This history of a single district of Cairo explores the connections of the social fabric of Mamluk and early Ottoman society to the built environment. The al-Darb al-Ah[dotbelow]mar district of Cairo in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was composed of a few commercial and l…
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My dissertation thesis aims to illuminate how post-imperial Christian-Muslim oppositionality was discursively and practically constituted in a former Balkan dominion of the Ottoman Empire. I expose this process by analyzing the reshaping of individual land ownership during the p…
This dissertation examines struggles over land and community on the island of Ranongga, in Western Province of Solomon Islands (a small independent Pacific nation that was a British Protectorate from 1893 until it gained independence in 1978). In order to understand late twentie…
This dissertation explores the development of modern property administration and governance in the Ottoman Empire from the perspective of pastoral nomads. Utilizing both central state archival material and district court and land registers, the study combines analysis of governa…
Property disputes formed a crucial arena in which people's intimate lives intersected with the institutions of the colonial state. This dissertation examines the types of family property disputes that came before the colonial state, as well as the shifts in colonial adjudication…
Urban histories of race and housing currently ignore the daily conflicts over debt, occupancy, and autonomy that characterized the private market for shelter and home in the United States. The historical literature, instead, has concentrated on the role of government policy, eco…
This dissertation argues that a new kind of society has emerged in Mexico. The product of the political economic tendency toward complementing and, indeed, replacing labor wages with credit as a means to welfare, this new social formation can be aptly understood as the debtfare …
This dissertation locates the emergence of capitalism and modern state practice in the Persian Gulf port of Basra in elite manipulations of novel state instruments including land deeds, securitized guarantees, and nationality certificates. Globally, the nineteenth century witnes…
Letitia Carson arrived in Oregon from Missouri in 1845, accompanied by David Carson and their newborn child, a daughter named Martha. The Carsons settled in the Soap Creek Valley and took advantage of Oregon’s Provisional Government’s donation land claim program, living on 640 a…