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This thesis examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge transmission on the formation of the 'ulamā', the learned scholarly class in Islam, and their approach to the articulation of the Islamic disciplines. The basis of this examination is the twelfth/eighteenth cent…

This thesis offers a reconsideration of Amelia Opie’s career as a novelist in the light of her developing religious allegiances over the period 1814-1825 in particular. In twentieth-century scholarship, Opie (1769-1853) was often treated primarily as the author of Adeline Mowbra…

Late-eighteenth-century Britain witnessed a wave of texts seeking to standardize written and spoken forms of English. This fact has recently provoked scholars to reappraise language pedagogy's role in enabling certain aesthetic developments typically associated with Romanticism.…

Rife with knowledge projects, encyclopedia-writing, botanical books, travel accounts, and other writing that we today would call ‘scientific,’ the eighteenth century is marked by an explosion of empiricism and rational materialism, re-shaping epistemological frameworks for under…

The sexual violence and terrorism inflicted upon enslaved Black women by white men was integral in shaping the character of Caribbean Atlantic slavery, as was the resistance to that violence. The ramifications of these encounters set and shaped social parameters of intimacy, sex…

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Spain prospered as a dominant trading empire with the help of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade network. While Spain’s empire grew with the trade network, some disasters struck Manila galleons on their voyages. To date, two of those shipwreck…

The creation of categories of biological racial difference such as skin complexion and hair texture were key sites through which Black humanity was denied and which white slave owners used to position Africans as inferior. How did enslaved Black women in the French Empire mainta…

Written in a time of great turbulence (COVID-19, racial, political and civil unrest, police killings of BIPOC, justified rebellions and climate degradation), this thesis brings together an important body of scholarly work into a critical exploration of the representations of the…

This thesis is a historical descriptive case study of a corpus of editions and reprints of Frances Burney's novel, Evelina, first published in 1778. The study seeks to describe the publication history of the novel and the evolution of its paratextual apparatus.

This dissertation examines the emergence of the Qājār monarchy of Iran (1786 – 1925) from the vantage point of the Caspian Sea. It examines the ways in which eighteenth-century autonomous rulers of northern Iran harnessed the resources and wealth of the Caspian littoral to conso…

This dissertation examines the works of David Hume and his use of esotericism in his historical and political writing. In the past couple of years there have been calls to rethink David Hume’s legacy and even rename buildings named after him. It is perhaps fitting and necessary …

Namen doktorske disertacije z naslovom Figura, ornamentika in oltarna arhitektura v kiparstvu Jožefa Holzingerja (1735–1797) je izpostaviti pomen celovite obravnave sakralnega kiparstva 18. stoletja. Raziskovalci baročnega kiparstva na Slovenskem so se v svojih raziskavah doslej…

This research explores the knowledge of medical techniques during the early 18th century in Boston, Massachusetts, a period of modernization and changing attitudes toward disease. By analyzing archaeoparasitological samples, written accounts, and artifacts associated with medici…

Women living in colonial New York were poised at the crossroads of two global trade routes, the British and the Dutch, and so had access to a collection of goods and ideas unparalleled in either their fellow North American colonies or their European mother countries. As is evide…