Identity can be a difficult concept to grasp for oppressed and marginalized groups of people. It is particularly challenging for Mexican individuals to deal with the lingering effects of colonization to try and make sense of who they are most fundamentally. Identity can be a dif…
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This research focuses on cross-border acquisitions of emerging market multinationals (EM MNEs). Opposing theoretical perspectives of colonial ties (i.e., country ties between the acquiring and target firm countries, with the former being a colonized country and the latter being …
This thesis investigates the rights of women under Islamic law, focusing on mothers and their children and comparing traditional Islamic law with the contemporary Lebanese legal system. The approach chosen here is to examine the laws pertaining to nasab (lineage). My analysis of…
Throughout history, Cameroon has been a site of refuge for people of different origins. The penetration of Islam as early as the eighth century and, later, both the trans-Saharan and the Atlantic slave trades created a vast movement of people inside the African continent. Coloni…
This dissertation examines the settlement of Russian religious dissenters (Dukhobors, Molokans, and Subbotniks) in Transcaucasia from 1830 to 1890. During this period, tsarist officials promoted the relocation of sectarians (sektanty) to Transcaucasia--to the exclusion of other …
This dissertation examines the Chinese migration to Inner Mongolia, especially the Hetao/Ordos region, from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, and explores how the Mongol periphery was transformed by processes of market penetration and state expansion, and how domest…
This work studies the rehabilitation of twenty-six thousand French republicans punished for their opposition to Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's 1851 coup d'état. Weeks after the government deported thousands of its political opponents to penal colonies in Algeria and French Guiana, e…
Although urbanization in Ethiopia is at its embroynic stage, most urban scholars have characterized the history of urbanization in Ethiopia into three categories. These are urbanization in the (a) pre-Italian period (1900-1935); (b) Italian colonization period (1936-1941); and (…
The expansion of western European culture along the Slavic frontier during the Middle Ages, first as a missionary movement, then as a program of settlement, colonization, and urbanization, is the subject of this dissertation. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries migrants—…
As a result of late 20th-century immigration patterns, workplace change and labor practices, a fast-paced, American hospitality/service concessionaire at a large, Midwestern, international airport found itself staffed predominantly by immigrants and refugees (primarily Ethiopian…
This dissertation examines the constellation of forces that precipitated the Zionist movement and Jewish colonization of Palestine. The primary goals are to identify and contrast the aspirations and final objectives of the Biluim and halutzim, the pioneers of the first and secon…
My dissertation examines the history of the Portuguese occupation of four cities—Safi, Azamor, Mazagão, and Santa Cruz—and a large portion of southern Moroccan territory during the first half of the sixteenth century. From 1505, the Portuguese redirected their previously amicabl…
This dissertation focuses on post-colonial subjects who contest the idea of a coherent, unitary national identity in order to affirm their own multicultural identities. The study is theoretically based in postcolonial theories that illustrate the ways in which the narratives of …
My thesis examines the economic contexts of early modern colonization, discussing how domestic concerns of class and status influenced English colonial practice. The anxieties over cultural borders demonstrated by attempts to control travelers, mariners, vagrants, and residual C…
This study investigates the politics of violence in colonization and decolonization in selected postcolonial plays with the application of Frantz Fanon's philosophy of revolutionary decolonization. Fanon argues that since colonialism is violent in nature, it can be defeated only…
This dissertation brings together an apparently disparate set of literary and legal texts to explore the legacy of British colonialism in the New World. While the mandate of postcolonial studies has been to challenge the literary and political canons and norms of the colonial pe…
During the nineteenth century picturing Africa was an act of appropriation primarily because representations presented the continent itself as a commodity. I propose that the idea of “knowability” through representation is at the heart of colonization and creates the perception …
This Dissertation is an exercise in critical political theory. It examines the idea of the nation, as it evolved in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into the modern version of the territorial nation-state. It will later examine the extent to which writings fr…
In April 1853 the efforts of a group of Swiss capitalists from Geneva finally came to fruition when they obtained a land grant from the French government in the region of Sétif in Algeria. It marked the beginning of a Swiss involvement in the country that lasted for over one hun…