This thesis aims to foster discussion about the complex terrain of water politics by investigating the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of a hegemonic water discourse in the US today: water conservation. Its overarching question is: how do settler colonial invoca…
Historically, in each of America’s past wars a significant proportion of each of them had to first be fought by an initial military strategy leading to defeat. The nation endured, and was perhaps lucky, until the winning military strategies were innovated by generals eventually …
Theodore Roosevelt does not fit comfortably within the conventional categories of political ideology. Some biographers and historians label him a conservative or a warhawk, and others categorize him as a progressive or a peacemaker. This study reconciles at least some of the dis…