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The global expansion of France during the nineteenth century is one of the most significant phenomena in modern French history. It was animated by an official creed, referred to as the “mission civilisatrice ” or “mission to civilize,” that established boundaries for what the Fr…

This dissertation focuses on slaves and peasants as self-consciousness actors in northwestern Sierra Leone between 1896 to 1956. During this period, which covers almost the entire duration of British colonial rule in the region, these subaltern groups used covert and violent act…

Based primarily on eighteenth-century criminal records from the Court of Aldermen in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), this dissertation explores the way in which demographic and economic constraints influenced colonial law, and details the effects of these forces on the female unde…

Cette thèse explore l'évolution parallèle entre la Louisiane et la Sénégambie sous la domination française en particulier. Le peuplement de la Louisiane durant cette période a été marqué par l'arrivée de nombreux esclaves noirs venant de la Sénégambie. Cette spécificité démograp…

In this thesis, I examine the musical and social performance of the class of musicians known as singing slave girls in the early Islamic court at Baghdad from 661 to 950CE as seen through their representation in three 9th century texts. The singing slave girls, called qayna in A…

This dissertation explores the role of moral imperialism in the late nineteenth century expansion of the British Empire using East Africa as a case study. Moral imperialism, the ideology that argued that the British had a moral duty to "civilize," "Christianize," "uplift," and e…

A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity. While previous historians have focused their energies on defining the legal status o…