Democratic societies, such as the United States, routinely allow citizens the right to protest and often have constitutional guarantees that protect that right. Periodically throughout history, the American people have utilized their right to protest. In recent years, social mov…
It is well established in the financial economics literature that potential gains from international diversification are generated from the imperfect correlation between national stock market returns. This empirical study explores the factors that impede perfect integration amon…
The proposed project is motivated by the outstanding need for an accessible English translation of Yik Kalima (One Word), written in Persian and Arabic in 1875 by Mīrzā Yusef Khān Tabryzy (1813-1895). The book's main argument is a proposal for a revolutionary aim in modernizing …
This dissertation was mainly based upon the Manchu and Chinese criminal archives related to the Qing period Huijiang, a Muslim frontier where the main population were Huiren, a Turkic-speaking Muslim group, collected in the First Historical Archives in Beijing. It discusses how …