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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Imperial History"”.
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BRICK
… explores the role of transfemininity in Western imperial history and imagination. The text engages with themes of sisterhood, trauma, and ideology through the lens of transfeminism as they relate to history, family, and the state. <em>Brick </em>is the search for chosen family and a place of …
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Hybridizing Sovietness, Modernity, Nationality and Provinciality in Uzbekistan, 1941–1984
… hybridity is informed by the methodology of new imperial history, which is another productive way to transcend the scope of Central Asian Studies and join the global conversation of historians about such topics as human agency and political domination, preservation of tradition and negotiation of …
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Dreams of Empire: The Japanese Agricultural Colonization of Manchuria (1931--1945) in History and Memory
… focuses on the main agents of Japan's renewed imperial drive: the agricultural colonists themselves. The ""Great Men"" of Japanese imperial history such as Goto Shinpei and Ishiwara Kanji, unfortunately, have long overshadowed the far more numerous agricultural colonists. Where historians have …
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Genre and Empire: Historical Romance and Sixteenth-Century Chinese Cultural Fantasies
… reader convey sentiments of proto-nationalism, imperialism, and pleasure. Contextualizing the fiction in its contemporary political discourses and its literary evolution in history, the dissertation concentrates on fictional images, i.e., religious practitioners, women, demons, and categories of …
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The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
… study explores the ways in which natural history, myth and folklore, craft knowledge, and religion contributed to a growing body of knowledge about the wind at a moment in British history when wind knowledge assumed unprecedented political and economic significance. How did people come to …
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Imperial designs: fashion, cosmetics, and cultural identity in Japan, 1931-1943
… analyzes how women and gender shaped Japanese imperial culture at home by examining fashion and cosmetics in the 1930s and 1940s. In contrast to conventional narratives of Japanese imperial history that posit Japan’s nation- and empire-building projects as separate entities, one extending out …
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The English settlement of St Christopher, 1624 - 1629
… of North America. A considerable weakness of imperial history lies in the lack of representation of the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies during this time. By incorporating approaches from the Atlantic perspective and also pan-Caribbean historians, including the use of ethnographical …
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Manifest Manhood on the Santa Fe Trail: Trapping and Trading in the American Southwest, 1821-1847
… focuses attention on the transnational and trans-imperial flow of people, commodities, and social meanings which occurs in a larger, more fluid imperial process. While traditional scholarship identifies the war and the cession of the northern one-half of Mexico to the United States that followed …
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Black British subjects in Cuba: race, ethnicity, nation, and identity in the migratory experience, 1898-1938
This thesis examines the history of black British Caribbean migrants in Cuba during the early twentieth century. It centres on their experience of social and racial discrimination within Cuban society, and how this was influenced by the historical legacy of black fear in Cuba and the social, …
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Crafting Citizens Beyond Borders: Japanese Education on the Frontier of Japan’s Empire in the Americas
… My research expands on Japanese transnational imperial history to showcase a global network of education, through which Japan fostered simultaneous civic and moral connection to Japan in different territories around the world. From Hawaiʻi to Peru and beyond, ideas of nikkei citizenship were …
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False Universalism of Global Governance Theories: Global Constitutionalism, Global Administrative Law, International Criminal Institutions and the Global South
… law ignore and obscure the colonial and imperial history of international law and its institutions. By ignoring international laws lineage, scholars are not able to accurately theorise contemporary global governance through constitutionalism and administration. Without the inclusion of …
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The origins of American history in the early modern English Atlantic world
… is the story of how the English wrote the history of America between c. 1500 and c. 1700. Utilizing printed and manuscript sources, it argues that writing American history allowed English writers to navigate, negotiate, and contest the terms of a developing Atlantic empire. In doing so, the …
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While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination
… moments of political crisis in the early imperial period. In three chapters, I follow the intersection of urban fires and claims to power, as expressed both in urban space and in the literary city of Rome, during three critical periods from early imperial history: Augustan, Neronian, and …
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Beyond the outfield: Baseball fiction and historical fantasy, 1864-present
… Fantasy, 1864-Present considers baseball’s imperial and racist past and traces the ways in which fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries imagines alternative possibilities within this history. My goal is, in part, to materially interrogate the mythologies and …
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An Empire of Possibilities: Education in Fascist Italy’s African Colonies, 1922-1943
This dissertation is the first imperial history of education in fascist Italy’s African colonies (1922-1943). It integrates pedagogic discussions and school policies with lived experiences at school, addressing education as a window into colonial encounters in Eritrea, Somalia, Tripolitania, …
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From Science in the Arctic to Arctic Science: A Transnational Study of Arctic Travel Narratives, 1818-1883
… of Arctic phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identity, and international collaboration. By framing polar surveying in the broadest sense as the ordering and quantifying of nature through travel, I analyse how abstract notions of the Arctic became tangible in the …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
"The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China" argues that Romantic literature shaped nineteenth-century interimperial exchanges between Britain and China. This project bridges two bodies of literary scholarship immersed in Anglo-Sino discourse: eighteenth-century scholarship, which reveals British …
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Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan
… The first section of my work argues that imperial Japan colonized Okinawa especially through targeting women and gendered bodily practices within a complex system of '"nested colonialisms." In this process, Okinawans actively participated in constituting an ethno-racial hierarchy that …
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Displacing War Experience: Military Technology and the More-than-Human Politics of Empire
… that foregrounds the role of technology in the imperial history of world politics. I ask: What are the historical and conceptual relations between military technology and the embodied experience of war? How do they shape strategic and political discussions on the role of martial violence? How …
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Work-family responsibilities and support for women academics in Pakistan
Globally women have a long history of negotiating between public and private life. While each individual woman undertakes such negotiation, all women’s lives are already shaped by historical, political, religious and cultural forces. This study focused on contemporary academic women in Pakistan and …
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