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"The Marine Corps' Long March": Modernizing the Nation's Expeditionary Forces in the Aftermath of Vietnam, 1970-1991
(Georgetown University, 2015)
The United States Marine Corps was an institution in crisis in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Six years of war had taken a toll on personnel and equipment. Racial violence was a common occurrence and desertion rates ...
Il cinema e le ideologie politiche alla Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia.
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This thesis explores the relationship between political ideologies and cinema in Italy in relation to the Venice Film Festival, from the fascist period to the 1968 contestation. In particular, newspaper and magazine reviews ...
DEMOCRATIZED REPUBLIC: HOW HAITI'S FAILED EMIGRATION PROGRAM DESTABILIZED ITS DEMOCRACY
(Georgetown University, 2012)
The Republic of Haiti has been in a perpetual democratic transition since its independence on January 1, 1804. Its revolution was the final step in its emancipation from France, which prompted its nation building process ...
All Business: Confronting the Ethical Dilemmas of Financial Evolution in Gilded Age Fiction
(Georgetown University, 2012)
William Dean Howells and Theodore Dreiser observe the deteriorating ethics of modern American capitalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Financier, these authors ...
Illness as Discourse Medical Welfare of Egyptian Labor in an Age of Liberalism and Progress (1919-1939)
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This thesis is about discourses and practices formulated around health issues of workers in Egypt during the interwar period (1919-1939). It locates working-class illness within three major social transformations: the rise ...
Politicians and Petitions: Passing the "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom" in Virginia
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The defeat of Patrick Henry's general assessment bill in the Virginia legislature, brought about by the mobilization of dissenters in a petition campaign influenced by James Madison, led to the passage of Thomas Jefferson's ...
The Manila Chinese: Community, Trade, and Empire, c.1570-c.1770
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study focuses on the Chinese community of Manila from 1570 to 1770, revealing that the community was not an insular, ethnic enclave unified in its efforts and aspirations but one made up of different groups with varying ...
History and Politics of Nomadism in Modern Palestine (1882-1948)
(Georgetown University, 2016)
My research examines contending visions on nomadism in modern Palestine, with special focus on the British Mandate period. By nomadism I refer to a form of territorialist discourse, one which views tribal formations as the ...
Oil and Revolution in Cuba: Development, Nationalism, and the U.S. Energy Empire, 1902-1961
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Energy history is essential to understand modern Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations. This dissertation demonstrates that Cuba's lack of hydrocarbon energy sources shaped the ambitions and limits of the Cuban nationalist project ...
THE THREE-FIFTHS CLAUSE: A NECESSARY AMERICAN COMPROMISE OR EVIDENCE OF AMERICA’S ORIGINAL SIN?
(Georgetown University, 2017)
For over 230 years historians and scholars have argued that the Three-fifths Clause of the United States Constitution, which counted slaves as three-fifths a citizen when calculating states’ population for apportionment ...