This dissertation examines hegemonic notions of respectability, family and honor in pre-colonial Egypt by looking at the outsiders, that is, those women and girls who violated these norms or were excluded from the normative family. It historicizes norms of respectability by look…
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This dissertation examines how the 'ulama' of the Benadir Coast of Somalia and the urban patricians in Brava in particular responded to European colonial expansion. The 'ulama' evoked their resistance through mystical writings and poetry, especially at Brava, and the thesis disc…
This study aims to analyze how Hanafi law defined sharecropping and tenancy agreements, and tenant/landlord rights and obligations in the context of Ottoman Syria from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. With the increasing prevalence of sharecropping arra…
The present focus of Americans with regard to the outside world is undoubtedly the Arab Islamic world. This dissertation examines the 19th century representations of Orientalism in the work of Bayard Taylor in order to understand the attitudes and images that informed one of Ame…
The British colonial administration in India transformed Muslim law in the nineteenth century through the three concurrent processes of translation, legislation, and adjudication. Although Indian Muslims were gradually displaced in their traditional position as interpreters of t…
This dissertation examines Victorian representations of "Oriental" religions in literary, occultist, and academic texts, arguing that the Orientalist study of religion generated new theories of textuality, subjectivity, identity, and sexuality in Victorian culture. It suggests t…
Recent scholarship in American Studies has begun to examine the phenomenon of United States Orientalism, tracing the contours of a peculiarly American engagement with both the material and imaginary East. However, what has yet to be sufficiently examined is the formation of a sp…
The transmission of reformist Islam in nineteenth century Indonesia was influenced significantly by intellectual network that was established in Mecca and Medina between key Indonesian and Haramayn `ulam a' . In the nineteenth century the holy cities attracted a number of Javane…
This project examines images of India in the writings of the German Indologists Friedrich Max Mueller (1823-1900), Paul Deussen (1845-1919), and Richard Garbe (1857-1927), and ideas associated with the Indian thinkers Rammohun Roy, K. C. Sen (1838-1884), P. C. Mozoomdar (1840-19…
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for a period of his life he held real political power, acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. Barry Hough and Howard Davis show how Coleridge's actions in th…
Shows how history becomes biography and the integral role of Mexico's leaders in the events of the nineteenth century, explores the seven presidents of the revolutionary era of 1910-1940, and examines the nation's modern presidency.
The pattern of European development since 1789 can be understood only by study of those all-embracing forces that have affected the whole continent, from Britain to the Balkans. Dr Thomson's history was written in this belief. In it he emphasises particularly the overall factors…
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.
Unique to nineteenth-century Spain and Central America, the pronunciamiento can be interpreted as an act of insubordination against ruling authorities, which included a written document with a list of complaints or demands. The practice was almost always carried out by members o…
This thesis traces the re-conceptualisation of melancholia as a biomedical mental disease in Victorian medicine, with an emphasis on the uptake of physiology into British psychological medicine. Language appropriated from experimental physiology allowed physicians to speak about…