Thesiss

My project draws on immigration history, urban social history, gender history, and the new cultural history of national identity, race, and empire. Based on four years of research in French archival and published sources, the dissertation explores the impact on the port city of …

This dissertation is a study of two episodes of mass mortality, in Marseilles during 1720-21, and in Aleppo, Syria, during 1761-62. Linked by trade ties, missionary outreach, and diplomatic contacts, the two cities were a microcosm of eighteenth-century relations across the Medi…