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This thesis studies social protest in colonial Korea (1910-1945). In the first two chapters, I study protest by Koreans against the Japanese colonial authority. In particular, I focus on the March First Movement in 1919, the largest anti-colonial independence movement during the…

The Sharecropping system in the 19th and 20th century in North Carolina had a significant impact on the African-American community. Blacks were liberated and wanting to excel in American society. But due to Jim Crow and racist Southern whites, African Americans still found thems…

This study aims to analyze how Hanafi law defined sharecropping and tenancy agreements, and tenant/landlord rights and obligations in the context of Ottoman Syria from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. With the increasing prevalence of sharecropping arra…