Between 1924 and 1932 room was made in the German gay and lesbian publication house Radszuweit Verlag for gender expansive topics not having to do with sexuality. Specifically, these new sections and periodicals addressed the experiences of transvestites, the first collective id…
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This thesis, which moves between social and cultural history, explores rural life and reform in the period between the First and Second World Wars. It argues that responses to the social and economic crisis in the countryside were shaped by a desire to return to a mythical past …
During the interwar period, civil-military relations between Army aviation leaders and civilian officials developed unevenly from confrontation to cooperation. In the early 1920s, rebellious airmen became entangled in politics as they tried to force the creation of an independen…
The discipline of international law in the interwar period played an important role and had a great relevance for foreign policy making. The American Society of International Law, established in 1906, was where debates and exchanges of opinion took place. American international …
This dissertation examines the determinants of states' foreign policy. In particular, it looks at core successor states to empires and argues that domestic institutions that regulate political competition are critical for understanding when a state is likely to pursue an aggress…
This thesis considers the hitherto unexplored question of modernism and non-fictional genres. Although modernist studies have long been attentive to the implications of modernism’s “manifestos”, and recent work on modernist magazines has shed new light on forms beyond poetry and…
This thesis examines patterns of mortality in interwar south Wales and assesses the relative influences of various social factors in determining those patterns. Chapters on income, expenditure, housing, environment, diet and medical services describe and evaluate the material co…
During World War I America and the Ottoman Empire broke diplomatic relations. The war destroyed the empire, and under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal a nationalist movement emerged, aiming to establish a modern Turkish nation state. On 7 August 1919, the State Department appoint…
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 dissertation follows the activism of Korean students in New York City and the trajectory of their American education as it applied to Korea’s colonization under the Empire of Japan. As a focused historical account of the educational experiences of Korean students in New Yor…
Although the United States began the process of establishing a dedicated air defense force within the United States Coast Artillery beginning in World War I, the development of this key capability has been largely neglected in comparison to the aviation forces that it was design…
"Strikes and Strikeouts: Building An Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Working Class Sports Culture From Below in the United States, 1918-1950." My dissertation exposes the hidden history of how left-wing activists in the United States engaged with sports as a participatory activity for…