In a preliminary study, somatic and zygotic embryos of soybean cv. Jack were analyzed for soluble carbohydrate, total lipids and protein during development. These studies demonstrated that the composition of Jack zygotic embryos is similar to that described for other cvs. during…
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This thesis consists of three essays, each of which examines a significant event in the economic history of Indonesia using economic theory and econometric methods. In the first essay, production functions for sugar in four major sugar-producing residencies of Cultivation System…
This dissertation explores the practice of the state in southern Egypt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing from Egyptian, French, and British state archives as well as a wide range of technical and colonial literature, it challenges the conceptualiz…
In 19th-Century America, upper- and middle-class sites of ice cream consumption were exclusive landscapes that conveyed through their design and advertisement ideals formed in European spa culture a century before. European spas promoted pastoralism, escapism, health, and leisur…
In Labor, Race & Visuality in Argentina’s Sugar Industry 1868-1904 I examine the relationship between racialization and mechanization in the growing sugar industry in Argentina’s northern province of Tucuman in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that the …
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first one focuses on Colombia after 1850 and measures the impact of the expropriation of Church's assets on political violence. With yearly data on the number of battles per municipality, archival information on the reform, and dif…
At stake in this thesis is how architects engage with multiple histories, and the material expression of this entanglement. This thesis makes its design project out of an existing sugar union in Crockett, California. It draws upon the material histories of sugar, lumber, and lab…