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Securitizing British India: A New Framework Of Analysis For The First Anglo-Afghan War, Mark F. Honnen
Securitizing British India: A New Framework Of Analysis For The First Anglo-Afghan War, Mark F. Honnen
History Theses
The First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839-1842 was one of the most disastrous conflicts in the history of the British Empire. It caused the death of thousands and the annihilation of the Army of the Indus. Yet this defeat came after a successful invasion. In analyzing the actions of officials and officers of the British imperial state and the East India Company leading up to and during the invasion, I will argue that these actions served to securitize British India. Securitization is a process by which an actor takes a series of steps to persuade an audience that a specific referent …
Religious Intolerance In The Second Great Awakening: The Mormon Experience In Missouri, Stefanie M. Vaught
Religious Intolerance In The Second Great Awakening: The Mormon Experience In Missouri, Stefanie M. Vaught
History Theses
At the turn of the eighteenth century America was caught up in the fervor of religious revivals. These revivals began in the New England area and led to the largest conversion to Evangelicalism in US history. The revival movement became known as the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening experienced its greatest peak in the 1830's, at which point the revivals spread to many areas of America. The conflicted nature of the Second Great Awakening has led to a deep rift in the current historiography of America's religious past. While some historians argue that this movement expanded religious freedom, …
Alexander Von Humboldt And Adolf Bastian: Genealogical Ruptures Between Natural And Human Sciences In Nineteenth-Century Germany, Zachary James Michael Watts
Alexander Von Humboldt And Adolf Bastian: Genealogical Ruptures Between Natural And Human Sciences In Nineteenth-Century Germany, Zachary James Michael Watts
History Theses
This work seeks to understand one specific relationship between the European human sciences as they developed in the second half of the nineteenth century and Enlightenment natural sciences as they existed at the beginning of the nineteenth century. I argue that ethnologist Adolf Bastian (1826–1905) maintained two forms of interpreting Humboldtian science that existed after the death of famed scientific explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). First, Bastian upheld an explicit interpretation of Humboldtian conceptions of civilization and Bastian explicitly used the Humboldtian comparative method of study. Second and most importantly, the transition from Humboldtian methods to Bastian's ethnology and psychic …
Sit In, Stand Up And Sing Out!: Black Gospel Music And The Civil Rights Movement, Michael Castellini
Sit In, Stand Up And Sing Out!: Black Gospel Music And The Civil Rights Movement, Michael Castellini
History Theses
This thesis explores the relationship between black gospel music and the African American freedom struggle of the post-WWII era. More specifically, it addresses the paradoxical suggestion that black gospel artists themselves were typically escapist, apathetic, and politically uninvolved—like the black church and black masses in general—despite the “classical” Southern movement music being largely gospel-based. This thesis argues that gospel was in fact a critical component of the civil rights movement. In ways open and veiled, black gospel music always spoke to the issue of freedom. Topics include: grassroots gospel communities; African American sacred song and coded resistance; black church …
Liquid Liberalism: Environment, The State, And Society In Porfirian Mexico, Kate Stogsdill
Liquid Liberalism: Environment, The State, And Society In Porfirian Mexico, Kate Stogsdill
History Theses
In this thesis, I propose that Mexican water works during the Porfiriato influenced the development of modernity because of hydrology’s link between society and environment. These two canals in particular provide a window on the relationship between the state and environment that connects the two in the efforts of state formation. The Gran Canal and the Canal de la Viga both worked as tools for social and political construction for Mexicans to imagine modernity for themselves and for their country.
Aiding Africans: West German Perceptions Of Race And Modernity In The 1960s, Lauren W. Nass
Aiding Africans: West German Perceptions Of Race And Modernity In The 1960s, Lauren W. Nass
History Theses
During the 1960s, decolonization and the Cold War pushed many West Germans to concern themselves with aiding Africans. This aid came in the form of federally funded development aid or Entwicklungshilfe, student activism, and the continuation of missionary work. Utilizing print media, scholarly sources, as well as reports from missionaries and other aid workers, my thesis explores the discourses that surrounded aid work. These discourses reveal a number of ways West Germans conceived of race, modernity, and their role in the world. While acknowledging the multiplicity of views and contest over attitudes, I argue that in general aid to Africa …
Patriotism And Dissent: Coercive Voluntarism In Wartime Georgia, 1917?1919, Bill Warhop
Patriotism And Dissent: Coercive Voluntarism In Wartime Georgia, 1917?1919, Bill Warhop
History Theses
This thesis analyzes the culture of coercive voluntarism in Georgia during the First World War using studies of legislation and vigilance, the press, and the Georgia Council of Defense. Each of the themes studied demonstrates how organizations attempted to coerce support of the US war effort in Georgia. The study focuses on Georgia as a single state rather than simply as part of the South, as most other studies have done. The purpose is to challenge studies that have emphasized resistance only, which presents an incomplete picture of Georgia’s domestic scene during the war. In fact, many elements within Georgia—at …
"If This Great Nation May Be Saved?" The Discourse Of Civilization In Cherokee Indian Removal, Stephen Watson
"If This Great Nation May Be Saved?" The Discourse Of Civilization In Cherokee Indian Removal, Stephen Watson
History Theses
This thesis examined the rhetoric and discourse of the elite political actors in the Cherokee Indian Removal crisis. Historians such as Ronald Satz and Francis Paul Prucha view the impetus for this episode to be contradictory government policy and sincere desire to protect the Indians from a modernizing American society. By contrast Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green, and William McLoughlin find racism as the motivating factor in the removal of the Cherokee. In looking at letters, speeches, editorials, and other documents from people like Andrew Jackson, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Elias Boudinot, and John Ross, this project concluded that the language of …
Destroying The Mystique Of Paris: How The Destruction Of Les Halles Served As A Symbol For Gaullist Power And Modernization In 1960s And 1970s Paris, Scott A. Kasten
Destroying The Mystique Of Paris: How The Destruction Of Les Halles Served As A Symbol For Gaullist Power And Modernization In 1960s And 1970s Paris, Scott A. Kasten
History Theses
Les Halles, Paris’s historic marketplace, was once called “the belly of Paris” by Emile Zola. Les Halles was a Parisian institution. The destruction of the marketplace in 1971, especially the famed Baltard pavilions, set off a firestorm of debate and public dissent not seen on an urban issue in nearly a century. Within the debate over Les Halles existed a series of gripping juxtapositions or binaries- a battle between the Gaullists and the liberal intellectuals, capitalists and workers, modernity and tradition. These juxtapositions reveal France’s struggle to adapt to the new modernity that emerged in the postwar and post-colonial years. …
Liberty Of Mine Own Country: The Political Perspective Of Henry Clay, Joshua T. Walters
Liberty Of Mine Own Country: The Political Perspective Of Henry Clay, Joshua T. Walters
History Theses
Henry Clay’s effect on the second party system is undeniable. However, this thesis intends to do more than chronicle Clay’s life. By analyzing key points of Clay’s political career, one sees several key aspects of Clay’s political philosophy come to life. Unionism, the role of the Constitution, and compromise are fundamental to Clay’s political perspective. Other historians have argued that Clay was always motivated by “self-interest” and personal politics, but Clay’s politics never strayed far from national compromise and maintaining the Union.
A Reassessment Of Deindustrialization And The Case Of Atlantic Steel, Timothy T. Lawrence
A Reassessment Of Deindustrialization And The Case Of Atlantic Steel, Timothy T. Lawrence
History Theses
This thesis seeks to understand the causal factors of deindustrialization in the steel industry during the late twentieth century and uses the former Atlantic Steel Company mill in Atlanta, Georgia as a case study. Using company records and secondary sources from a variety of social science disciplines, I explore the roles of neoliberalism, government foreign and domestic policies, and the world economic crisis of 1973 to reassess contemporary understanding of the concept of deindustrialization.
Defending Renaissance Italy: The Innovative Culture Of Italian Military Engineers, Brett M. Carter
Defending Renaissance Italy: The Innovative Culture Of Italian Military Engineers, Brett M. Carter
History Theses
The cultural and social effect of the Renaissance Italian military engineer is profiled within this thesis. It encompasses their vocational careers concerning the fluctuations in individuality, print censorship, and uneasiness attached to patronage and marketability. Their work and reputation directly coincided with the demand for trace italienne from numerous Italian city-states and entities throughout the cinquecento. As knowledge spread throughout the Italian peninsula, the individualistic demand for military engineers diminished, integrating their discipline with other professions. As the demand for patronage intensified, fears of fraudulence and plagiarism existed among printers and fellow engineers. This apprehension directly contributed to a lack …
The Price Of Freedom: Greece's Role In The Cold War, Hristos X. Tzolis
The Price Of Freedom: Greece's Role In The Cold War, Hristos X. Tzolis
History Theses
Much of the available scholarship today underplays the role of Greece within the context of the Cold War between, the United States and the Soviet Union. The purpose of this study, we will place Greece as the test subject of a modern approach to war by Washington in assuming a neo-colonial master’s role to reconstruct Europe post World War II. The following thesis will challenge the preconceived notion that Greece and the United States entered into this diplomatic arrangement with only the intentions of containing communism. This research will concentrate on the role of political fear, through government legislation and …
Evolution Of A Word: Democracy And The Democratic-Republican Societies, 1793-1796, Jarrett M. Walker
Evolution Of A Word: Democracy And The Democratic-Republican Societies, 1793-1796, Jarrett M. Walker
History Theses
Even though most historians agree on democracy’s basic definition and that it emerged with the American Revolution in the United States, historians disagree on how it developed after the Revolution. Some argue that democracy thrived while others claim that it was tamed during the 1790s. Instead of siding with one side or the other, this thesis argues that democracy meant different things to different people and developed in multiple ways. People created their own definition and over time they helped evolve it and one group was the Democratic-Republican Societies that formed in 1793 and ended in 1796. Their definition started …
The Legacy Of Luther: National Identity And State-Building In Early Nineteenth-Century Germany, Ruth L. Dewhurst
The Legacy Of Luther: National Identity And State-Building In Early Nineteenth-Century Germany, Ruth L. Dewhurst
History Theses
Historians have posited a number of theories about nationalism. Using Anthony D. Smith's historic ethno-symbolic theory, this thesis examines the development of German national identity in the decades following the French Revolution up to the 1848 revolutions and the National Assembly that met in Frankfurt to write a constitution for the German Nation. Martin Luther was an important figure to Germans in the nineteenth century and a number of influential intellectuals drew on his contributions to define themselves as a distinctive people, even though Germans as yet, had no nation-state. The particular contributions of Luther examined in this thesis are …
Refashioning After The Split: Morocco And The Remaking Of French Christianity After The 1905 Law Of Separation, Whitney E. Abernathy
Refashioning After The Split: Morocco And The Remaking Of French Christianity After The 1905 Law Of Separation, Whitney E. Abernathy
History Theses
On December 9, 1905, newspapers announced the French Third Republic had passed the Law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. This law dissolved the complex relationship that had existed between the French state and the Catholic Church and ended the public role of religion. However, while religious conviction seemed to be on the wane within the French metropole, public discourse in the early twentieth century regarding the impending French seizure of Morocco consistently referred to the French populace as “Christians” while the Moroccans were collectively labeled as “Muslim savages.” This thesis argues that the French media, government, …
"With Vietnam We Are Bound As Brothers": Theorizing Socialism, Internationalism, And The Politics Of Public Agency Among Vietnamese Contract Workers In The German Democratic Republic, Jonathan M. Schmitt
"With Vietnam We Are Bound As Brothers": Theorizing Socialism, Internationalism, And The Politics Of Public Agency Among Vietnamese Contract Workers In The German Democratic Republic, Jonathan M. Schmitt
History Theses
This thesis considers the social, economic and ideological climate in the German Democratic Republic in the last decade of its existence (the 1980s) when excessive labor demands lead the country to import tens of thousands of “contract workers” from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Focusing primarily on theoretical contradictions in GDR socialism, and their impact on the day to day lives Vietnamese workers, I will argue that ideologically freighted pronouncements of “socialist fraternity” with Vietnam functioned to obscure the true, economic reasons for labor importation.