This thesis examines the origin and consequences of the French Republican calendar in relation to eighteenth-century temporality. It assesses the extent of the calendar's use, examines the cultural and political meanings that it assumed, and argues that the temporal order of soc…
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The question I pursue, both within the terms of J. G. A. Pocock's analysis of Atlantic-republican tradition and upon the geographical insights of Yi-Fu Tuan, is this: is it possible that imagining Islamic civilization actually helped an extraordinary mind like Washington Irving'…
'Turkish Republican citizenship and rights to the city' explores the significance of the city in the constitutions, contestations, and transformations of Turkish citizenship. While it focuses on the republican era after 1923, it also takes into account the nineteenth century ref…
This dissertation examines the politics of child welfare in the context of nation-state building in the early Turkish republic (1920-1940). It elaborates struggles by republican elites to define the role of the state and private institutions in providing care to poor or orphaned…
This paper analyzes the editorials of two St. Louis newspapers during the Civil War (1861–1865), the Daily Missouri Democrat and the Daily Missouri Republican. It argues that the two papers attempted to create different definitions of loyalty to the Union and contrasting visions…
By the mid-twentieth century, Blacks in the United States had left what was known as the “Party of Lincoln” and moved towards supporting Democrats and left-wing candidates and policies both locally and nationally. This shift in Black politics has led to American society broadly …
In the past 60 years, the number of low-to-working class White voters who have deserted the Democratic Party and instead support Republican candidates has steadily increased. Low-to-working-class Americans of other races have not abandoned the Democratic Party in comparable ways…
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, crucial processes of political and economic liberalizations transformed the political landscape in much of the post-colonial world. The reigning theory of modernization which was pegged in the era of political emancipation to nat…
The educational system in the Turkish Republic during the Atatürk period was an instrument for change in many aspects of government and society. Following the establishment of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Republican elite instituted secular, nationalist reforms in…