The scope of this dissertation is to examine the representations of Egypt in modern Italian literature. By closely analyzing Egyptian, Italian and French texts related to the colonial moment and the Italian intellectual environment during fascism I revise current views of coloni…
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This dissertation examines the conflict in Eastern Anatolia in the early 20th century and the memory politics around it. It shows how discourses of victimhood have been engines of grievance that power the politics of fear, hatred and competing, exclusionary claims to statehood a…
The First World War spanned continents, mobilized vast resources and populations, and initiated new modes of contact within and among empires. For the British and the French the war brought colonial troops and supplies to Europe, involved fighting for colonies in Africa and Asia…
A centennial calls for reflection and reinterpretation. In the 100 th year since the tragedy that was World War I, the event continues to reveal itself one worthy of new angles and elucidation. Indeed, that is the aim of this work. Although much has been written on the legion of…
This dissertation compares the stories of mothers of martyrs from many different religious traditions with those of Canadian mothers who were willing to send their sons to war during World War One. Over the years in the Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Sikh traditions stories have…
World War One has evoked a prodigious and sustained literary response from Jewish writers in Eastern and Western Europe, America and Israel. For some, it was their formative literary experience; for others their culminating one. Some wrote as soldiers or veterans, others as refu…
The subsequent paper investigates the history and creation of the Libbey Doll collection at the Toledo Museum of Art and delineates the conservation treatment of Parisienne of 1763, one of figures in the collection.
In describing the experience of British Empire soldiers in the First World War, most scholars have focused only on the Western Front, ignoring the most important secondary theaters of Britain's war: the Sinai and Palestine. In these campaigns against the Ottoman Empire, there ca…
This work explores the interrelationship between world affairs and the American civil rights movement in the twentieth century. It examines how civil rights leaders viewed international developments and incorporated their understanding of oversees affairs into their reform messa…
The origin of Saint-Louis in 1659 and its growth are inseparable from the history of the development of the French commercial empire in the framework of the newly-created world economy. This study argues that city's health problems were due to two sets of factors, external and i…
The Middle Eastern front of World War I was a challenge to Great Britain in seeking reliable allies to combat the Ottoman Empire, which had joined the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary, as it endeavored to protect its own empire and passage to India. One valuable can…
This dissertation is a description of the effects of World War I on the student missionary movement. While the story of the Student Volunteer Movement has been recounted many times before, it has never been told in relationship to the colossal tragedies of the Great War. This is…
In this dissertation, I examine the transition period between Ottoman and British rule as experienced by the residents of Jerusalem, between the years 1912--1920. By treating Jerusalem as a mixed urban locale, consisting of Muslims, Jews and Christians of various ethnic and nati…
This dissertation examines the lives of Tunisian veterans who fought for the French during the First and Second World Wars. My thesis breaks new ground in that it attempts to place the story of Tunisian veterans in the wider global context of the World Wars and decolonization. E…
This dissertation investigates the ways that religion overlapped with politics in the United States' diplomatic interactions with the Muslim world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It recovers the contributions of an underappreciated Protestant missionary named James L.…
This dissertation offers a new way of situating the golem legend within twentieth century European culture. Focusing on case studies in German and Hebrew film and literature, my project explores one of the most significant yet neglected historical contexts for the immense popula…
This dissertation investigates the everyday lives of the Ottoman prisoners of war in World War I and the impact of captivity on them in a comparative perspective. Captivity narratives and previously untapped prison camp newspapers produced by the prisoners in various camps form …
"1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War I David Stevenson examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. …
In the immediate aftermath of the armistice that ended the First World War, the Allied nations of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to put the fallen German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial, in what would be the first ever international criminal tribunal. In Britain, Lloyd Geo…
