa at the juncture of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean experienced social cleavage and civil war since 1990. In 1994 sporadic warfare continues and the nation does not yet have a viable government. This dissertation argues that Somalia's misfortun…
In the mid-nineteenth-century United States and Europe the idea arose that "race" is a matter of biology, internal "essence," a thing having real existence and permanence. Fifty years earlier, the Enlightenment had seen race as an ephemeral function of climate, geography, and mo…
The history of the Civil War has been a point of contention across the nation and in academia, regarding how it is remembered as well as who controlled this memory in years past. This thesis utilizes frameworks from regionalized studies of Civil War commemoration and applies it …
During the Guatemalan civil war (1962-1996), different forms of anonymity enabled members of the organizations of the social movement, revolutionary militants, and guerrilla combatants to address the popular classes and rural majorities, against the backdrop of generalized milit…
This dissertation analyzes the lives of southern antebellum and Civil War-era Jewish women. In addition to uncovering the historical experiences of these women, this dissertation argues that existing methodologies in American Jewish and southern women's history obscure the reali…