Las Vegas is a city of duplicates; it appears at first only complicated. Buildings on The Strip duplicate neighboring buildings, implicate antecedent versions of themselves, and replicate other cities. The multiplication of duplicate forms can be explicated (unfolded) to reveal …
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In studies of early New England architecture, Southeastern Massachusetts and Plymouth Colony have received significantly less attention than the Massachusetts Bay Colony and region. This study aims to shed some new light on early houses in this region, through a synthetic analys…
This project centers set design as the primary aesthetic, economic, and sociopolitical driver of the sitcom genre’s emergence and development during the first half of the twentieth century. My work treats sitcom set design as a category of historical architecture that can be (an…
This thesis examines material culture and female participation in the British and American anti-slavery campaigns from the 1780s to 1865. It explores the production, distribution and use of abolitionist material culture, within a female transatlantic framework. It considers the …
Why has the international community refrained from intervention in the Turkish-Kurdish conflict for two decades and why have several interventions taken place in the Iraqi-Kurdish war? The conflict literature has not found an adequate answer to this question, mostly, I argue, du…
This dissertation consists of two essays examining the role of foreign and domestic investors using data from the Jakarta Stock Exchange. The first essay examines foreign contribution on domestic market microstructure. In this essay, we examine whether foreign investors' presenc…
This dissertation investigates changing state policies toward immigrants in Germany, Japan, Canada, and Malaysia. A number of rights have been extended to immigrants in the post WWII era and much of this progress is attributable to international human rights norms. Nonetheless, …
During the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961), development became an essential part of the strategic vision of containment in the Middle East. In 1953, Eisenhower attempted to use a plan created by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United Nations c…
The end of the Cold War and the dawn of the information age have been characterized by increasing communication and decreasing cooperation among different interest groups (ethnic, political, religious, etc.) around the world. Internal conflicts like the recent Bosnian and Rwanda…
International nonproliferation efforts that are implemented by the international nonproliferation community to prevent nuclear proliferation dates back to the 1950's. While these efforts have helped ensure the vast majority of nations decide against pursuing a nuclear weapons pr…
Violence against women has been recognized as a significant worldwide human rights issue and public health problem. Women of reproductive age may be particularly at risk, and pregnancy may trigger or escalate violence. Using data available from Demographic and Health Surveys on …
Material reminiscent of an Aegean-style culture, which was distinct from that of the indigenous population, appeared in southern Canaan some time near the beginning of the 12th century B.C.E. Scholars have long associated this material with the arrival of a group of newcomers, t…
In this dissertation, the objective has been to explain the variance in trade policy and trade-related institutional outcomes across countries and over time. First, the study of ten episodes during which trade policy came to the Spanish and Turkish governments' agenda between la…