Nineteenth century

Jerusalem is, by many standards, a small dusty town in a land torn by conflict. Because of its historical connection to the beginnings of three great religions, however, it has come to assume a very prominent position. Most recently, it has occupied the center stage of the Israe…

This study examines the conquest and control of the Sudan by the Mehmet Ali dynasty from its beginnings in 1820 to around 1870. It addresses the Ottoman-Egyptian invasion as a form of colonial conquest. But this colonization of the Sudan was quickly complicated and circumscribed…

This dissertation examines gift books in the context of the social, literary, and print landscape of the antebellum United States, contending that the books are key sites for examining the intersection of commercial, political, and sentimental interests. While gift books frequen…

Examining Cordier's nineteenth-century ethnographic busts, I argue that their contemporary exhibition must include the contexts of their creation and early display. Curators in the twenty-first century approach his works as celebrations of visual difference motivated by curiosit…

This study examines the effect of the policies of the government on peasant land tenure during the mid-nineteenth century. According to the literature on rural Egypt, the government harshly exploited the peasants while paying virtually no attention to their welfare. The result o…

This project centers on the city of Patna in northeastern India, today the capitol of the state of Bihar. Because of its status as a provincial center for British colonialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Patna does not represent a major facet of the stu…

As the birthplace of the Naqshbandiyya, Yasaviyya, and Kubrawiyya, Central Asia has received a significant amount of scholarly attention in the field of Sufi Studies, though the study of the nineteenth century is relatively underdeveloped. While scholars have done much to demons…

Caravan porters were vital to the functioning of trade and transportation throughout precolonial and early colonial Sub-Saharan Africa. In nineteenth century East Africa, the world's largest supplier of ivory. Lens of thousands of caravan porters carried ivory to the coast from …

Between her debut as a public elocutionist in 1883, introduced by the revered abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and her retirement from the stage in 1919, to join Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, Henrietta Vinton Davis was considered by many to be the lead…

This thesis analyses women's contribution to the development of a progressive middle-class identity in the period 1830 to 1860. Using Leeds as a case study, it argues that the ideals of civic virtue, service and the 'civilising mission' lying at the heart of this identity played…

This thesis is an exploration of the relationship between Anglican clergymen and the inhabitants of Norfolk's rural parishes in the nineteenth century. It considers the potential impact clergymen could have upon a number of areas of secular life: on education as school managers,…

During the final decades of the nineteenth century girls' culture flourished. As recent scholarship has shown, this culture pivoted on an engagement with fiction and particularly the periodical press. Magazines such as the Girl's Own Paper and the Monthly Packet provided spaces …

The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the different ways in which naturalist fiction was parodied in France at the end of the nineteenth century. It demonstrates first of all the validity of approaching naturalist literature through the medium of parody by defining and explai…

This dissertation describes the emergence of a modern urban culture in late nineteeth century Punjab. Transformations in the regional political economy and accelerating patterns of urbanization produced a distinctly urban social formation in the context of the entrenchment of a …

My dissertation argues that past examinations of West African slave systems have over-emphasized the importance of social, linguistic and cultural marginalization, highlighted by a lack of access to the enslaving society's kinship networks, as the defining factors of slavery in …

Amazons break the culturally encoded feminine silence when they enter the masculine spheres of battle and governance. They may be either warriors or women, but not both. Their androgyny explodes the male-female polarity: they are both and neither. The Amazons become a third opti…

The Victorian era paved the way for the emancipation of the modern British woman. The women who fought for the parliamentary vote, especially those who were imprisoned and experienced the torture of forcible feeding, eventually won their cause. Women who opposed enfranchisement …

My dissertation is an exploration of the Nizamiye court system during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Though one of the more ambitious state projects launched in the framework of the Tanzimat reforms, the Nizamiye judicial system stands out as an understudied cha…

This doctoral thesis, under the title "Territorial articulation in insular spaces: terrestrial communications in the Canary Islands from the XVI to the XIX centuries" , studies the road network in the light of its primitive structure, from the original settlements to the end of …

Dance is a vital part of critical inquiry in the humanities and provides an ideal template for analyzing social power relations and the exclusion of women and the body from western epistemology. This dissertation conducts a comparative feminist analysis of representations of dan…