Nineteenth century

In “Lucretia Mott: Theology is Reform's Foundation” I articulate the theology of Lucretia Coffin Mott, a nineteenth-century Quaker preacher who was one of the leaders in the abolitionist movement, and a founder of the woman's rights movement in the U.S. Although she has been stu…

The present dissertation is the first research, devoted exclusively to the Russian abolition of the slave trade in the Caucasus in the nineteenth century. It has shown that the Russian abolitionism was produced by a peculiar fusion of two separate streams of thought in Russian s…

Josè Rizal, a nineteenth century Philippine propagandist, lived as he died: dedicated to creating a national identity through anti friar propaganda, he would be executed by a firing squad at the age of 29 for sedition against Spain's colonial empire. In his short life, he earned…

In the early 1840s architect Thomas Ustick Walter presented a series of six lectures before audiences in Philadelphia and later in Washington. Based on his extensive study in recent architectural histories, aesthetic philosophies, and archaeological findings, the “Lectures” exhi…

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…

On Saturday July 2, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau took a revolver to the Washington train station and fired twice at James A. Garfield with the intention of “removing” the president. The government, press, and pulpit responded immediately, offering an array of texts about the meaning…

The historian of Southeast Asian Buddhism faces many questions regarding Buddhist identity. Using the case study of Arakan (western Burma), two critical questions are pursued in this dissertation: why did Theravada Buddhism emerge as a religious identity for the majority of Arak…

Le Maghreb ne peut être assimilé à l'Orient parce que, contrairement à lui, il est géographiquement localisable et ne peut être nié dans son historicité. À son contact, les fantasmes romantiques, déjà confrontés à la naissance des principes réalistes, s'effondrent, heurtés à une…

This study analyzes how literary representations of the Jew participate in the construction of Anglo-Jewish identity during the nineteenth century. While previous studies have focused on Gentile writers and the cultural assumptions informing their works, I consider the responses…

This dissertation examines the body of literature concerning the actor-turned-assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The literature contains conflicting accounts of Booth's character, political beliefs and motivations, and theatrical career. On one end of the spectrum he is depicted an id…

In the United Kingdom, the tradition of the wind band is primarily found in the military. Great Britain, in 1845, published almost no music for wind band. It fell upon each bandmaster to compose or arrange suitable music for the regiment's band. Carl Boose, bandmaster of the Sco…

This dissertation is a social history of foundlings—abandoned babies—in nineteenth-century New York City. Because foundlings were traditionally understood to be the unwanted babies of unmarried mothers, the stigma of illegitimacy contributed to the decision of private charities …

In France, tuberculosis was perceived as a social problem as early as the 1830s and 1840s, well before bacteriology ratified the notion of contagion and identified the tubercle bacillus. Eventually, by 1900, a national crusade of doctors, hygienists, philanthropists, and public …

This work addresses aspects of narration and style in the fiction of the Hebrew modernist writer Uri-Nissan Gnessin (1879-1913). It draws the outlines of Gnessin's modernist identity by examining how the system of narration and representation in his fiction deviates from a preva…

The dissertation is an account of archaeological research conducted in the Chalawa Bend area, within the Kano region of northern Nigeria. The research combined the use of archaeological methods with historical interpretation. The purpose of the research was to determine whether …

In 1833 Athens presented a miserable picture. The fights of the War of Independence against Turkey (1821-1827) had left a desolated town. Athens, with the meager population of 4,000, was proclaimed the capital of newly-independent Greece. Two young architects, Stamatios Kleanthe…

Taking sterotypical notions of the Orient (here understood as the Arab/Islamic world) as departure point, this dissertation examines the question of change in the context of cross-cultural representations. The dissertation focuses in particular on French cultural representations…

This study examines the extraordinarily prevalent images of oriental women in eighteenth and nineteenth century French and English literature and painting. Although many works have addressed the development of orientalism in this period, there has not been a study specifically d…

The dissertation examines the history of the Jewish community of Tangier, Morocco, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It portrays the growth of the community from a small settlement through its independence in 1798 from the rabbinical authority o…

Sectarianism, like nationalism, must be historicized. "Fantasies of the Possible: Community, History and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire" is a study of religious identity and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon. Contrary to both colonial and national…