This dissertation charts the relationship between British realism and landscape aesthetics in order to reframe the novel’s established connection to the rise of capitalism. The Lie of the Land argues that passages of landscape description mediate and disguise the history of Brit…
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Indigenous artisans of Northeast North America have produced shell beads for thousands of years, including wampum, best known for its place in the 17th century fur trade. By the mid-18th century, Euro-American settlers appropriated the production of wampum and other shell beads …
In Labor, Race & Visuality in Argentina’s Sugar Industry 1868-1904 I examine the relationship between racialization and mechanization in the growing sugar industry in Argentina’s northern province of Tucuman in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that the …
This dissertation seeks to explain the highly uneven pattern of economic development in Brazil during the 20th century. Stark development differences between the northern and southern regions of the country have long been a problem of concern to scholars and policymakers and hav…
The following research aim to understand the role of the state in the production of sacrifice zones accordingly to the recent academic debate on sacrifice zones as well as the approach of state spatiality and the production of space proposed by Neil Brenner. Specifically it stud…
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first one focuses on Colombia after 1850 and measures the impact of the expropriation of Church's assets on political violence. With yearly data on the number of battles per municipality, archival information on the reform, and dif…
This dissertation is a study of the mechanization of cotton spinning in turn-of-the-twentieth-century China. More specifically, it examines efforts made by the Chinese workers to keep imported spinning machines performing at maximum efficiency in their cotton mills. Such efforts…
This economic history and examination of the rubber products manufacturing industry in Peninsular Malaysia contributes to the subject of resource-based industrialization in the field of development studies. The development of the industry is traced from the 1920s to 2005 when th…
Son yüzyıllarda yaşanan teknik gelişmeler, insan hayatına ciddi derecede kon-for alanları sağlamakla birlikte geri dönüşü çok zor hatta mümkün olmayan pek çok yıkıma da neden olmuştur. Hızlı değişimler, sürekli tüketim, nüfus artışı, çevre kirliliği, insanların evrenin sahibi ve…
Carbon, Wyoming, occupied between 1868 and 1902, was the first established coal mining town along the Union Pacific Railroad in the state. Within the context of industrial expansion in the western U.S., the community at Carbon was intimately connected to larger 19th-century labo…
This dissertation is a study of the changing visual and spatial culture of Turkey during and after the so-called “Marshall Plan Years,” from 1947 to 1980. Looking at a series of cultural reconstructions, the dissertation traces the transformations that remade the visual, symboli…
This dissertation consists of three unrelated papers in labor economics. The first chapter documents the role of norms, both cultural and religious, in the fertility decisions of second-generation women in the US. Using two cohorts of immigrants (1970 and 2000s), I find that fer…
This is a study of the impact of international political relations on the domestic economic policy choices of an oil-exporting developing country with special reference to the case of Iran during 1973-1978. These years began with the four-fold increase in oil prices and ended in…
The dissertation examines the massive mobilization of female labor that accompanied export-oriented industrialization (EOI) through an exploration of the feminization of factory labor in Indonesia between 1970 and 1997, focusing primarily on the garment, plywood, textile, and au…
The evolution of the Syrian industrial bourgeoisie during the French Mandate and the first decade of Syrian independence was conditioned by overlapping economic, political, and economic factors. The most significant of these was the changing relationship between the industrialis…
The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of educators and employers regarding the role of vocational and technical education in the industrialization of Malaysia. The first population was all vocational and technical educators (N = 4,316) in public vocational an…
Japan is widely considered a "miracle" for its rapid industrialization during the post-war era. It is held as an example to emulate by the leaders of government and industry in many developing nations and has evoked jealousy among the leading Western industrial nations. Our unde…
This dissertation analyzes the industrialization and social class structures of less developed countries during the latest wave of economic globalization. Industrialization and social class have always been among the central topics in sociology. With the latest wave of economic …
This dissertation examines the consequences of commitments by private and public agents to behaviors and structures that promote learning for the relative success and continued growth of industrial and technology poles in developing countries. Going beyond conventional formulati…