Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - History by Title
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"All matters and things shall center there" : a study of elite political power in South Carolina, 1763-1776
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American Dream Deferred: Black Federal Workers in Washington, D.C., 1941-1981
(Georgetown University, 2013)This study explores the history of black workers in Washington, D.C.'s federal sector from World War II (WWII) to the early 1980s. Many blacks viewed government employment as a welcome alternative to the limited job ... -
“An Odious Aristocracy:” Energy, Politics, and the Roots of Industrial Capitalism in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania
(Georgetown University, 2019)This dissertation examines how the anthracite coal and petroleum industries in mid-nineteenth century Pennsylvania reshaped political, financial, social, and ecological relationships and established the norms and conditions ... -
“Are We Not Children Too?”: Race, Media, and the Formative History of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States
(Georgetown University, 2022)Children migrating without their parents journeyed to American shores long before the establishment of the United States—unaccompanied children traveled on the Mayflower, as well as on an untold number of slave ships. And ... -
Autochthonous and Practical Liberals: Vestnik Evropy and Modernization in Late Imperial Russia
(Georgetown University, 2007-08-27)This study investigates a strain of liberal thought based on materials published in the thick journal Vestnik Evropy, which formed a unique synapse in the matrix of Russian social thought. The period under examination, ... -
Baku: Violence, Identity, and Oil, 1905-1927
(Georgetown University, 2017)Baku: Violence, Identity, and Oil, 1905-1927 is an exploration of the economic, social, and political metamorphosis of Baku, Azerbaijan, from 1905 to 1927, from a growing boomtown to a city divided by ethnic and political ... -
Beacons of Liberty: Free-Soil Havens and the American Anti-Slavery Movement, 1813-1863
(Georgetown University, 2017)Beginning in the late eighteenth century, diverse anti-slavery efforts transformed the geography of slavery and freedom in the Atlantic world. Haiti, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Upper Canada, Mexico, the newly independent South ... -
Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia, 1890-1980
(Georgetown University, 2021)The first Indian migrants to what was then known as Southern Rhodesia arrived at the turn of the nineteenth century, in the shadows of the white settler Pioneer Column that came from the south. As the British South Africa ... -
Between Monarchy and Dictatorship: Radical Nationalism and Social Mobilization of the Pan-German League, 1914-1939
(Georgetown University, 2012)The Pan-German League (1891-1939) has been at the center of research on German nationalism as a vanguard of the radical Right during the era between Imperial Germany and the Third Reich. It mobilized members of the ... -
Between Peaceful Coexistence and Ongoing Conflict: Religious Tolerance and the Protestant Minority in Seventeenth-Century France
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation is a study of religious tolerance and the Huguenot minority in earlymodern France. From the Wars of Religion (1562-1629) to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, early modern French people ... -
Beyond the Trail of Broken Treaties: The International Native American Rights Movement, 1975-1980
(Georgetown University, 2020)This study examines the transformative shift, beginning in the early 1970s, of organized Native American and Indigenous groups within the United States and Canada to internationalize Indigenous activism. It highlights ... -
Black in the USSR: African Students, Soviet Empire, and the Politics of Global Education during the Cold War
(Georgetown University, 2021)After the death of Stalin in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev breathed new life into the socialist internationalist project. This renewed internationalism put the Global South at its center; the Soviet Union would once again become ... -
Breadwinner Soldiers: Gender, Welfare, and Sovereignty in the Ottoman First World War
(Georgetown University, 2019)During the First World War, approximately three million Ottoman men served in the military, amounting to about 12% of the total population of the Empire in 1914. Many conscripts were in their prime breadwinning years with ... -
Byzantine "Political Hesychasm" in the Literature of the Second South Slavic Influence
(Georgetown University, 2015)Monasticism began as an eremetic movement focused on individual self-perfection for Christians who longed to distinguish themselves from the newly Christianized lay society of late antiquity. Various trends gradually ... -
Catholic Slaveholders, Enslaved People, and the Making of Georgetown University, 1792-1862
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation examines how Catholic slave owners and enslaved laborers shaped the founding and operations of Georgetown University from 1789 to 1862. Part of this story is already well known. In 1838, Maryland Jesuits ... -
Children and Slave Emancipation in French Algeria and Tunisia (1846-1892)
(Georgetown University, 2017)In the second half of the nineteenth century, both the slave trade and slavery were illegal in Algeria, Tunisia, and the rest of France’s colonial empire. Yet, from the fringes of the Sahara to the shores of the Mediterranean ... -
Citizens and Comrades: Entangled Revolutions and the Production of Knowledge Between Russia and France, 1905-1936
(Georgetown University, 2021)What did Russian people know about 1789 in 1905? What did French people know about 1917 in 1936? Historians of France and Russia have long argued that the French-Russian revolutionary connection is central to both French ... -
Citizenship in Later Medieval France, c. 1370 - c. 1480
(Georgetown University, 2013)Did citizenship exist in later medieval France? The current historical narrative on the history of citizenship would answer no. According to this narrative, many towns north of the Alps saw civic practices, but they were ... -
Closer Apart: Indigenous and Peasant Communities and the State in Capitalist Peru, 1700-1990
(Georgetown University, 2014)"Closer Apart" is an in-depth study of how statehood and economic development have been experienced by rural villagers of Peru throughout centuries of political formation. By tracing the origins of contemporary land issues ...
