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Chaos in the Academy- A History of and Challenges to Liberal Education
(Georgetown University, 2018)
For more than twenty-five hundred years of recorded history the creation and communication of knowledge has increased in quantity and complexity. The method of communicating that knowledge has evolved in difficulty along ...
Sradicando il passato: Un’analisi del romanzo vita di Melania Mazzucco
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This thesis examines the book, Vita by Melania Mazzucco, published in 2003, which follows the story of two Italian immigrants in the United States in the early years of the 20th century. The following analysis views Vita ...
The Seven Rivers: Empire and Economy in the Russo-Qing Central Asian Frontier, 1860s-1910s
(Georgetown University, 2018)
I use the comparison of both Russian and Qing imperial rule in their shared Central Asian frontier to investigate the nature of both empires and the concept of empire in general. The Yili- Balkhash region, the geographical ...
Between Revivalism and Reconstructionism: Islam, Reform, and Secularism in the Works of Taha Abderrahmane and Mohammed Arkoun
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The examination of the works of some of the major reformist thinkers in the Maghrib region since the late nineteenth century reveals a tension between two attitudes, revivalism and reconstructionism. The study contends ...
Learning from Experience: Local Perception and Transboundary Institution Building on the Lower Great Lakes, 1900-1972
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This dissertation argues that between 1900 and the mid-1940s, Canada and the United States developed a suite of water institutions in order to manage the fisheries, water quantity, and water quality of the lower Great Lakes ...
Dalla Route 66 ai Treni del Sole: le Migrazioni Interne in The Grapes Of Wrath e Rocco e I suoi fratelli
(Georgetown University, 2018)
As cultural depictions of internal migrations in their respective countries, The Grapes of Wrath and Rocco e i suoi fratelli illustrate a parallel trajectory despite two opposing and divergent historical contexts, i.e. the ...
NewSpace: An Era of Entrepreneurial Branding
(Georgetown University, 2018)
With the rise in space entrepreneurial companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, the modern day space sector paradigm appears to be much different that of a NASA-led past. In the mid-90s with the rise of frustration over ...
The Four-note Chord of Liberty: Why the Founders Believed that Character Mattered
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Words remain in usage while their meanings change without our noticing. This is a particularly vexing problem when a word is intended to capture the central human value in United States history and continues to be the ...
The Tigris-Euphrates Basin Under Early Modern Ottoman Rule, c. 1534-1830
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The early sixteenth century marked the beginning of a rare chapter in the long history of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. A series of military campaigns between the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf brought the entirety ...
The Cold War Underground: An Environmental History of Uranium Mining in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union, 1945-1991
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This dissertation uses transnational comparative analysis and environmental history to show how uranium influenced the Cold War nuclear arms race and shaped human bodies and landscapes in the United States, Canada, and the ...