This dissertation examines the connections between global capitalism, modern medicine, and empire through a close study of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals during the interwar years. As one of the leading drug companies in East Asia at the time, Hoshi embodied Japan's imperial aspirations,…
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Following the Sepoy Rebellion (1857), India's architecture came to play a key role in Britons' quest for knowledge and comprehension of India and Indians. For this reason, British perceptions of the subcontinent's architecture are intimately and foundationally linked to Britons'…
Empires may be dead; however memories of empire are alive and well. The list of incidents involving the remembrance and contested memories of imperial experiences across the globe include every modern empire that has fallen in the last century and resonate in almost every nation…
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…
I propose that William Faulkner's literary imagination is charged by a Jewish sensibility rooted in reverence for the Bible as a text that is as vital and relevant in his time as in any since its composition. The Hebrew Bible's narrative method of compiling, redacting, doubling,…
Prior to the addition of Egypt to the imperial state of Rome, the presence and influence of Roman culture in Egypt was not as strong as it was in other regions surrounding the Mediterranean. Under Augustus’ rule, Egypt was added to Rome’s growing empire and the grain which grew …
This dissertation explores specific episodes in the history of Byzantine Christian missions into foreign lands between the fourth century and the ninth century. According to tradition, this period brought about Eastern Orthodoxy's largest expansion to date as Byzantine Christian…
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…
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…
In eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, sailors occupied a paradoxical place in the national imagination. They were idealized as the heroic defenders of the nation, yet they were also stigmatized as brutish, misanthropic, and promiscuous. Naval officers described th…
The dissertation undertakes a detailed analysis of a series of parliamentary acts which occasioned numerous and dramatic transformations of the meanings and institutions of British citizenship in the twentieth century. This is followed by a close reading of personal narratives b…
This dissertation analyzes how images of suffering bodies—violated women's bodies in India and starving bodies in Ireland—have been mobilized within competing narratives to define and redefine the British empire, its ideological investments, and modes of anti-colonial resistance…
The United States routinely uses military power to impose grand plans for peacekeeping and nation-building. From Korea to Iraq, the U.S. military has been a driving force in this era of American Empire. Given this empire's global reach, what are its local impacts? Crime and envi…
This dissertation explores the role of Freemasonry in the development of modern India, by bolstering the British Empire in India, and by informing the Indian nationalist movement. Freemasonry was an ideal imperial “cult”: it did not require that one apostatize one's religion, ye…
My project draws on immigration history, urban social history, gender history, and the new cultural history of national identity, race, and empire. Based on four years of research in French archival and published sources, the dissertation explores the impact on the port city of …
The Sibylline Oracles are collection of ancient pagan, Jewish, and Christian prophecies which were composed in Greek hexameter and attributed to an ancient Greek prophetess named Sibyl. While few of the pagan Sibylline Oracles survive, an extensive collection of Jewish and Chris…
In the nineteenth century, geophysics and empire building developed in tandem. As a result, empirical science could utilize the imperial structure to conduct research on a worldwide scale. Scientific motives for such studies included the need to confront both weaknesses in the i…
Nineteenth-century colonial photographs of workers on tea plantations in India and Sri Lanka – with women in saris gently plucking leaves from lush bushes and men in sarongs operating heavy industrial machinery – are powerful symbols of a chain of production within the British E…
This dissertation concerns the relation of the English female body to national representation in narratives about the British Empire from the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century. Chapters on English fictional and historical writings about the Indian Mutiny of 1857; E. M. F…