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This dissertation argues that American narratives of infantry combat essentially take shape as stories about the geographical environment in which the ground fighting occurs. Within the combat subgenre, the geographies of foreign war zones are integral mechanisms in the formatio…

Based on fifteen months of field research, this dissertation investigates the cultural politics of “peace” in contemporary Israel during the Labor administration of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres (1992–1996) as the government negotiated the terms of the “Middle East Peace Proces…

The merchants recorded in the Cairo Geniza appear to be perfectly situated to carry on cosmopolitan trade throughout the Mediterranean and Islamic Asia. From their center in the Egyptian capital, family ties connected them from Spain to Persia, while Jewish religious authority r…