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This Dissertation examines the early, pre-Marxist years of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement from a wider perspective of European intellectual and cultural history. The movement originated in the Habsburg province of eastern Galicia around 1911 and was founded in Vienna in 1916. D…

This is a case study in the 1990s of the relationship between shifting knowledge and changing landscape for a small community of people living in the high Karakoram valley of Hunza, a political division of north-east Pakistan. The study was based on the Hunza Slide Catalog-Colle…

Through an examination of the letters, reports and published writings of the missionaries of two distinctive Protestant missions active in the Kurdish region during the nineteenth century, this thesis explores the Orientalist and imperialist qualities of missionary knowledge pro…

This thesis examines Shrovetide, the significant yet understudied pre-Lenten Carnival of medieval and early modern Britain. Filling scholarly lacunae in Carnival studies and British festive studies, it also develops a novel approach to premodern festive culture which emphasizes …

Arthur Ingram and Lionel Cranfield were part of the early modern phenomenon of social mobility, rising from humble merchants to titled gentlemen in one generation. Cranfield, especially, reached significant heights in a matter of years. Despite the fact both men have merited bio…

This thesis sets out to re-locate and redefine the historical arguments around the development of the Modern Movement in architecture. It investigates the development of architectural modernism in Central Europe from 1895-1939 in the towns and cities of the multinational Habsbur…

This dissertation investigates the relationship between Hollywood's seemingly overnight development into the nation's first mass culture industry and women's roles as industry workers, fans, and social critics in shaping and defining the sexual and racial politics of postwar Ame…

Ekpu Oro ancestral figures existed as summaries of the personal and social experiences of the Oron people of Southeastern Nigeria---they embodied Oron spiritual beliefs and cultural history; hence, were vessels for the spirits of the dead that instilled great influence over the …

This thesis examine the cultural interaction between Anishinabe people, who lived in what is now southern Ontario, and the Loyalists, Euroamerican settlers who moved north from the United States during and after the American Revolution. Starting with an analysis of Anishinabe cu…

This study is a social and cultural history of soccer in Egypt, from its rise in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present. The major argument of this study is that soccer in Egypt can be examined as part and parcel of the political, social, and economic transfor…

Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit konnten erstmals aus 27 Provinzen, Autonomen Regionen und Regierungsunmittelbaren Städten Chinas 51.536 archäologische Fundplätze vom frühen Neolithikum bis zur frühen Eisenzeit aus den in der chinesischen Buchreihe „Atlas der Kulturdenkmäler Chinas“ verö…

This dissertation analyzes the complexity of popular religious trends under a nominally secular government through the examination of prophecy during the French July Monarchy period (1830–1848). Throughout this era, several diverse individuals claimed to be the recipients of sup…

This dissertation argues that network television was a vehicle for the promotion and enactment of female intellectualism in the US during the period directly following World War II. Beginning in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, network television included among its offer…

Cali’s Festival, known as the local feria or the “Sugarcane Festival” is now recognized as one of Colombia’s largest urban celebrations. Inaugurated in 1957, right in the midst of bloody political confrontations, the feria occurred every December and was promoted since its incep…

Marie-Antoinette apparaît aujourd’hui aux Etats-Unis comme un personnage éblouissant. Tout comme la Chimère, monstre mythologique auquel la propagande révolutionnaire l’avait comparée, Marie-Antoinette présente une image composite aux facettes apparemment inconciliables : celle …

This dissertation examines the Canadian National Exhibition and its site, Exhibition Place in Toronto, to explore the changing constellation of meanings surrounding public architecture over the past century. It reveals the cultural, financial, spatial and emotional dimensions of…

Over forty-five films made in Nazi Germany foregrounded classical music, despite the reluctance of film composers to quote the classics and worries on the part of the musicological establishment that cinema could only “trivialize” the “great masters.” But rather than flaunting t…

This dissertation looks at the American Revolution from a new perspective, which is a Loyalist perspective, and from a new interpretation, which explains the domestic conflicts in the American Revolution by exploring the cultural presuppositions that shaped Loyalist and Patriot …

This dissertation tells the story of how mathematics was made American. Like other American sciences, mathematics in the United States shifted during the Progressive Era from practical and educational activities toward research. Unlike other American sciences, however, American …

Places matter to people, especially the familiar places that embody their personal and cultural histories and support the social interactions and routines of everyday life. My primary goal in this dissertation is to show how the mattering of places to people is at root an aesthe…