Native and non-native: colonial urbanization and the legal foundations of identity -- Identity and social structure in interwar Dar es Salaam -- Posing the urban question: war, state intervention, and the creation of urban entitlement -- Continental shift: civilization, racial t…
This paper will share the story of J. W. K. Kaualilinoe, a writer of the Hawaiian language newspapers. These newspapers continue to be a focal point of study as they fuel cultural resurgence, language revitalization, and Hawaiian identity. Newspaper columns have become repositor…
Yun Ch’i-ho lived through the most turbulent epochs of modern Korea as an embodiment of diverse intellectual responses to Japanese colonialism, at times as an international student, a civil official, the principal of a vocational school and a religious advocate. As a Korean inte…
This dissertation argues that the defeat of the Second Republic in the Civil War (1939) and the subsequent dictatorship (1939–1975) disrupted a nation-building process in Spain due to the hegemonic power of National Catholicism, but the repressed identities —centralists and peri…
This dissertation scrutinizes how American Exceptionalism evolved from a collection of Christian and English legends around 1776 into today’s well-organized narrative central to Americans’ self-perception and political discourse. It is based upon an extensive qualitative study o…
The most commonly ignored doctrine in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is his defense of his own critical methodology. This dissertation analyzes Kant’s statements on method in the “Discipline of Pure Reason” and a series of lectures from the 1760s and 1770s to prepare the way for…
This dissertation looks at the American Revolution from a new perspective, which is a Loyalist perspective, and from a new interpretation, which explains the domestic conflicts in the American Revolution by exploring the cultural presuppositions that shaped Loyalist and Patriot …
In England during the early 19th century, women wrote popular texts of political economy. A major function of those texts was to popularize the thought of prominent political economists. This thesis compares the writings of four female popularizers—Maria Edgeworth, Jane Haldiman…
Conservative thought has a complex relationship between principles and expediency; conservative intellectuals read history in line with their needs. This dissertation traces the construction of “conservatism” as a political identity in a nation of normative liberalism. Conservat…
This dissertation revolves around a central observation that, although the methodological differences among Greek mathematical writings are striking, these differences do not lie primarily along lines of subject matter or time period. Almost all mathematical works fall clearly i…
The state of Levantine Marxists today is one of exhaustion on both the political and intellectual fronts. Things have not always been this way. In the 1960's through the 1970's the Leftist scene was a vibrant one in terms of critical intellectual production and political activit…
This thesis is an inter-disciplinary project incorporating history, philosophy, sociology, theology and political analysis. It looks at highly significant, yet little researched, aspects of the intellectual history of Colombian sociologist and political leader Orlando Fals-Borda…
This research examines British intellectual debates on warfare throughout the mid-20th century. The thesis identifies different discourses that emerged as a result of the changes in international relations and military technology at this time. It posits that intellectual contrib…
A full study of the conception of wilāya in a variety of juridical trends, theological schools, and mystical doctrines across the Islamic world in general, and in the Shīʿa intellectual history in particular, is too ambitious a project to undertake in one thesis. Therefore, the …
