Traditionally, the British Empire is studied through the lens of British imperial rule in Asia, Africa, or the Americas, while scholars brush aside what was the vortex of British foreign policy in the second half of the nineteenth century--the Eastern Question, or the question o…
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This dissertation examines the role of the janissaries in social and political life of the early nineteenth century Istanbul. In contrast to the mainstream historiography which has treated the Janissary Corps exclusively as a military institution, this study attempts to explore …
Between 1880 and 1930, the legal regulation of democratic politics in the United States underwent a transformation. The dissertation argues that the change was more significant than has previously been recognized. The transformation extended well beyond reforming the rules gover…
This study sought to facilitate the incorporation of Standards 8 and 9 of the National Standards for Music Education into the high school choral classroom. It was intended to remedy the problem that such Standards are frequently neglected in music performance classes. As such, i…
This document is a compendium of information to aid the choral conductor in locating, preparing, and performing treble choruses from nineteenth and twentieth century operas. A mere eight treble choruses are available in octavo form. The remainder either are not published in octa…
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of American slavery, a minority of slaves were native African Muslims who were intelligent, literate, religious, and often of high status in their countries. They were recognized for their honesty, industriousness, and obedience, qualit…
This thesis addresses the work of a relatively unknown nineteenth century Russian artist, Vasilii Vasilevich Vereshchagin. The focus of research on Vereshchagin is the series he painted in Central Asia in response to Russia's conquest of Turkestan. This work is examined within t…
My dissertation explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian nineteenth-century literature and culture at large. This project problematizes Edward Said's binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European countries …
It is generally agreed that the novel is of European origin and that it was imported into non-European countries through colonial contact. While acknowledging this European precedence, it is important to also acknowledge the unique ways in which non-European authors indigenized …
This dissertation is a comparative urban history of two provincial capitals and port cities in the Ottoman Empire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Salonica and Beirut. Specifically, it explores the complicated processes, struggles, and debates that emerg…
In what ways is identity a banner, a badge, or a burden? How a person conforms to or resists the implications of any form of identity is the central focus of this study. Through the concept of the yoke, we will discuss Au pays des sables by Isabelle Eberhardt, Monsieur Vénus by …
Drawing from literary criticism, ecological philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the wisdom of the female principle--or what Paula Gunn Allen perceives as "Her presence," the "power to make and relate"--this interdisciplinary study challenges dominant assumptions that habitually prev…
Nineteenth-century British authors frequently made use of popular narratives in their novels, often retelling fairy tales, ballads, and myths. Many of these narratives were well known due not only to oral transmission but also to printed chapbooks, broadsides, and pantomimes. Th…
Bringing the Tiger into the Parlor: The Consumption of Exotic Objects in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel considers the ways foreign objects are exotified through consumption and display in the domestic settings of novels by Susan Ferrier, Benjamin Disraeli, William Makepeac…
The dissertation examines two issues: first, the impact of religious uncertainty on some experiments in narrative form in the nineteenth century, using works by Melville, Susan Warner, and Dostoevsky as examples; second and more generally, it takes up the theoretical and philoso…
This dissertation examines changes in Jewish religious organization and ritual practice in the early nineteenth century United States. After the American Revolution American Jews reevaluated themselves and their surroundings in keeping with republican ideals. Jewish life was alt…
This dissertation is a literary and historical study of the relationship between canonization of texts and religious community formation. A story that is not represented in accounts of Muslim history, this project examines how the modern day Ismaili community has come to be iden…
Through his position as head of the Ez Hayyim Yeshiva in Volozhin and as a prolific and popular author, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin (Neziv; 1816-1893) stood at the very center of Lithuanian rabbinic society during the second half of the nineteenth century. This dissertation…
This dissertation is a case study of cosmopolitan city space. It examines how ethnic, national and religious minorities used spatial settings to forge and negotiate conceptions of foreignness and localness in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Alexandria, Egypt. Using …