Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - History by Creator "Tucker, Judith E."
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Medical Frontiers: Health, Empire, and Society in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula, 1862-1959
(Georgetown University, 2019)Modern institutions of medicine and sanitation, global pandemics, and new conceptions of health and the body converged in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. ... -
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 ...
