The concept of Jewish art music appeared in Russia in the last decades of the nineteenth-century. It was influenced by modernist notions of purity and had strong political overtones, reflecting the clash between Eastern and Western European concepts of Judaism, Yiddish and Hebre…
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This study analyses local communities in Caernarfonshire in order to offer new perspectives on Welsh society in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. This has been seen as a period of major change in Wales characterised by economic modernisation and national awakening. Ho…
This thesis considers the hitherto unexplored question of modernism and non-fictional genres. Although modernist studies have long been attentive to the implications of modernism’s “manifestos”, and recent work on modernist magazines has shed new light on forms beyond poetry and…
Image and Imagination: Creative Photography and the South Wales Valleys, explores the development of practices within photography undertaken in and about the South Wales Valleys during the second half of the twentieth century. Central to this study is an examination of the work …
The first four decades of the twentieth century was a period of rapid development in physics. The late nineteenth century discoveries of X-rays, Becquerel rays and subatomic particles had revealed new properties of matter, and the early twentieth century quantum and relativity t…
I Hear America Kvelling engages three twentieth century performances that deploy Jewish-ness to embrace, encourage and interrogate Democratic Ideals put forward by American Romanticism: self-reliance, speaking a universal truth from the depths of a particular self and realizing …
This study is a comparative work on the development of national statistics in Canada and Israel-Palestine during the first half of the 20th century. I explore how processes of state building in Canada after Confederation, at the beginning of the 20th century, and in Israel, befo…
This dissertation explores the relationship between state sovereignty and major instances of crimes against humanity committed in the latter 20 th century. In order to examine this dynamics of this relationship, the author analyzes the history and theory of the concept of sovere…
This project examines the under-explored tradition of post-WWII mythological poetry by women. The poets in the study engage in cultural politics both by subverting and reaffirming the foundational stories of the Western literary tradition. Greek myths offer some of literature's …
This dissertation examines how the social institution of domestic slavery declined and ended in Fes, Morocco. This very gradual and complex twentieth-century historical transformation is approached through attention to the limited influence of French Protectorate (1912-1956) pol…
The dissertation is a study of the history of Ethiopian immigrants in the US, who are estimated between 250,000 and 350,000; and who came to the U.S. between the 1950s and 1990s. The majority of these Ethiopians are victims of the "Red Terror" which hit hard cities like Addis Ab…
Film is both twentieth century art and business, whereby the audience views characters' emotions, settings, costumes, and lighting, along with hearing words and music. It is a collaborative effort between producer, director, writer, star, and technicians. As film evolved, one of…
This dissertation examines how historical events and representation of those events relative to the wider historical context have allowed the media, opinion setters, and the ordinary public to use the names of San Francisco, California, Birmingham, Alabama and Las Vegas, Nevada …
In what ways is identity a banner, a badge, or a burden? How a person conforms to or resists the implications of any form of identity is the central focus of this study. Through the concept of the yoke, we will discuss Au pays des sables by Isabelle Eberhardt, Monsieur Vénus by …
In this dissertation, I propose a new understanding of the relationship between the inhabitants of the metropole and the colonies, by showing how a number of major Twentieth-Century French and Francophone authors depict technology as a mediator, both productive and destructive, …
My dissertation, "Marrying in and out of Whiteness: Twentieth-Century Intermarriage Narratives," examines shifting American perceptions of race, ethnicity, and whiteness through the formula of the intermarriage story. In each chapter, I do a comparative study of black/white inte…
Hometown associations and ethnic unions arose in Nigeria after 1910. We know much about their history and activities, but we lack a description of what makes them significant, why they thrive in certain places, and why they endure. This study engages five closely related questio…
This thesis discusses the complex and ambiguous relationship between the working class and religion in early twentieth century English Canada. This relationship is assessed through the examination of the national and local response of the Protestant and Catholic churches to labo…
This dissertation is a biography of Charles Birch, a renowned population ecologist, religious philosopher and environmental advocate who invented the phrase (and helped spark a movement toward) "ecological sustainability." The chief intellectual merits of the project are its con…