South Korean participation in the Vietnam War (1964-1973) is like the United States’ endeavors in the Korean War (1950-1953), namely both became soon-forgotten wars. Based on bilingual research in the U.S. and South Korea, this dissertation attempts to shed new light on the Sout…
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French haute couture is an industry that has withstood the test of time. From its inception in 1858 at Charles Worth’s innovative and groundbreaking shop, haute couture has become the most highly respected and revered segment of the fashion industry for its intimate understandin…
Bertrand Russell visited China in late 1920 to teach philosophy at Peking University. He expected his sabbatical to relieve his stressful experience of the First World War. Instead, he entered China in the midst of what is now called the May Fourth Movement, a groundbreaking per…
Post-colonial theorists have analyzed the impact that colonization has on identity where the individual is not only stripped of its pre-existing self but is left to make sense of life after colonization. The repercussions of colonization lie in the individual’s inability to go b…
Popular conceptions of Adam Smith in the United States, especially since the advent of the Cold War, have depicted the great modern economist as a proponent of capitalism. A similar caricature has replaced the intellectual heritage he inaugurated. There is, however, a rich legac…
In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, which officially took place betw…
This dissertation analyzes the complexity of popular religious trends under a nominally secular government through the examination of prophecy during the French July Monarchy period (1830–1848). Throughout this era, several diverse individuals claimed to be the recipients of sup…
The purpose of this dissertation will be to show in what ways John Owen's theology of regeneration, the event or experience of which he deliberately described in realistic categories, in which something is infused into the believer which he did not have before, is both continuou…
The traditional Chinese and modernized Gregorian calendars represent vastly different ontics of time and have been framed by the Chinese government as being in intractable, existential conflict with one another. "The time of modernity" in general is regularly described as being …
President Biden's "America is back" pledge holds the potential to be put to the test with the ongoing crisis in Libya. The internationalization of the post-Ghaddafi Libyan breakdown, strained by great-power competition (GPC) dynamics, poses nonnegligible threats to the United St…
British Hong Kong was a “borrowed place living on borrowed time”, Richard Hughes, an Australian journalist, wrote in 1968. This thesis attested that the “1997 Question”, i.e. the perplexity stemming from the expiry of the New Territories Lease in 1997, had a considerable impact …
This project follows the process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Germany and the United States through the treatment of artwork produced under the Nazi regime at the official governmental level, in the press, academic circles, and among the wider public from the postwar era to t…
Nil Havzası’nın aşağı kıyıdaş ülkesi konumunda bulunan Mısır, havzadaki diğer ülkelerle karşılaştırıldığında, tarihsel süreçte Nil Nehri sularından en fazla yararlanan ülke olmuştur. Bu özellik, yeryüzündeki diğer nehir havzalarıyla karşılaştırıldığında istisnai durumlardan biri…
After the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, and the Soviet forces invading from the east, Polish forces were ordered to make their way to either the Hungarian or Romanian borders. These soldiers regrouped and fought for Poland’s freedom outside of its borders. The …
This dissertation places the works of Étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) in dialogue with those of Jean Bodin (1530-1601) in order to better understand how competing notions of human nature, freedom, and conceptual (not to mention, literal) boundaries of civic belonging and politi…
This study takes up discourses on atomic science and technology in the mid-twentieth century Koreas. By doing so, it demonstrates how, well before either North or South Korea was capable of developing a domestic nuclear program, atomic science served as a discursive channel for …
The 2018 National Defense Strategy prioritized great power competition (GPC) over countering terrorism, yet three years after its release, the Secretary of Defense continues to repurpose troops, missions, and resources for the multi-domain strategic environment. The current era …
The main objective of this dissertation is to describe the way the foreigner is linguistically represented in classical Egyptian cinema from its beginning in the 1920s to the mid-1960s and, hence, to determine to what extent this representation is stereotyped. To show this, I ca…
World War I saw the deployment of visual media propaganda on an unprecedented scale. British propaganda was far more nuanced and voluminous than the other belligerents during the conflict. Government agencies in Britain utilized the mechanism of visual presentation to bombard th…