Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians-merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers-left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by nati…
Why did the French Revolution lead to the crimes of the Terror, whereas the American Revolution brought forth a liberal democracy? Alexis de Tocqueville spent a lifetime trying to understand the paradox. This first book on the genesis of Tocqueville's Democracy in America consid…
This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics. It explores how the advancement of Soviet civil aircraft engineering during the 1950s technically triggered the globalization of the Co…
Image construction in translation has recently attracted the interest of scholars in Translation Studies (Doorslaer, Flynn & Leerssen 2016). Much of the discussion, however, has been on the target culture’s construction of the image of the Other. Rarely discussed is the construc…
This paper probes the history of the Temple Mount complex during the British Mandate for Palestine. Approaching this sacred space from three different perspectives--British, Arab, and Jewish--the paper examines how people and events surrounding the site contributed to the evolut…
Since September 11, 2001, the United States and our Western allies have become greatly concerned by the threat posed by "homegrown terrorists" and the individuals responsible for their radicalization. These extremists no longer need to travel abroad to join a terrorist group and…
Pearling provided the basis for economic prosperity for the port cities in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today. However, in the light of oil wealth, pearling has been relegated to the distant past. It is overshadowed by the pace and scale of c…
This dissertation studies the production, circulation, and diffusion of apocalyptic prognostications by the Moriscos in sixteenth-century Spain.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorism has been propagated as a seemingly unavoidable threat to our daily lives. However, the globally oriented anti-Western jihad movement peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s and has since been in decline. Acros…
In this dissertation, I assess the political, social and economic foundation, unfolding and impact the surveillance apparatus traced from Western surveillance blueprints French authorities implemented to monitor the Hajj from colonial Senegal beginning in 1895. I focus mainly on…
L'esclavage dans certaines régions de l'Algérie persista jusqu'à l'indépendance de cette contrée en 1962 alors même que le processus de son élimination fut enclenché bien avant la conquête d'Alger par les armées françaises en 1830. Nous considérons, en effet, les tentatives de l…
This dissertation treats nation building as a practical organizational accomplishment. It examines encounters between Irish Americans and Jewish Americans and their respective homelands to understand how national movements establish cooperation between the different "fragments" …