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This dissertation is a cultural and social history of concrete, the second most consumed material on earth after water. It explains how the industry emerged in the United States, with cement industrialists taking lessons from unlikely teachers, including cotton manufacturers, sc…
This dissertation charts an intellectual genealogy of internationalist visions of the reorganization of the imperial Russian space that were frustrated and foreclosed by the emergence of the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1922, surviving and continuing to develop in exile communi…
Why do great powers adopt expansionist foreign policies? Despite its great variety, much of the existing literature shares a common characteristic: that of seeing expansion as the centrally-driven and strategic extension of the state’s territorial domain. However, many important…
This dissertation examines conquering creole consciousness through the voluminous pastoral and ethnographic writings of Mota y Escobar (1546-1625), a first-generation elite criollo of Hispanic descent, who served as Bishop of Guadalajara-Nueva Galicia (1598-1607) and Tlaxcala-Pu…
The so-called “Company Paintings” or Kampani Kalam in Urdu and Hindi, developed in the Indian Subcontinent over the 18th and 19th centuries under the “patronage” of the East India Company as a result of British attempts to survey, record, and display the practices, people, archi…
The Unquenchable Fire examines how the United States outsourced the work and costs of imperialism through arms exports after the Vietnam War. As wartime contracts disappeared and government officials confronted new limits to interventionism, a devastating recession pushed defens…
This thesis utilizes academic articles and monographs to examine Nazi Germany’s academic discourse regarding the “Muslim World” between 1935—1941. I argue that prominent Nazi thinkers considered the “Muslim World” to be a rising power but disagreed whether Muslims would enable o…