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This dissertation project examines the role of identity, the politics of identity contestation and domestic political structures as part of the mechanisms and processes that may be involved in the decisions that states make regarding disengagement from their colonial and territo…

While working to maintain contemporary and future relationships with stakeholders, heritage sites and cultural centers across the United States attempt to tell the history and experiences of the land and people who were once there, are there in the present, and will be there in …

During the period of Mongol occupation, Baghdad, a long established center of learning in the Islamic world, emerged as a site of intense intellectual debate and dialogue between Shi`i and Sunni scholars. Shi`i and Sunni scholars participated extensively in the transmission of k…