This dissertation explores the relationship between public health and race-making in Hawaiian Islands, from the last years of the independent Kingdom of Hawai‘i through the first two decades of American rule. During this period, it was a commonplace among white colonists that Na…
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Empires may be dead; however memories of empire are alive and well. The list of incidents involving the remembrance and contested memories of imperial experiences across the globe include every modern empire that has fallen in the last century and resonate in almost every nation…
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…
This dissertation examines the connections between global capitalism, modern medicine, and empire through a close study of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals during the interwar years. As one of the leading drug companies in East Asia at the time, Hoshi embodied Japan's imperial aspirations,…
Following the Sepoy Rebellion (1857), India's architecture came to play a key role in Britons' quest for knowledge and comprehension of India and Indians. For this reason, British perceptions of the subcontinent's architecture are intimately and foundationally linked to Britons'…
This dissertation is a history of French West African colonial soldiers who served in French Empire. Known by the misnomer tirailleurs sénégalais, these servicemen contributed to the expansion, maintenance, and defense of France's presence on several continents. The complex iden…
This dissertation explores the role of Freemasonry in the development of modern India, by bolstering the British Empire in India, and by informing the Indian nationalist movement. Freemasonry was an ideal imperial “cult”: it did not require that one apostatize one's religion, ye…
My project draws on immigration history, urban social history, gender history, and the new cultural history of national identity, race, and empire. Based on four years of research in French archival and published sources, the dissertation explores the impact on the port city of …
The Sibylline Oracles are collection of ancient pagan, Jewish, and Christian prophecies which were composed in Greek hexameter and attributed to an ancient Greek prophetess named Sibyl. While few of the pagan Sibylline Oracles survive, an extensive collection of Jewish and Chris…
The United States routinely uses military power to impose grand plans for peacekeeping and nation-building. From Korea to Iraq, the U.S. military has been a driving force in this era of American Empire. Given this empire's global reach, what are its local impacts? Crime and envi…
In the nineteenth century, geophysics and empire building developed in tandem. As a result, empirical science could utilize the imperial structure to conduct research on a worldwide scale. Scientific motives for such studies included the need to confront both weaknesses in the i…
The subject of this dissertation is the 1897 Pukhtun revolt in the North-West Frontier of British India. The Frontier occupies a unique place in the history of British colonialism. The British were unable to conquer this region or subdue its inhabitants—the Pukhtun tribes—despit…
The conquest of the Khanate of Kazan' was a pivotal event in the development of Muscovy. Moscow gained possession over a previously independent political entity with a multiethnic and multiconfessional populace. The Muscovite political system adapted to the unique circumstances …
This dissertation examines the Cold War and its termination, the collapse of the Russian empire which was embodied in the Soviet Union, and the evolution of Russian policy towards the Commonwealth of Independent States from 1992 to 1997. These subjects are examined in order to a…
The establishment of museums in India during the nineteenth century was unmatched elsewhere in the British Empire. Between 1814 and 1910, more than a dozen major museum projects were undertaken in India. There were also countless smaller museums, which emerged not only in the ci…
Amid the global superpower conflict and rising race-consciousness of the twentieth-century, “Third World” decolonization redrew the atlas and opened a future promising and dangerous to East and West alike. Much remains to be learned about its course in many parts of the world, i…
This dissertation uses data from recent archaeological surveys in the upper Tigris river region in southeastern Turkey combined with Neo-Assyrian letters and the annals of the Assyrian kings to investigate the implementation and maintenance of imperialism in three geographic reg…
This dissertation analyzes how images of suffering bodies—violated women's bodies in India and starving bodies in Ireland—have been mobilized within competing narratives to define and redefine the British empire, its ideological investments, and modes of anti-colonial resistance…
In eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, sailors occupied a paradoxical place in the national imagination. They were idealized as the heroic defenders of the nation, yet they were also stigmatized as brutish, misanthropic, and promiscuous. Naval officers described th…
The dissertation undertakes a detailed analysis of a series of parliamentary acts which occasioned numerous and dramatic transformations of the meanings and institutions of British citizenship in the twentieth century. This is followed by a close reading of personal narratives b…