This book is a compilation of oral histories about the movement of Luo and some Bantu-speaking peoples. It includes histories of many clans or ethnic groups, and how drought, warfare, disease, and competition over pastoral resources in western Kenya forced them to look for a lan…
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This study analyses local communities in Caernarfonshire in order to offer new perspectives on Welsh society in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. This has been seen as a period of major change in Wales characterised by economic modernisation and national awakening. Ho…
Digwyddiadau, pobl a llenyddiaeth wleidyddol yng Nghymru a Gwlad y Basg rhwng 1876 a 1918 yw cefnlen hanesyddol ehangaf yr astudiaeth hon, a datganiadau cenedlaetholgar yn y wasg yn ystod y 1890au sy’n dwyn ei sylw yn benodol. Yn ôl hanesyddiaeth draddodiadol y ddwy wlad hyn, dy…
On account of their supposed link to nature, women in post-revolutionary France were pigeonholed into a very restrictive sphere that centred around domesticity and submission to their male counterparts. Yet this thesis shows how a number of women writers – Cottin, Genlis, Krüden…
Research into the material culture of the household and the domestic interior has increased rapidly during recent years. It has primarily focused on the appearance and use of domestic space leaving household management and maintenance a neglected area of study. Furthermore the r…
The second practice of nineteenth-century tonality
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Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York's built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues tha…
In 19th century Lebanon, Christians were attending newly founded modern schools in large numbers while Muslims were generally content with traditional religious schools. By the end of the century this situation created a discrepancy in the educational level attained, with Christ…
This study is a description and analysis of the early days of the Hamburg Temple, the first permanent congregation of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany. It addresses substantive questions surrounding the founding of the Temple as a chapter in the modern history of Judaism an…
My dissertation, Signs taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Persian Travel Literature to Europe is a re-examination of the significance of Persian travel narratives to Europe for Qajar Iran (1796-1925). Through textual and contextual analysis of Qajar travel accounts to Europe, …
This dissertation describes the evolution and reception of German-Jewish historiography, known as Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism), to comprehend the role the historicizing of Judaism played in the creation of modern Jewish culture in nineteenth-century Germany. T…
Throughout the period 1800-1906, education played a central role in the conflicts between tradition and change, and in the dilemmas involved in the process of modernization and westernization. Questions regarding the desirability or even the possibility of divorcing European lea…
This dissertation is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of Ottoman economic thought within the context of modernization during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). Drawing on a broad array of primary sources ranging from textbooks and manuals of economics to …
The dissertation is divided into two parts, each containing two chapters. Part I describes two nineteenth century movements and fields--the German Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism) and the Arab nahd[dotbelow]a (Renaissance)--moving between what these developments a…
This dissertation examines nineteenth century French and twentieth century Francophone texts in which the themes of colonization and adoption intersect. I first examine nineteenth century literary texts in which a mythological conception of French identity takes shape; this iden…
This dissertation examines the origins, evolution, and dissemination of various political languages in 19th - and 20th -century Iran. During this period Iran witnessed several cases of mass radical political action, including two revolutions. Why such radical activities took pla…
This dissertation traces the rise and fall of the enigmatic New-York Tribune editor Horace Greeley (1811-1872) and his role as an interpreter of the "Market Revolution" that took place in nineteenth-century America. As the most influential journalist of his generation, Greeley b…
By utilizing primary sources written in various languages, the preliminary work for a biography of the Tajik encyclopedist Ahmad Danesh (1827-1897) is prepared. Contrary to what Soviet historians had suggested, it is erroneous to consider Danesh as an "Enlightener," i.e., a cond…