Western fascination with the Orient has generated many cliches that overshadow the actual experience of travelers. These cliches constitute the discourse of Orientalism, which Edward Said defined as "a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient's special …
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My dissertation analyzes art-historical constructions of the artist, Paul Klee, and their implications for modernism. A previously ignored letter from Oskar Schlemmer in 1919, in which he states that the academics might not hire Klee at the Stuttgart Academy because they found h…
The dissertation investigates the six plans devised by Le Corbusier for Algiers between 1930 and 1942, situating them within the representations given to the French presence in Algiers and their volatile political and cultural milieu. The problem was to identify these canonized,…
(Sie waren einst Flüchtlinge is a collection of the biographies of nine individuals who came to Switzerland from different nations as refugees. Although each account varies dramatically in terms of its course and outcome, the common theme which runs through all of the chronicles…
This thesis studies the evolving relationship between the United States and Turkey from approximately 1900 through 1927 through the lens Turco-American Treaty of Lausanne (1923). The author presents the United States' interests in the Near East, its attempts to protect them duri…
This thesis addresses the issue of finding ways and means of achieving sustainable peace in post-conflict, ethnically divided societies. It examines, in particular, two approaches, the power-sharing and the social transformation approaches, that are generally viewed as opposed t…