This study examines the religious and historical literature of the Teutonic Order, the brotherhood of warrior-monks whose northern crusade subdued and converted the eastern Baltic region during the late Middle Ages.Chapter ...

The public anti-communist campaign of Senator Joseph McCarthy had a lasting impact on the conduct of U.S. foreign relations, particularly among professional diplomatic institutions like the State Department and its Foreign ...

This dissertation argues that, from the twilight of the Spanish colonial era through the entire official American colonial insular period, the history of authority over money in the colonial Philippines reveals the emerging ...

In framing the history of field sciences most historians emphasize terrestrial sites rather than marine ones. But, to ignore marine spaces is to omit an extensive geography to which the abstract notion of "the field" has ...

My dissertation examines complex socioeconomic issues surrounding the postcolonial transition in Indonesia by focusing on the history of Palembang and the discourse of the "region" in 1950s' Indonesia. By examining these ...

This study investigates the development of public identity and heritage in Red Lodge, Montana between 1889 and the 1990s. Like many western towns, Red Lodge is the creation of a variety of forces and its public identity ...

This dissertation examines the role played by conceptions of human being in the intellectual and cultural life of the two German states in the early decades of the Cold War. In the wake of the crimes of the National Socialist ...

It has been a common assumption among Chinese historians that the Sung dynasty was militarily weak and that the military was closely controlled by the civil government. Yet, little effort has been made to define the ...