The First World War spanned continents, mobilized vast resources and populations, and initiated new modes of contact within and among empires. For the British and the French the war brought colonial troops and supplies to Europe, involved fighting for colonies in Africa and Asia…
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After French colonization of Algeria in 1830, the expansion of France into additional colonies was a slow process. By 1900, few new colonies had been added to the French Empire and significant interest in colonization was limited to 10,000 men, the colonialists, who dedicated th…
In the British Colonial Service, to be a successful administrator, certain expectations must be met. These involved clarity of dispatches, keeping the CO fully informed of development in the dependency and cultivating a healthy working relationship between the governor and his s…
In the first decade of their occupation of the former Ottoman territories of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in current-day Libya, the Italian colonial administration established a system of indirect rule in the Cyrenaican town of Ajedabiya under the leadership of Idris al-Sanusi, a …
This dissertation traces the competing forces of antisemitism and Jewish civic activism in French colonial Algeria from the 1870 Crémieux decree to the end of World War II. The dissertation centers on the experience of Algerian Jews and their evolving identity as citizens as the…
Hazardous Crossings: The Transatlantic Figure in American Print, 1784-1855 examines how transatlantic African and Jewish bodies in print provoked anxieties over the instability of the republic's rhetorical, racial and territorial borders. By focusing on the figure of the Atlanti…
This dissertation is a study of imperial epistemology—the Russian Empire's attempts to produce useful knowledge about the Kazakh steppe, and the complex interrelationships between geographic, ethnographic, and statistical accounts of the region and imperial power. The dissertati…
The following dissertation traces the convergence of science, culture, and politics in Portugal’s most important tropical colonies—Goa, India and Bahia, Brazil. It shows how contradictions between an idealized colonial order and the exigencies of settlement patterned debates ove…
Can local colonial institutions continue to affect people's lives today, nearly 50 years after decolonization? Can meaningful differences in local institutions persist within a single set of national incentives? In this dissertation I answer this question in the affirmative. I b…
As France expanded its empire in North Africa, French artists, writers and explorers traveled to Algeria in order to gain artistic inspiration and greater understanding of the culture, geography and inhabitants of the new colony. This dissertation places music within the context…
Scientists have proposed that Haiti should relocate its capital to avoid another catastrophic earthquake in Port-au-Prince, projected to happen in about thirty years. Haiti still suffers the effects of colonialism in the socio-economic structures throughout society as well as po…
The first thing considered in discourse that is focused upon the notion of publishing is paper and that which is utilized to create words upon it, ink. Secondly, the book comes to mind. This research project illuminates the origins of publishing in Sénégal from a socio-cultural …
Tracing the history of masculinity is a crucial exercise in understanding complex structures of postcolonial relations. This thesis attempts to examine the informal influence of masculinity (defined as possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate …
This dissertation explores how Dutch anxieties over the loss of imperial hegemony in Southeast Asia evolved into a transnational and transoceanic project of colonial control during a time of increasing political unrest and rapid cultural change within the Netherlands East Indies…
To contribute to a better understanding of conditions that affect the development of democracy in the Arab-Islamic world this study focuses on Jordan. It identifies and assesses a number of internal and external factors that have contributed to or inhibited the course of democra…
In this dissertation I examine the interweaving of the Russian colonial legacy into Uzbek historical fiction produced between 1918 and 1936. Through a study of four major texts, Hamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy's The Rich Man and the Servant (1918), Abdurauf Fitrat's Abulfayzkhon (1924),…
In 1882, the year Joyce and Woolf were born, England, yielding to the double pressure of the Irish Problem and the threat of a nationalist uprising in Egypt, occupied Egypt. Reading Egypt as a charged site of sexual and textual subversion in Joyce's and Woolf's last works makes …
This dissertation examines the history of French colonialism in Morocco from an environmental perspective by studying the impact of French rule on the Gharb, an agricultural region to the north of Rabat. As part of what they saw as being their "civilizing mission" in Morocco, th…
The establishment of museums in India during the nineteenth century was unmatched elsewhere in the British Empire. Between 1814 and 1910, more than a dozen major museum projects were undertaken in India. There were also countless smaller museums, which emerged not only in the ci…