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 ...

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 ...

This dissertation is a study of the political of local self-government in Imperial Russia over the course of the period 1825-1917. In particular, I concentrate on the zemstvos, elected bodies established in 1864 at the ...

Between 1450 and 1520 there were frequent uprisings in England and Castile, many directed at royal councilors, a few aimed at monarchs themselves, but nearly all claiming to seek some sort of reform. They occurred during ...

In ancient imperial Rome, wealthy upper class citizens followed the emperor's lead of establishing philanthropic alimenta programs. The alimenta programs provided children with financial stipends for food, clothing, and ...

From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever scourged the major port cities of the United States, devastating inhabitants in a series of terrifying epidemics. In this dissertation, I examine the efforts of a coterie of natural ...

Nana Asma'u, the daughter of a prominent Nigerian shaykh held a leading role in providing religious instruction to the women of the Sokoto Caliphate in the 1800s. Asma'u is an example of many Sufi women whose role and ...

This thesis employs feminist international relations theory to examine the United States' reliance on foreign women to fulfill its international agenda. Specifically, this thesis parallels the development of military ...