Graduate Theses and Dissertations - History
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Damascus in the Time of Cholera: The Impact of Communicable Diseases on the Transformation of an Ottoman Provincial Capital 1840-1920
(Georgetown University, 2022)There are very few obvious signs of Damascus’s history with cholera even though the disease struck the city several times in modern history. After the first outbreak in 1848, cholera recurred in 1865, 1875, 1891, 1903, and ... -
Ecology, the Accumulation of Capital, and Dispossession in Late Ottoman Western Anatolia
(Georgetown University, 2022)This dissertation is an entangled history of capitalism, environment, and labor in Western Anatolia—the rural hinterland of the Ottoman Empire’s major commercial port city of Izmir—between the 1850s and 1910s. Focusing on ... -
Land, Informality, and Security: A Material History of West Africa’s Futa Jallon Massif (1650-2019)
(Georgetown University, 2022)This dissertation is a material history of the Futa Jallon massif: a 60,000 km2 assemblage of plateaus situated almost entirely within the present-day Republic of Guinea. Known today as “West Africa’s water tower,” the ... -
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Infectious Disease History in Twentieth Century Africa
(Georgetown University, 2022)This dissertation employs novel approaches in the field of historical epidemiology to reinterpret past disease events in twentieth century Africa. Employing methods from epidemiology, medical anthropology, and evolutionary ... -
Worlds in Conflict: Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Challenges, and the ‘Conquista del Desierto’ in the Making of Argentina, 1870-1900
(Georgetown University, 2022)From their first encounter in 1536, armed conflict between Indigenous groups and settlers of European and African descent in Argentina (who referred to themselves as cristianos, or Christians) was a constant menace to both. ...