Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"U.S. Empire"”.
-
From military government to bases: Race, gender, and U.S. empire in Korea
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 107364 Lift date: 2020-09-04T20:47:38Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
-
Reading foreign policy archives: how regime-made disasters, pointillism, and citizen-perpetrators underpin U.S. Empire-building
<p>This political project analyzes documents within the foreign policy archives of the Bush Jr., Obama, and Trump administrations to tell a story of how U.S. imperial relations are constructed to reproduce differential rule, exploitation, and the distribution of subject positions. Through a …
-
Empire Rules: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
… multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. (MELUS) and empire. Namely, contemporary MELUS invites a reckoning with U.S. Empire, an amalgamation of settler colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, which works through ahistorical and transhistorical cultural narratives. In turn, contemporary multi-ethnic …
-
New Destinations of Empire: Imperial Migration from the Marshall Islands to Northwest Arkansas
… size in the past three decades. I examine U.S. empire through three interrelated lenses: through an imperial policy, the Compact of Free Association (COFA); through an imperial diaspora, the Marshallese diaspora; and through the town of Springdale, Arkansas, a new immigrant destination for …
-
The appearance of Filipina nationalism: body, nation, empire
… transnational approaches to histories of U.S. empire—approaches that take the gendered, sexed and raced body into account. Colonial regimes maintained power through the racialization and sexualization of Filipinas, a process that promoted U.S. hierarchies of white supremacy and colonial …
-
Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaiʻi and the Philippines, c. 1880-1930
… accompanied the 1898 arrival of formal U.S. empire, though in very different ways. In Hawai‘i, missionaries’ 1820 entrance prefigured annexation, giving rise to a hegemonic white settler society with missionaries and their descendants at its core. On the other hand, there were no Protestants …
-
At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period
… Period charts discourses of folk culture, empire and modernity in the works of six African American and Caribbean writers. Each of the dissertation's three sections pairs a writer from the U.S. with a writer from the Anglophone, Francophone or Spanish-speaking Caribbean: Jean Toomer and …
-
Maintaining the empire: diplomacy and education in U.S.-Ecuadorian relations, 1933-1963
… continue to explore the maintenance of the U.S. Empire in the Third World. Some argue that coercion was the driving force. Others suggest that consent played a role. Settling this debate is difficult given the unbalanced state of the historiography, which is overloaded with analyses of …
-
The Politics of Care: Historical Retrieval in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
… imperial violence in the building of the U.S. empire. Drawing upon Asian American studies, women of color feminism, and feminist refugee epistemologies, I argue that post-war Vietnamese American cultural production resists liberal time’s desire for closure by calling attention to the ongoing …
-
Between two worlds: Americans and Soviets after the Bolshevik Revolution
… and aid workers through outposts of U.S. empire. Highlighting movement and multidirectional interaction, these histories challenge pervasive narratives about Americans and Russians as nationally, ideologically, and culturally divergent.
-
Posthuman War: Race, Gender, Technology, and the Making of U.S. Military Futures
… that are built into the foundations of U.S. empire. It argues that in this context, the posthuman as well as the human remain exclusionary political categories that have their sense made through processes of gendering and racialization, in spite of military discourses of …
-
Medical modernity: Rethinking the health work of Filipina women under Spanish and U.S. colonial rule, 1870-1948
“Medical Modernity: Rethinking the Health Work of Filipina Women Under Spanish and U.S. Colonial Rule, 1870-1948,” is a history of colonial medicine from the perspective of women who had a range of health encounters with colonial officials. It makes three claims. First, I argue that modern medicine …
-
Archipelagoes of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i
… of plantcestors to analyze the United States Empire from the ground up, both in relation to the modes of violence that precipitate movement, alienation, and extraction and with regards to the grounded strategies of humans most marginalized from imperial centers of power. I posit that my field …
-
Mining bodies: U.S. medical experimentation in Guatemala during the twentieth century
Mining Bodies explores the history of U.S. experimentation in the Central American and Caribbean region during the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on experiments conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), and the Guatemalan government …
-
Building bodies, (un)making empire: gender, sport, and colonialism in the United States, 1880-1930
… communities. “Building Bodies, (Un)Making Empire” argues that sport and physical education were sites of decolonization and contestation between Native students and government employees at Haskell Institute, a federal off-reservation Indian boarding school in Lawrence, Kansas. Specifically, …
-
The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
… significantly advanced the publicity efforts of empire boosters, while furthering the imperial aspirations of the two cities. San Diego used its fair to exert control over the U.S. Southwest in an effort to forge an inland empire that would position the city as an imperial hub. The PCE employed …
-
Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… among Latin Americans threatened by U.S. empire. Chapter 1 studies the Wilson-era writers who codify Mexico’s people and politics for American audiences during and after the Mexican Revolution. In contrast to the U.S.’s pro-revolutionary policy during the Spanish-American War, during the …
-
Wide open spaces: place, empire, and U.S.-indigenous relations, 1816-1907
Wide Open Spaces: Place, Empire, and U.S.-Indigenous Relations, 1816-1907 investigates the changing borders of the U.S. settler nation-state and Native nations throughout the nineteenth century. The project looks at three key sites, Florida, Cuba, and Oklahoma, to unpack how statehood debates …