This dissertation identifies how four contemporary Iberian crime fiction novels similarly construct a paranoid reading. The project’s novels include: Secretos de Arenal by Félix González Mondroño (2014), Els ossos soterrats by Silvestre Vilaplana (2016), Res no és real by David …
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As the Second World War in Europe came to an end the Russians advanced from the east towards Berlin. German occupation of Poland and Czechoslovakia had been particularly brutal. Both of these countries, products of German defeat at the end of World War I contained millions of et…
As the long 19th century drew to a close in the Ottoman Middle East, existing structures of power, legitimacy and knowledge came under increasing strain. The certainties of rank, faith and gender fell away in the face of several internal and external challenges. One of the most …
This project examines the interplay between memory, history, and politics relating to Spanish Republican memories of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the following authoritarian dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). In my analysis of this relationship, I focus on th…
This dissertation looks at the American Revolution from a new perspective, which is a Loyalist perspective, and from a new interpretation, which explains the domestic conflicts in the American Revolution by exploring the cultural presuppositions that shaped Loyalist and Patriot …
The mutually constitutive relationship between constructions of social identity and collective memory is mediated by cultural tools. Across four studies, I explored the relationship between ethnic and national identity and engagement with the final report of the Commission for H…
Stories about `Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr, his brother, Mus[dotbelow]`ab, and their roles in the contest over the caliphate during the second civil war are used in this study to examine how later Muslims remembered particular figures and events from early Islamic history. A number o…