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…
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This dissertation argues that the figure of Tipu Sultan and the spectacle of the Mysore Wars were a key contributor to shifting British attitudes about empire in the late eighteenth century. Tipu was the ruler of the Indian state of Mysore, acknowledged by contemporaries to be a…
This dissertation combines two broad topics—the expansion of primary education and the development of national identities—in a case study of late Imperial Russia. It concentrates on the expansion of educational opportunities for non-Russian ethnic groups living in St. Petersburg…
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…
According to most scholarly inquiries in Ethiopian studies, forceful incorporation and submission were the main mechanisms by which empire was built and sustained. Power is often associated with an “elite ethnic” group identified as Amhara whose particular characteristics are de…
In the mid-nineteenth century, the French Imperium faced revolution in its capital and anti-colonial insurrection in Algeria. In each case, workers and tribes challenged France's emergent liberal order of private property, the civil code, and market relations. Though undertaken …
Defying our usual image of the late Qing as a victim of internal decline and diplomatic ineffectiveness, the empire exhibited surprising rigor in Kham Tibet in its last decade, suppressing monasteries, removing hereditary chieftains and fashioning localities in the image of Chin…
The dissertation is an analysis of the Russian relationship to Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. As a methodological approach, it uses the concepts of irredentism, Orientalism, and multi…
This dissertation is a study of how the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine participated in Roman religion. Scholars conventionally view Roman religion as a public phenomenon that served to promote social cohesion within the Roman state but did not provide for individual…
“Imperial Ways” pursues the complex relation between narrative practices and imperial ones through an analysis of England's engagement with Egypt in the thirty-year period leading up to England's 1875 purchase of the Suez Canal, an event which led directly to Egypt's colonizatio…
Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Chinese Catholic converts localized Christianity in their communities. This process involved the appropriation of Catholic ritual and devotional elements. Owing to their rich archival records, as well as to their unint…
This dissertation examines representations of Englishness in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing (1950), and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969), and argues that ideas of home/land are central to Englis…
This dissertation is a historical ethnographic study on the act of reading in late imperial China. Focusing on the practice and representation of reading, I present a mosaic of how reading was conceptualized, perceived, conducted, and transmitted from the tenth to the eighteenth…
The following research is a case study of the creation, structure and maintenance of dominant and subordinate identities in Ethiopian imperial and post-imperial society. The study identifies: (1) how dominant and subordinate identities occur, (2) their impact upon sustainable go…
This dissertation is concerned with the Chinese Muslim literati elite of the early modern period. Through examination of the literatures put forth by this elite over the course of a century and a half (roughly 1600-1750) it demonstrates that the Chinese Muslim scholarly communit…