Historians of Russian monarchy have avoided the concept of sovereignty, choosing instead to describe how monarchs sought power, authority, or legitimacy. This dissertation, which centers on Catherine the Great, the empress of Russia between 1762 and 1796, takes on the concept of…
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Located on the Atlantic coast of the Amazon’s northernmost reaches, the North Cape was a remote but resource-rich region in halfway between the French colonial outpost of Cayenne and the Portuguese port city of Belém. In between these imperial jurisdictions, Indigenous groups an…
Following Georgia’s extension of civil and criminal jurisdiction over the Cherokee Nation, Augustin Smith Clayton, judge of the Western Circuit of the Superior Court of Georgia, presided over numerous cases involving Georgia’s attempt to exert authority. During the course of his…
Philippine history is in part a history of refugees. This thesis demonstrates that from the 1930s to the mid-1990s, refugees were associated with the process of Philippine state-formation. In its various political forms, the state granted asylum to a succession of refugee popula…
Examining a rich archive of textual and inscriptional sources produced by the Advaita Vedānta monastery at Śṛṅgeri in the fourteenth century, this dissertation argues that this monumental feat of scholastic production articulated a clear theory of monastic governmentality. Monas…
From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis seeks to evaluate the role of Torri…
This thesis follows the language of fire between three characters and a forest in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. In this region, growing interest in the “good fire” of prescribed burning is routinely deployed in a non-human ecological silo, failing to emb…
In her reign as Queen Consort, issues with Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) brought up questions of power between the Church and State, helped heighten anti-Catholicism, and brought up questions of exclusion years before the infamous Exclusion Crisis began. History has traditio…
This critical participatory ethnographic study examines the negotiation of civic identity by urban Indigenous students in public high school social studies classes, a Native youth council, and the civic environment of a school in Washington State, where the Since Time Immemorial…
The Old Testament records the story of God advancing His sovereign plan for the redemption and preservation of His people. Throughout the Old Testament, God works in and through human choices. The book of Esther is part of this overarching story and yet, God’s name is never ment…
Exploring the misrepresentations in the mass media of California Native Americans identifies the root of dehumanizing stereotypes: American Literature. With a historical context of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, this thesis explores the stereotypical misrepresentations that suppor…
The honour of the Crown in Canadian Aboriginal jurisprudence has taken on a prominent role in interpreting s.35 of the Constitution Act 1982, cited as grounding, at a minimum, Crown responsibilities to consult and accommodate. Yet what is not often discussed is the over 800 year…
This research examines the experiences of Indigenous comic creators when making comic books, and I aim to investigate the individual and communal motivations for creating comics. Representations of Indigenous characters and storylines have primarily been told through a white len…
In this study, I investigate the history and ethical implications of Christian discourses of political power, expressed through the modern phenomenon of bureaucracies. I argue that as a technical system of political power there is little in the Christian tradition at odds with b…
This thesis examines the 1948 Trujillo v. Garley case and contextualizes it with the long history of Pueblo sovereignty in New Mexico. Recent literature on Indigenous electorates in the U.S. southwest has led to new understandings about Pueblo participation in elections. Given t…
This thesis aims at furthering our understanding of the constitutional structures and processes of sui generic associations such as the European Union. The thesis argues that the problematical constitutionalisation of the European Union has highlighted the limitations of the pol…
The research was an investigation into the phenomenon of external military interventions in Africa. The broad interpretation often given to intervention compelled both an African view on the subject and an operational definition. External military intervention was defined as the…
This dissertation starts by noting a tension in Catholic Social Teaching between the right of certain persons to immigrate, and the right of polities to control their borders, and seeks to find a way to resolve that tension. In a first moment, we ask whether the "right to immigr…