For millennia, traditional universal history – a genre of history that aims to collect the history of the entire universe into one universal narrative – had derived its narrative universality from its close association with the Catholic Biblical narrative. When the relevancy of …
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The 1904 World’s Fair, held in St. Louis, Missouri, was an important turning point for Japan both internationally as well as within the United States. The 1903 Domestic Industrial Exhibition held in Osaka impacted the timeline and the scale of the 1904 Fair as well as the foreig…
This dissertation examines the Chinese style of imperialism in the early 21st century through China’s self-justifying rationalization and strategic thought. It develops a theory called Cultural Subjectivism to explore the PRC’s preferred world order. Specifically, it analyzes th…
Long Live the Arab Worker: A Transnational History of Labor and Empire in the Yemeni Diaspora, examines how Yemeni workers and activists in their struggle to live and make a living highlighted the connections between local challenges in the diaspora with global politics of empir…
This research paper is in correlation to the online exhibit “The Power of Propaganda”. The exhibit explores the different pieces of propaganda used during World War II. The corresponding paper examines the different propaganda used by American, Great Britain and Germany during W…
The proximity and simultaneity of World War I and Prohibition pose questions of a shared and connected relationship. The current historiography falls short to connect these two seminal events and their impact on German-American communities. This study expands the existing litera…
This dissertation, “The Production of Religion and the Secular in China, 1858-1898,” explores how the intellectual and sociopolitical crises attendant to foreign imperialism, the upheaval of the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), and the influx of capitalist labor regimes influenced…
In the late 1950s, the United Kingdom remained a heavily industrialised country, with nearly 40 per cent of its workforce employed in manufacturing. Today, that figure is well below 10 per cent. Industries that were at the centre of Britain’s rise to world power in the 19th cent…
The following thesis analyzes the Kwangju Uprising through the lens of the foreigners living in and around Kwangju who became intimately involved in the crisis, and attempts to analyze both why they became involved and their impact on the crisis. While previous histories on the …
This dissertation studies the role of water in colonial statecraft in late-colonial Kenya. While the economic and political basis of colonial development after World War Two has been fully established, much of the work looking at the implementation of these projects focuses on l…
"Strikes and Strikeouts: Building An Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Working Class Sports Culture From Below in the United States, 1918-1950." My dissertation exposes the hidden history of how left-wing activists in the United States engaged with sports as a participatory activity for…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between the emergence of Islamophobia, the contemporaneous rise of ultranationalism, and British colonial policy in 1930s Burma. Though scholars agree that Burmese Islamophobia first appeared in the colonial period, they have not y…
“Medics carried more responsibilities than dry feet, salt tablets, syphilis, and puncture wounds,” U.S. Army Medic Ben Sherman stated after reflecting on his tour in Vietnam. On the battlefields of North Africa, Italy, France, and Vietnam, the medics of the U.S. Army Medical Dep…
La paranoia era el pan de cada día en el Caribe Frío. El imaginario de los poderes del deporte pendió de un hilo muy fino que toca problematizar sin sentimentalismos. El contexto de aquellos Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe de San Juan 1966 invita a pensar en el peso de la s…
This research examines historic preservation, sustainability, and environmental hazards in the face of climate change in reference to World Heritage Sites; particularly focusing on the question: Can UNESCO World Heritage Sites be conserved and protected in the face of climate ch…
Using the fictitious society of Gilead from Margaret Atwood’s novel “A Handmaid’s Tale” as it’s foundation, A Gift Shop in Gilead is an investigation into creating and commodifying a visual narrative of an oppressive theocracy into kitsch souvenirs and how this process simultane…
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945, respectively, marked an inflection point in humanity’s collective psyche. The effect of this nuclear inflection point on humanity is broad, and memories of the events and their aftereffects are myriad. …
This study investigates the relationship between German author Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918–2007), his bestselling 1973 novel Das Boot (The Boat), and the Federal Republic of Germany’s endeavor to come to terms with the spiritual damage left behind by National Socialism as well…