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This dissertation examines European involvement in the efforts of the Ottoman government to restructure the Orthodox Church and community ( millet) during the mid-nineteenth century. This is accomplished by placing squarely within the context of international diplomacy the progr…

Sequences from the 5′ end of the control region of 190 chaffinches in 19 population samples from north Africa and Europe have a coalescence time of 670,000 ybp which is also the age of the oldest population in the Tunisian locality of Nefza. About 360,000 ybp an expansion of the…

Building on work in European history on culture and identity, as well as recent trends in diplomatic history, I explore questions of imperialism, nationalism, identity, and Orientalism and examine how the British press and other forms of public discourse, such as theater and ser…

This study examines the way in which the ideas and perceptions of foreign visitors shape the identity of a place. It takes as its subject travel accounts written by European visitors to the Corinthia in Greece in the period between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. These…

The dissertation focuses on the intellectual origins of Revisionist Zionism during the political and ideological ferment of the period between the two world wars. Like other radical right-wing movements in Europe, Revisionist Zionism under the leadership of Ze'ev Jabotinsky was …

Krzysztof Kieślowski is regarded as one of the most universal Polish film directors. However, the author wishes to argue that his work was deeply rooted in his sense of Polishness. In terms of research methods, this thesis utilises the existing abundant li terature on nation and…

To date, no published research has focused on women's homelessness within the comparative housing context. This thesis bridges that gap. In doing so, the thesis fuses the three theoretical frameworks of welfare theory, comparative analysis and feminism and social policy to revea…

To many people, the term "medieval cosmopolitanism" might seem like a contradiction in terms. Even though the European Middle Ages is period that is routinely excluded from debates about transnational cultural phenomena, medieval travel narratives brim with episodes of encounter…

The coming to voice of the African woman is a topic of increasing importance in francophone African literary studies. Even more significant are the discourses that portray women who develop new subjectivities through the experience of displacement and while living in Europe. Thi…

This dissertation updates current models of cultural encounter, which tend to venerate European agency, by demonstrating that Europe's others co-constituted European representations. I argue that African thought shaped important European discussions and canonical texts, includin…

This study traces the representations of the Nizari Isma'ilis, or Assassins, in medieval European texts, a process revealing three different discourses about the sect. I argue that when the crusaders first encountered the Syrian branch of the sect, they sought to enter into an a…

The "rebordering of the Mediterranean" refers to the extension of European frontiers to include southern European countries in the mid-eighties, and to the construction of new social boundaries in the innerland. This dissertation explores the construction of social difference in…

This study analyzes the process of socioeconomic and political transformation of the Tunis Regency during the mid-nineteenth century. The main focus is on the origins and consequences of the financial crisis which shook the Regency during the 1860s leading to its bankruptcy and …

My dissertation investigates the fields of modern Islamology and Iranology and its late nineteenth and early twentieth-century context. In particular I argue that the discipline of Sufi mysticism--the academic study of Persian mystical poetry--was the site of national, gendered,…

Based upon the "hero-sacrifice" of Jungian psychology, Eliade's "eternal return" concept, Levi-Strauss' structuralism and Lloyds structurism, this thesis will argue that the "warrior messiah" archetype, as a tension-laden militant and evangelical cultural construct, will charact…