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Planting Palestine: The Political Economy of Olive Culture in the 20th-Century Galilee and West Bank
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The olive tree has become a central symbol of Palestinian nationalism, signifying sumud or steadfastness. Its importance to contemporary Palestinian society in the West Bank, both culturally and economically, is unparalleled. ...
Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, 1890-1980
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, 1890-1980 examines the gendered transformation in the territory that became Libya from the late Ottoman period until after ...
Sweetening the Pot: A History of Tea and Sugar in Morocco, 1850-1960
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This dissertation studies the history of tea and sugar consumption in Morocco in the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, spanning the late Sharifian Empire, the French and Spanish ...
Aliens in Uniforms and Contested Nationalisms: The Role of The Iraq Levies in Shaping Aspects of Iraqi Nationalism under The British Mandate of Iraq (1921-1933)
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The Iraq Levies were formed by the British authorities to secure imperial order and maintain stability in the British Mandate of Iraq (1921-1932). The social composition of the Iraq Levies which consisted mainly of Assyrian ...
Mandarins, Paladins, and Pahlavis: The International Energy System, the United States, and the Dual Integration of Oil in Iran, 1925-1964
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This dissertation examines the integration of Iranian oil into a global oil system and the simultaneous use of oil revenues to fund internal economic development under the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979). It unites the local ...
Empire through Language: al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī and the Power of Oratory in Umayyad Iraq
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This dissertation examines the speeches and the literary-historical figure of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī (d. 714), the governor of Iraq under the Umayyad dynasty (661-750), to explore the role that public speech played ...
The Ba‘th Party in Baghdad: State-Society Relations through Wars, Sanctions, and Authoritarian Rule, 1950-2003
(Georgetown University, 2018)
How did 50 years of oil wealth, non-democratic rule, wars, and sanctions shape state-society relations in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad? This dissertation charts key trends in state-society dynamics during important ...
Morocco in the Early Atlantic World, 1415-1603
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Over the last several decades, a growing number of historians have conceptualized the Atlantic world as an explanatory analytical framework, useful for studying processes of interaction and exchange. Stretching temporally ...