This dissertation explains how and why concern for the food supply in urban centers contributed to social and political conservatism in Morocco, a theocracy based on divine kingship and patriarchal relations. Millers and butchers were key agents of urban food provisioning, so co…
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This dissertation confronts misconceptions regarding Jean-Paul Sartre's relation to communism in order to clear the way for a thorough appreciation of his analysis of colonialism and his stand against torture during the Algerian War. I emphasize how the tumultuous collapse of bo…
This is a genealogical study on the "woman's question" in Egypt. This being so, its purpose is not necessarily to refine the existing definitions of the question or to provide an answer to it. The aim of this study, rather is to discuss how the "woman's question" as a discourse …
By reevaluating the contributions of Galandou Diouf and his efficacy as a politician, this dissertation recasts Diouf as a major player in early twentieth-century Senegalese politics. Galandou Diouf's career has rested uneasily between Blaise Diagne and Lamine Guèye, documented …
Ragamala paintings, which depict personifications of musical modes, were among the most popular courtly painting genres in northern India, but remain poorly understood. Because of their general conservatism over the course of some four hundred years, they are often studied only …
This dissertation analyzes the debates that preceded and followed the "Crémieux Decree"' of 1870, which granted full French citizenship rights to the Jews of Algeria, taking the Decree as an example of how core ideologies of colonizing societies could be transformed in fundament…
Contemporary Western modernization in the East reifies many aspects of classic European colonialism. Modernization largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the so-called “developing” nations of the East. The colonial hi…
Theorists of higher education such as Friere. Asante and Dei have emphasized that colonizing Eurocentric knowledge admits of only one view of the world, judging all others as epistemologically invalid. These authors have proposed ways in which this dominant view of higher educat…
This dissertation examines the lives of Tunisian veterans who fought for the French during the First and Second World Wars. My thesis breaks new ground in that it attempts to place the story of Tunisian veterans in the wider global context of the World Wars and decolonization. E…
Italy's modern empire, a modest collection of colonies and concessions on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, lasted roughly from 1896 to 1949. The empire's character reflected problems Italy faced as a young nation, including high emigration, a weak military, and a disadvantageo…
In this dissertation, I propose a new understanding of the relationship between the inhabitants of the metropole and the colonies, by showing how a number of major Twentieth-Century French and Francophone authors depict technology as a mediator, both productive and destructive, …
My dissertation examines, within Fascist propagandist literature and cinema of the 1930s, the hybrid figures of mulattoes--the offspring of interracial unions between Italian men and native women of Italy's African colonies--and Levantines--white Italian immigrant merchants and …
My dissertation is a project that assesses recent critical claims that The Tempest is set in the New World. By examining the most likely literal and discursive settings for the play, I find that the characters, atmosphere, tone, and in fact the entire dramatic effect of the play…
This study examines Tocqueville's account of national particularity, and of the nation as a political association. I aim to show that Tocqueville's frequent and multifaceted references to the nation coalesce into a systematic conception of nationhood that goes to the heart of hi…
Because of their relevance to the modern world, the topics of ethnicity, cultural performance, and civic affiliation are central issues of the current scholarship on the ancient Near East. My dissertation therefore analyzes the formation of Greek civic performances among Syrians…
This dissertation explores the ways in which France's position as an imperial power shaped French pronatalism, a political movement organized to address widespread anxieties about the nation's declining birthrate during the Third Republic (1870-1940). Though historians have conv…
This dissertation looks at the relationship between educational achievement and power in the Anglophone Caribbean, with particular emphasis on Belize. Girls are outperforming boys at every level of education, but women still have higher unemployment rates and hold the lowest pay…
This dissertation is a comparative project which examines the missionary translation of indigenous language and culture in two regions of the world which were colonized by Europeans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: eastern Australia and northwestern America…
This dissertation examines the complex process of identity formation in the town of Kétu located in southeastern Bénin Republic. Regional social and political instability during the nineteenth century pulled Kétu into a variety of regional identities defined by new ethnic, relig…