colonialism

Based primarily on eighteenth-century criminal records from the Court of Aldermen in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), this dissertation explores the way in which demographic and economic constraints influenced colonial law, and details the effects of these forces on the female unde…

This study examines how space was imagined and written about in late colonial India. In particular, it considers how colonizing forces construct boundaries in order to contain perceived threats from the colonized, and how such boundaries determine the discursive representation o…

This dissertation examines the historical and geopolitical formation of the United Kingdom as represented in the novels of Sir Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth, Anna Maria Hall, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Problematizing conventional definitions of "regional" literature, the first chapt…

The “colonialism of language” explores how language is both a means (i.e., discourse or communicative action that the colonizer attempted to control and which facilitated the process of colonialism) and an object (i.e., the language varieties of the Other) of colonialism. This s…

The aim of this dissertation is to examine the development of the system of art education in Morocco during the French colonial Protectorate, 1912–1956. In this context, I will also explore the hypothesis that France, in its position as a ruling colonial power, used state sponso…

This dissertation develops a theory of culture which addresses the role cognition plays in the construction and perpetuation of ideologies and the role ideologies play in the formation of national identities and literatures. Using the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson as a …

This dissertation explores the socio-structural, historical and discursive transformations that made possible nationalist imaginings of colonial India or more specifically, Bharat, the dominant Hindu-Hindi term for the nation and the constitutional name for post-colonial India, …

In recent years, historians have argued that the Soviet Union was a “maker of nations.” The Soviet state fostered incipient nation-statehood among its non-Russian minorities through the establishment of national territories, the promotion of native elites and languages, and the …

This dissertation argues that Filipino nationalists in California from 1919 to 1946 invoked discourses about the nation in a larger strategy to constitute community. It analyzes how elites tried to define the boundaries of identity and community, instill their standards, and com…

This dissertation traces the evolution of modern medical institutions alongside that of Russian and Soviet policies towards indigenous Central Asians, from the establishment of the Imperial colony through the mid-1930s. Based on two years of archival research in Uzbekistan and R…

Commissioned in 1867 and installed in 1874, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s (1827-1875) Les Quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphère céleste (The Four Parts of the World Supporting the Celestial Sphere), also referred to as the Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde (Fountain of the F…

The psychological literature conducted in Guam on indigenous practices of resistance to colonialism is nonexistent. This dissertation responds to this absence in the literature by conducting an exploratory hermeneutic study on the lived experience of members of Chamoru rights gr…

To appreciate fully the magnitude of the changing Nigerian women's images in creative literature a thorough search into the history, myths, anthropology, economics, social and political customs was undertaken. Scholarly works by Nigerians and other Africanists were investigated …

This dissertation explores the impact on the Algerian Jews of French colonialism, the French-Algerian War, and decolonization. In 1962, the year of Algeria's independence from France, almost all of the approximately 130,000 Algerian Jews left the Maghreb for France as part of a …

This study documents and analyzes a tradition of British captivity narratives, a body of texts produced primarily in London and centered on the detention of European travelers in a variety of foreign lands. Although the project concentrates on eighteenth-century texts, it begins…

The Civilizing Mission was a powerful ideology that affected French domestic and colonial policy throughout the nineteenth century. While most examinations of this fascinating if problematic idea have focused on the heyday of what the French called the Mission Civilisatrice in t…

Through a comparative analysis of colonialism in the New World and Holy Land with attention to how politics influence literary production, I examine the process by which settler societies transform theological narratives into national histories to justify their occupation of for…

In the late-nineteenth century, a belief emerged in Great Britain which posited that the "Anglo-Saxon race" had descended biologically from the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. According to this creed, Britain's predominating position among nations was due to its identity as God's Cho…

This dissertation focuses on slaves and peasants as self-consciousness actors in northwestern Sierra Leone between 1896 to 1956. During this period, which covers almost the entire duration of British colonial rule in the region, these subaltern groups used covert and violent act…

In the summer of 1925 Syria erupted in revolt against French mandatory rule. By mid-1925, Syria had been under direct French rule for exactly five years. Contrary to all the expectations of the mandatory power, the uprising began in an apparently remote and supposedly backward r…