This dissertation investigates instances of identity building in the Americas at the close of the nineteenth century, particularly as they were expressed through the built environment. Three cities serve as case studies for the various ways in which leaders in the Americas built…
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This dissertation critically analyzes and interprets the Italian migration-themed film production of the last decade [2010-2020], to provide an updated picture of the current audiovisual panorama concerning the topic of migration to and in Italy. More precisely, this thesis focu…
From the late sixteenth through the nineteenth century, Great Britain expanded across the globe building an empire in diverse regions of the world on every livable continent. British engagement in overseas expansion initiated new cross-cultural exchanges on an unprecedented scal…
Daltônico: The Myth of Brazil’s “Racial Democracy,” explores the construction of Brazilian national identity throughout the Twentieth century, aided by the analysis of three central cultures and ethnicities that are integral to an understanding of Brazilian race and identity. By…
According to Galina Krinitskaya, most acutely, the Russian national idea "manifested itself inRussian public thought and literature, through which the historical forecast of the future worldorder, and the role of Russia in this process, was revealed." The 1917 Revolution and the…
The imagination of the Chinese nation is a process continuing up to the present. As the Ethnic Classification Project was significant in the initial construction of the Chinese nation, education played an essential role in the latter part of the story. This paper focuses on the …
Higher education has become connected to the political debate around independence in Scotland, playing a significant role in both regular elections for the Scottish Parliament and in the debate around the 2014 Independence Referendum. Using the nationalism-social policy nexus as…
The study examined three factors in order to demonstrate and prove the effectiveness of implementing oral history in teaching social studies: teachers’ perceptions, teachers’ familiarity, and oral history’s effectiveness as a teaching approach. The goal of the study was to answe…
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…
Throughout the last decade, the United Kingdom has undergone significant political, social, and cultural changes. In the last few years, British politics has become increasingly divided, with the 2016 membership of the European Union referendum revealing deep chasms within the e…
This treatise is about the Filipino composer Col. Antonino Buenaventura and his 1969 Viola Sonata. It discusses the Sonata’s importance in the Philippines’ search for a distinctive national identity. It also offers information on how to perform the Viola Sonata and suggested bow…
In France there is a special genre of popular music called chanson engagée that is explicitly socially and politically engaged. This designation poses questions about the nature of music and politics, for example: what does it mean for a music to be socially and politically enga…
Civil war and military incompetence were a mainstay in England for nearly two decades by the start of Edward III’s majority reign in 1330. Moreover, money contracts were beginning to replace the feudal oath, and the gentry and merchants were gaining more economic power. England …
This public history capstone is a research paper that also examines the use of research within the public history field. Within the project, Shannon LeRoy argues that cultural and social factors such as gender and social standing contributed to Roman literary censorship to the p…
At the time of writing, the expectation for a peace settlement on the Korean peninsula is greater than ever due to ongoing inter-Korean summits as well as the historic encounters between the two leaders of the US and North Korea. Although the second Hanoi DPRK-US summit in Febru…
In the 1920s and early 1930s, elites in the public and private sectors in Mexico and the United States who had diverse political and economic interests circulated constructs of national identity by way of writings, photographs, fine art, and popular arts. However, there were inc…
This dissertation presents a multifaceted examination of the complex sociopolitical contexts of contemporary popular and classical music in Russia. By attending to the competing expectations of Russian creators, government officials, impresarios, critics, and listeners, it exami…
The mutually constitutive relationship between constructions of social identity and collective memory is mediated by cultural tools. Across four studies, I explored the relationship between ethnic and national identity and engagement with the final report of the Commission for H…
This dissertation is concerned with the question of whether nations grieve, whether the behaviour they exhibit in the wake of loss can be said to constitute grief. Initially exploring the concepts of both grief and nation in order to establish the feasibility of national grief a…