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England’s Worldly King: The Foreign, the Global, and the Rise of Cultural Cosmopolitanism at the Court of Henry VIII
It is the premise of this study that in the Tudor period there developed a new sense ofbeing/feeling ‘cosmopolitan’ – i.e. a citizen of the world - that was distinct from the original, political, meaning of this term and ... -
European capitalist penetration of Tunisia, 1860-1881: a case study of the regency's debt crisis and the establishment of the international financial commission
(1998)This study analyzes the process of socioeconomic and political transformation of the Tunis Regency during the mid-nineteenth century. The main focus is on the origins and consequences of the financial crisis which shook ... -
Eve of Destruction: A Social History of Vietnam’s Royal City, 1957 – 1967
This research project illuminates how war transformed the social life of ordinary people in the city of Huế in central Vietnam, from the establishment of the University of Huế in 1957 to the Tết Offensive of January 1968. ... -
Fred Morrow Fling: Scientific Historian
(1967)It will be pointed out in this paper that Fred Morrow Fling was a product of his times, and that his assumptions and attitudes toward history were in many ways those of the scientific historians. In discussing his career ... -
From "Little Brown Brothers" to "Forgotten Asian Americans": Race, Space, and Empire in Filipino Los Angeles
(2014-04-30)Through archival research, close readings of literary works, and oral histories, this dissertation traces the various formations of Filipino American urban space in Los Angeles from the 1920s to the 1980s under the backdrop ... -
Frontier management and tribute relations along the Empire's southern border: China and Vietnam in the 10th and 11th centuries
(1999)From the founding of the Song dynasty (960--1279), the Chinese court at Kaifeng treated the Viẹt people of the Hong River Delta differently from other neighboring societies that supported or competed with the new Chinese ... -
Gateway Cities: Seattle and Vancouver on the Pacific, 1896-1939
“Gateway Cities” explores the cultural and material production of settler colonialism in the urban waterfronts of Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, between the 1890s and 1930s. It charts the making of ... -
Germany's Catholic fraternities and the Weimar Republic
(2007)This project examines the relationship of Catholic fraternities to the politics and culture of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Through the last century, Catholic fraternity alumni have served as German chancellors, ... -
Gift Exchange among States in East Asia during the Eleventh Century
(2013-11-14)In the year of 1005 the Liao and the Song concluded the Shanyuan treaty and it initiated the peace between these two states, which was conditioned to exchange biannual envoy missions: on New Year's day and imperial birthdays. ... -
"Graunted of the Bysshop Honde": the meaning and uses of the sacrament of confirmation from its inception through the Middle Ages
(2003)This dissertation is a social history of the sacrament of confirmation in western Christianity from its beginnings in the early third century through the Middle Ages. It is an exploration of the meanings attached to the ... -
Growing Up Soviet? The Orphans of Stalin's Revolution and Understanding the Soviet Self
(2013-02-25)This dissertation explores the history of the "orphans of Stalin's revolution": the hundreds of thousands of children who grew up under the care (or neglect) of the Soviet state after losing their parents to Stalin's harsh ... -
A history of the Washington State labor movement, 1885-1935
(1978)Over the years, historians have produced a number of fine works on various aspects of the Washington State labor movement. Unfortunately, they have tended to concentrate their attentions on a few incidents, organizations, ... -
A history of women faculty at the University of Washington, 1896-1970
(1984)In 1896 the University of Washington set out to become an institution committed to research and the furthering of knowledge, not merely to its transmission as was the case in the first thirty years of its existence. In its ... -
History writing and late Muscovite court culture: a study of Andrei Lyzlov's History of the Scythians
(1991)This dissertation studies Andrei Lyzlov's History of the Scythians, a work composed in 1692 by a Muscovite nobleman that is part of the late seventeenth century polemical campaign urging war against the Crimean Khanate and ... -
The Horse: Conspicuous Consumption of Embodied Masculinity in South Asia, 1600-1850
(2014-02-24)In this dissertation, I analyze the role the horse and horse culture played in early modern South Asia through the lens of the genre of horse treatises (<italic>farasnama</italic>) produced in the Subcontinent in Persian. ... -
Horsemen from the Edge of Empire: The Rise of the Jurchen Coalition
(2012-09-13)This dissertation examines the formation and rise of the Jurchen Coalition under the leadership of the Anchuhu Wanyan clan during the late 11th and early 12th centuries. The Anchuhu Wanyan utilized their political and ... -
In and Out: Food, the Body, and Social Hierarchies in Roman Household
Providing a distinct window into the social and political developments of the early Principate, my dissertation takes up various lived experiences in domestic settings to probe Roman notions of embodiment. It offers a ... -
In the end the land: settlement of the Columbia Basin Project
(2004)Federal reclamation of the nation's acid west was rooted in part in its potential to further the spread of the family-owned and family-operated farm. The Columbia Basin Project (CBP) in central Washington is the single ...