This study aimed to analyze the travels of American missionary women to Turkey at the beginning of the twentieth century. Among these women Charlotte Allen Ward traveled to Turkey as the wife of the missionary medical doctor Edwin St. John Ward. Mary Isabella Ward and the Ely si…
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This study aims to trace the development of Islamic theological discourse in Indonesia, from the early 1900s to the end of the twentieth century. It will focus on how modernist Muslims have constructed their theological thought throughout the century, which, in turn, reflects th…
As early as the first Muslim dynasties, rulers commissioned mosques to establish their authority and create a visual manifestation of Islam. The mosque also became an integral aspect of the community's identity, serving as its physical and spiritual center. During the late 20th …
This dissertation explores the history of Qur'anic education in twentieth century Senegal, based primarily on the witness of students. It maps continuity and change in the educational discourses and practices of Senegal's Qur'anic schools, and examines the ways in which the scho…
This dissertation examines the origins and development of a key religious orientation in contemporary Islamic thought. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the term "Salafiyya" was linked to a transnational movement of Islamic reform whose proponents strove to reconcile th…
This dissertation examines how the 'ulama' of the Benadir Coast of Somalia and the urban patricians in Brava in particular responded to European colonial expansion. The 'ulama' evoked their resistance through mystical writings and poetry, especially at Brava, and the thesis disc…
In the twentieth century, the nationalist alignment of oral traditions with cultural authenticity and autonomy is revised by a series of writers: W.E.B. Du Bois, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, and Toni Morrison. …
In 1898, the United States substituted the Puerto Rican government with a military government. From 1990 on, a so-called civil government was established under the authority of the War Department and the President's office. Also a policy was established to Americanize the Puerto…
The center of this project is the Luo Union, a socio-cultural organization founded amongst pockets of migrant workers in towns across East Africa. Riwruok e Teko (Unity is Strength) has been the mantra of the organization, for all of its nearly 60 year official existence. From i…
Women of color use writing as a de-colonization site, a political act that dismantles the master-narrative and retrieves a long-lost, distorted or erased history. Their oeuvres tackle oppressions--gender, racial, economic--intertwined issues to be confronted prior to achieving a…
The profound social changes wrought by the advent of Modernity in the Muslim world have given rise to new voices claiming authority on religious issues. In Indonesia and elsewhere, such developments had a profound effect upon both the form and content of religious and legal deba…
What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? Martin Conway provides an innovative account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe - and how t…
A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Ma…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…