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The Ethics of Evaluation: the Immigrant, the Cosmopolitan, and the “Jew” in American Literary Realism, 1880–1925, argues that vacillations between philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic literary Jewishness are symptomatic of upheavals in the ethico-religious, economic and aesthetic land…

The purpose of this research project is to examine the role of conflict resolution in training programmes for military peacekeepers. It offers a significant contribution to the conflict resolution literature by providing contemporary analysis of where further manifestations exis…

This dissertation traces a history of twentieth-century modernism and explores problems in modernism theory from the perspective of the life and work of the German-Jewish émigré composer Stefan Wolpe. Many of the practices of aesthetic modernism have been the work of displaced p…

The convergence of contemporary international affairs with religion calls for a new lens for interaction. This convergence, combined with the global topography of militant ideologies in the name of Islam, the impact of the War on Terror, and the rift in Muslim-West relations has…

During the United States Civil War, a Mexican national, Pedro Garcia, and hundreds ofothers like him came to Brownsville, Texas, looking for ways to strengthen their positions byjoining the Union army. Eventually, the Mexican/Tejano recruits deserted in droves while theUnion for…

It is the premise of this study that in the Tudor period there developed a new sense of being/feeling ‘cosmopolitan’ – i.e. a citizen of the world - that was distinct from the original, political, meaning of this term and was instead defined by cross cultural engagement, interna…

This dissertation elucidates both the rationale for, as well as the appropriate method of, interpreting and applying to Western political life non-Western texts and ideas that have been excluded from the "canon" of political theory. The field of political theory is still an inte…