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The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans And The Finnish Civil War, Christopher Malmberg
The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans And The Finnish Civil War, Christopher Malmberg
History Dissertations
Historical research on Finnish migration and Finnish-Americans has, until recently, been carried out by members of the Finnish-American community and as such has written out the role of Finnish-Americans in the radical labor movement, as well as their reactions to the Finnish Civil War. In some regards it could be argued that the Finnish Civil War was also fought in America, with newspapers used in battles instead of guns. Finnish-American workers’ response to the civil war, combined with Finnish-Americans’ involved in the nationalization process of Finland, illustrates the transnational nature of seemingly national events. To help create what Benedict Anderson …
A Shared Authority? Museums Connect, Public Diplomacy, And Transnational Public History, Richard J. W. Harker
A Shared Authority? Museums Connect, Public Diplomacy, And Transnational Public History, Richard J. W. Harker
History Dissertations
Museums Connect stands at the intersection of public history and public diplomacy. The program, which has both public history and public diplomacy agendas, is sponsored by the United States Department of State and administered by the American Alliance of Museums. This dissertation examines the competing impulses of transnational public history and public diplomacy made manifest in Museums Connect and its ramifications for public history theory and practice. The project demonstrates both the seeming similarities between public history’s ideas of shared authority, dialogic museum practice, and community engagement and public diplomacy’s “people-to-people” diplomacy, as well as the limits of these similarities. …
Otherness And Belonging In “Democratic Empires”: The Syrian Diaspora And Transatlantic Discourses Of Identity, 1890s-1930s, Bryan A. Garrett
Otherness And Belonging In “Democratic Empires”: The Syrian Diaspora And Transatlantic Discourses Of Identity, 1890s-1930s, Bryan A. Garrett
History Dissertations
This dissertation examines the arguments that Syrians in diaspora at the turn of the twentieth century used in constructing their group identity. It traces the transnational and transimperial discourses that centered on the pack-peddler mythology, or rather, it traces the diaspora intelligentsia’s narrative for the business diaspora. Their narrative framed the business elites as the quintessence of upward mobility in the modern world. The historiography of this subfield has been separated into two camps: one that takes for granted the assimilation of the business class into Western societies, and the other that offers a more critical rendering of Syrian migrant …