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This study seeks to examine the specific circumstances surrounding the developmentof a trade in alfa, or esparto, grass, between Britain and southern Tunisia in thenineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Beginning abruptly in 1871, within the space of ten years alfa grass had b…

This body of work is a way of understanding, reflecting on, and contributing to a contemporary dialogue about the impact of digital technology and the Internet on society by looking at the organization of information that lies behind the computer screen, and creating work that i…

This dissertation argues that the material qualities of paper had a direct and significant impact on the development of English and Dutch national identities through the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Affordable, accessible texts played a critical role in disseminat…