Why would a successful young novelist write the story of a failed poet told from the point of view of a sympathetic narrator, and why would this failed protagonist then become a role model for the next generation of litterateurs? Focusing on the last decades of the nineteenth ce…
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This dissertation introduces economic theory, modern microeconometric methods, and new microdata sources to the study of the economic history of the Middle East. In particular, it examines an intriguing phenomenon in this field: the stylized fact that non-Muslim minorities are b…
This dissertation examines the Congress for Cultural Freedom's activities in Africa from 1958 until the organization's demise in 1967. During the Cold War, U.S. policymakers attempted to use the cultural realm to gain the support of intellectuals in their ideological war with th…
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors associated with conversion to Protestant Christianity by Ethiopian Orthodox young adults in urban context. The research used qualitative interviews to explore particular elements of the Protestant gospel message and other soc…
The southwest coastal region of Bangladesh bears the mark of modernization, beginning with a high engineering water resource management, agricultural intensification and consequent integration into the global export market. The four-decade process of modernization has altered th…
Printing in the Arab world, unlike its European counterparts, only became regionally prevalent during the late nineteenth century. As such, studies on Arabic printing in Middle Eastern cities emphasize the press's late nineteenth-century modernizing role, particularly its standa…
This study attempts to assess the macro-social change process of industrialization and urbanization on the socio-cultural transformation of Saudi Arabia. The debate on how change is perceived and interpreted in Saudi Arabia is still unresolved. A number of studies have attempted…
This project documents otherwise neglected dimensions entailed in the assemblage and implementations of political theories, namely their fabrication through encounters with their material, local, and affective constituents. Rather than emanating from the West and migrating to th…
While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music, or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation examines the human reality and experience of …
This research examines the hierarchy of values that has operated in the modernization histories of Africa, with Ethiopia and Tanzania as case studies. Particular focus will be on analyzing the status that has been given to accessibility to food, and how African leadership has de…
In this dissertation, I set out to examine the process of agricultural modernization in Northern Nigeria from 1970 to 1984 using an overdetermined analysis. An overdetermined analysis is free of simple determinism, includes class and non-class factors to explain change, and exam…
The problem. The study explored the influence of the political, economic, and social factors on the development of the educational system in Ethiopia, covering the years 1000 B.C. to today. The research focused on the role played by the above three factors in promoting and limit…
This study is a detailed and two-pronged look of the cultural and political relations between indigenous social institutions and practices of highland farmers in Wärrä Himanu, South Wällo Administrative Zone, and successive regime forms of the “modernizing” state in Ethiopia. Wi…
Traditional communities in most Third World countries today are facing the influx of all industrialized economy which is leading to the introduction of new building technologies, infrastructure and modern communications. This has resulted in a change in the built environment of …
Following Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, nationalist movements arose in some—but not all—of the non-Russian republics in the Soviet Union. In the southern tier republics of Transcaucasia and Central Asia there was a regional discrepancy in the presence or absence of nationalist mo…
Kuwaiti society has been experiencing a huge socio-cultural change during the last three decades. While most of the social institutions have experienced changes, the political institution has been lagging behind this social transformation and has been maintained by the ruling el…
Sivil toplum kavramı uzun yıllardır tartışılan bir kavram olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Bakıldığında sivil toplum insanların kendi kendine bir araya gelerek toplumsal fayda üretebilmek adına yapılan çalışmaların bütünüdür. Söz konusu toplumsal fayda devletten bağımsız bir şekild…
Memory, Modernity and the Remaking of Republican Turkey: 1945-1960 explores the relationship between ideology and politics during a transformational period in 20th century Turkish history. During these years, NATO membership and the advent of multi-party democracy radically resh…
West Africa, enriched with natural resources, culture, philosophy, religion, etc., is geographically made up of the following nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and T…