As a sub-field of children’s history, the history of education has received little attention aside from studies of its role in the nineteenth century. This thesis examines the field of children’s education in Stuart England. While some attention to the subject has been paid, a n…
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Rebels haven’t always been sexy. In fact, throughout history “fighting the power” has often revealed the ugliest side of human nature. Of course, sometimes rebellion is necessary, even if it isn’t pretty, but it should never be considered lightly. So, under what circumstances is…
Migration is a decidedly human condition that has influenced the development of all nations. Yet the cultural and demographic impacts upon the United States during the long nineteenth century brought about by the mass movements of peoples from Africa, Europe, and beyond were esp…
My dissertation focuses on the creation of the Menagerie du Jardin des Plantes between 1793 and 1804 and shows how the Ménagerie, which hasn't received much critical attention, served as a pedagogical tool for the republican government as it sought to develop new forms of power …
This dissertation is an exploration of the profound influence of violent conflict on the development of identities across imperial, national, racial, and cultural boundaries. The study uses the 1775 rebel invasion of Quebec during the American War for Independence as a window in…
The twentieth-century Chinese experience has been marked and marred by warfare, violent revolution, and death on an unimaginable scale. For many, how to come to terms with the ubiquity of death and how to find meaning in the century’s carnage and bloodshed were among the most ex…
This dissertation uses changes in Shanghai’s urban geography as a lens to study the processes and meanings of urban revolution for the daily lives of workers in the 1950s. Using a large body of archival documents, I focus especially on the construction of so-called Workers’ New …
The political discourse of German Romanticism is often interpreted reductively: as either entirely revolutionary, reactionary, or indeed apolitical in nature. Breaking with this critical tradition, this dissertation offers a new conceptual framework for political Romanticism cal…
As both a student of Pentecostalism and the moving of the Holy Spirit has effected Christianity as well as how the Christian faith has impacted western history, I am intrigued by the impact the movement known as the First Great Awakening had on the formation of America as a nati…
This thesis focuses upon a significant body of contemporary French political thought which takes as its starting point a contention that both the monist and doctrinaire political precepts dating from the Revolution and the consequent Hegelian, Marxist and structuralist thinking …
This dissertation rethinks the Iraqi revolution of 1958 and the post-World War II era leading up to it through the lens of gender and family reform, in particular by examining the relation between such reforms and various conceptions of temporality, both secular and Islamic. Eng…
The dissertation explains why similar coup-installed regimes in Egypt (1952), Iran (1921), and Turkey (1923) developed along different political trajectories (authoritarianism, royal absolutism, and democracy, respectively). While most studies of regime change tend to underline …
This dissertation traces the fate of groups in Indonesia who sought to make their country an Islamic state by transforming politics and society. Although these groups played a critical role in winning Indonesia's independence during the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949), divisio…
As goes the military, so goes the revolution. It has been stated in many ways, but it has never been clearer than in the uprisings of the Arab Spring. Whether the military backed the regime or broke from it, or whether the military itself broke in two, the behavior of the milita…
On January 25, Egyptian protesters infamously toppled the Mubarak regime in a period of eighteen days. Similar to experiences of other Egyptian historical nationalist and revolutionary experiences, Egyptian women played a full role in the eighteen day Jan 25th Revolution. Howeve…
Modern Persian literary histories generally characterize the decades leading up to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 as a single episode of accumulating political anxieties in Persian poetics, as in other areas of cultural production. According to the dominant literary-historical n…
This thesis analyzes the causes and processes of the East German revolution of 1989. The first half explains the demise of the USSR and its East European allies in terms of their insertion into a changing global environment. A Marxist explanation is given of the economic and soc…