Columbia University Dissertations: Dissertations

History: Dissertations

2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990

2007 DISSERTATIONS

Fishzon, Anna (2007) The operatic subject : fandom, authenticity, and the commercialization of culture in late imperial Russia

Foray, Jennifer L. (2007) The kingdom shall rise again : Dutch resistance, collaboration, and imperial planning in the German-occupied Netherlands

Gisolfi, Monica Richmond (2007) From cotton farmers to poultry growers : the rise of industrial agriculture in upcountry Georgia, 1914-1960

Harding, Emily S. (2007) Political thought in the British Caribbean, 1750-1785

Hillyer, Reiko Margarita (2007) Designing Dixie : landscape, tourism, and memory in the New South, 1870-1917

Klein-Pejšová, Rebekah (2007) Among the nationalities : Jewish refugees, Jewish nationality, and Czechoslovak statebuilding

McGuire, Tom (2007) Andrew Johnson and the Northern Revolution

Musher, Sharon Ann (2007) A New Deal for art

Schwartz, Daniel B. (2007) The Spinoza image in Jewish culture, 1656-1956

Voldoire, Aline Cécile (2007) The transnational politics of French and American Jews, 1860-1920

2006 DISSERTATIONS

Aranoff, Deena (2006) In pursuit of the holy tongue : Jewish conceptions of Hebrew in the sixteenth century

Banks, Nancy Ann (2006) " The last Bastion of Discrimination" : The New York City building trades and the struggle over affirmative action, 1961-1976

Clark, Shannan (2006) "White-collar workers organize" : class-consciousness and the transformation of the culture industries in the United States, 1925-1955

Cohen, Nicole Leah (2006) Children of empire : growing up Japanese in colonial Korea, 1876-1946

Grudzen, Gerald Joseph (2006) Monte Cassino and medical philosophy : "body and soul" dilemmas

Haselby, Sam (2006) The origins of American religious nationalism, 1787-1832

Lehr, Quincy (2006) Terror, reform, and repression : Oklahoma politics in the early 1920s

Loeffler, James (2006) " The most musical nation" : Jews, culture and nationalism in the late Russian Empire

Martin, Benjamin (2006) A New Order for European culture : the German-Italian Axis and the reordering of international cultural exchange, 1936-1943

McCarthy, Timothy Patrick (2006) A culture of dissent : American abolitionism and the ordeal of equality

McMillian, John (2006) Smoking typewriters : the New Left's print culture, 1962-1969

Miller, Ian (2006) The nature of the beast : the Ueno zoological gardens and imperial modernity in Japan, 1882-1945

Mullaney, Thomas (2006) Coming to Terms with the Nation : ethnic classification and scientific statecraft in mondern China, 1928-1954

Pak, Jung (2006) ʻNot by power nor by mightʻ : American missionaries and the spiritual wars in Korea, 1885-1953

Rosenfeld, FRances (2006) The Anglo-German encounter in occupied Hamburg, 1945-1950

Tambor, Molly (2006) The lost wave : constitutional rights feminism in Italy, 1948-1963

Trask, Jeffrey (2006) "American Things" : the cultural value of decorative arts in the modern museum, 1905-1931

Voegler, Max (2006) Religion, liberalism and the social question in the Habsburg hinterland : the Catholic Church in Upper Austria, 1850-1914

2005 DISSERTATIONS

Backes, Matthew (2005) The father and the middle class : paternal authority, filial independence, and the transformation of American culture, 1800-1850

Cuthell, David (2005) The Muhacirin Komisyonu : an agent in the transformantion of Ottoman Anatolia 1860-1866

Downs, Jim (2005) Diagnosing Reconstruction : sickness, dependency, and the medical division of the Freedman's Bureau, 1861-1870

Fronc, Jennifer (2005) "I Led Him On" : undercover investigation and the politics of social reform in New York City, 1900-1919

Glasson, Travis (2005) Missionaries, slavery, and race : the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in the eighteen-century British Atlantis world

Goldberg, Jessica (2005) Geographies of trade and traders in the eleventh-century Mediterranean : a study based on documents from the Cairo Geniza

Harrison, Marjorie (2005) Machine politics suburban style : J. Russel Sprague and the Nassau County (N.Y.) Republican party at Midcentury

Hearst, Kathryn (2005) Phoebe Apperson Hearst : the making of an upper-class woman, 1842-1919

Hernández-Múzquiz, Rowena (2005) Economy and society in medieval and early modern Seville (1391-1506) :ba study of the abasteçimiento [provisioning] of an Iberian urban center

Kushner, Nina (2005) Unkept women : elite prostitution in eighteen-century Paris, 1747-1771

Lifset, Robert (2005) Storm King Mountain & the emergence of modern American environmentalism 1962-1980

Makimura, Yasuhiro (2005) The silk road at Yokohama : a history of the economic relationships between Yokohama, the Kantō region, and the world through the Japanese silk industry in the nineteenth century

McCormick, Ted (2005) Sir William Petty, political arithmetic, and the transformation of the Irish, 1652-1687

Moulton, Alexander (2005) The insider as outsider : the networks of Maximilian Harden in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany/

Pennington, Lee Kennedy (2005) Wartorn Japan : disabled veterans and society 1931-1952

Phillips-Fein, Kim (2005) Top-down revolution : businessmen, intellectuals and politicians against the New Deal

Rouighi, Ramzi (2005) Mediterranean crossings, North African bearings a taste of Andalus in Bejaia, 1250-1400

Ruffini, Giovanni (2005) Social networks in Byzantine Egypt

Spieler, Miranda (2005) Empire and Underworld : Guiana in the French legal imagination, c. 1789-c. 1870

Venghiattis, Claire (2005) Mobilizing for Nation and Empire : a history of the German Women's Colonial Organization, 1896-1936

Weir, Todd (2005) The fourth confession : atheism, monism and politics in the Freigeistig movement in Berlin, 1859-1924

2004 DISSERTATIONS

Abel, Jessamyn (2004) Warring internationalisms : multilateral thinking in Japan, 1933-1964

Ablovatski, Eliza (2004) "Cleansing the Red Nest" : counterrevolution and white terror in Munich and Budapest, 1919

DeVun, Leah (2004) John of Rupescissa and the states of nature : science, apocalypse, and society in the late Middle Ages

Eaton, William (2004) The contest over American democracy : British travelers on the American frontier and the American response, 1815-1850

Ebert, Christopher (2004) The trade in Brazilian sugar : Brazil, Portugal and Northwestern Europe, 1550-1630

Ebner, Michael (2004) The Fascist archipelago : political, internment, exile, and everyday life in Mussolini's Italy, 1926-1943

Everett-Lane, Debra (2004) International scientific congresses, 1878-1913 : community and conflict in the pursuit of knowledge/

Fernández, Johanna (2004) Radicals in the late 1960s : a history of the Young Lords Party in New York City, 1969-1974

Gage, Beverly (2004) The Wall Street explosion : capitalism, terrorism, and the 1920 bombing of New York

Gembicki, Mary (2004) Mastering circumstances : power, privilege, and self-preservation in the Russian provincial administration of the Polish-Lithuanian nobility, 1795-1812

Gregg, Sara (2004) From farms to forest : federal conservation and resettlement programs in the Blue Ridge and Green Mountains

Kamaly, Hossein (2004) Four moments in the early Islamic history of Isfahan

Kornhauser, Anne (2004) Saving liberalism : political imagination in the American century

Kovner, Sarah (2004) Prostitution in postwar Japan : sex workers, servicemen, and social activists, 1945-1956

Liu, Jinyu (2004) Occupation, social organization, and public service in the collegia centonariorum

Matsumoto. Mio (2004) The poverty of race : Abram L. Harris, E. Franklin Frazier, Ralph Bunche, and twentieth-century American intellectual history

Meir, Natan (2004) The Jews in Kiev, 1859-1914 : community and charity in an imperial Russian city

Miller, Michael (2004) Rabbis and revolution : a study in nineteenth-century Moravian Jewry

Mims, Clarence (2004) Representing the working society : discourses on "work" in Wilhelmine Germany between ideology and Alltag, ca. 1888 to 1916

Mirra, Carl (2004) U.S. foreign policy since 1945 and the prospects for peace education

Petty, Adrienne (2004) Standing their ground : small farm owners in North Carolina's tobacco belt, 1920-1982

Polland, Anne (2004) "The sacredness of the family" : New York's immigrant Jews and their religion, 1890-1930

Rodriguez, Jaime (2004) A divided city : social and urban patterns in Monterrey, Mexico, 1876-1911

Rustow, Marina (2004) Rabbanite-Karaite relations in fatimid Egypt and Syria : a study based on documents from the Cairo Geniza

Sagarin, Stephen (2004) Promise and compromise : a history of Waldorf schools in the United States, 1928-1998

Short, John (2004) Colonialism and society : class and region in the popularization of overseas empire in Germany, 1890-1914

Stern, Philip (2004) "One Body Corporate and Politick" : the growth of the English East India Company-State in the later seventeenth century

Tompkins, David (2004) Composing the party line : music and politics in Poland and East Germany, 1948-1957

Traflet, Janice (2004) Spinning the NYSE : power and public relations at the big board

Urban-Mead, Wendy (2004) Religion, women, and gender in the Brethren in Christ Church, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, 1898-1978

White, Sarah (2004) Spain's glorious revolution : social protest and the politics of liberty in Mʹalaga, 1868-1874

2003 DISSERTATIONS

Ali, Omar (2003) Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1898

Coble, Alana (2003) The transformation of domestic service in twentieth century New York

Delbourgo, James (2003) Electricity, experiment and enlightenment in eigtheenth-century North America

Ejikeme, Anene (2003) Mission and motherhood : towards a history of Catholic women and education in Onitsha, Nigeria, 1885-1964

Ekbladh, David (2003) A workshop for the world : modernization as a tool in U.S. foreign relations in Asia, 1914-1973

Frey, David (2003) National cinema, world stage : a history of Hungary's sond film industry, 1929-44

Friedman, Joan (2003) Solomon B. Freehof, the "Reform Responsa", and the shaping of American Reform Judaism

Gewirtz, Isaac (2003) The prefaces of Badius Ascensius : the humanist printer as arbiter of French humanism and the medieval tradition in France

Hall, Morgan (2003) Alfonso XIII and the failure of the liberal monarchy in Spain, 1902-1923

Kaplan, Zvi (2003) French Jewry and the problem of Church and State, 1848-1905

Lerner, Marc (2003) Privileged communities or equal individuals : the political culture of Freiheit and Libertʹe in the Swiss public arena, 1798-1847

Ludington, Charles (2003) Politics and the taste for wine in England and Scotland

Mark, Ethan (2003) Appealing to Asia : nation, culture and the problem of imperial modernity in Japanese-occupied Java, 1942-1945

Markarian, Vania (2003) Uruguayan exiles and the Latin American human rights networks, 1967-1984

Neitzel, Laura (2003) Living modern : danchi housing and postwar Japan

Peretz, Camille (2003) The development of the Parisian tourist industry as described in the travel narratives of American travelers in the French capital between 1780 and 1850

Raffety, Matthew (2003) The Republic afloat : violence, labor, manhood, and the law at sea

Rustomji, Nerina (2003) The Garden and the Fire : materials of Heaven and Hell in Medieval Islamic culture

Sneh, Itai (2003) The eclectic badge of honor : how the Carter Administration integrated human rights into American foreign policy and to what extent

Starr, David (2003) Catholic Israel : Solomon Schechter, a study of unity and fragmentation in modern Jewish history

Trumbore, Anna (2003) Relations between bishops and religious houses in Aquitaine, ca 877 - ca. 1040

Ugalde, Alejandro (2003) The presence of Mexican art in New York between the World Wars : cultural exchange and art diplomacy

White, Ashli (2003) "A Flood of Impure Lava" : Saint Dominguan refugees in the United States, 1791-1820

Zelener, Yan (2003) Smallpox and the disintegration of the Roman economy after 165 AD

2002 DISSERTATIONS

Aggarwala, Rohit (2002) Seat of Empire : New York, Philadelphia, and the emergence of an American metropolis, 1776-1837

Baader, Maria (2002) Inventing bourgeois Judaism : Jewish culture, gender, and religion in Germany, 1800-1870

Bakhle, Janaki (2002) Two men and music : nationalism, colonialism and the making of Hindu modernity in Western India, 1843-1926

Bass, Warren (2002) Support any friend : Kennedy, Nasser, and the origins of the U.S.-Israel alliance

Borsch, Stuart J. (2002) The Black Death in Egypt and England : a comparative economic analysis

Byard, Eliza (2002) Inverts, perverts, and national peril : federal responses to homosexuality, 1890-1956

Capozzola, Christopher (2002) Uncle Sam Wants You : political obligations in World War I America

Cheney, Paul Burton (2002) The history and science of commerce in the century of Enlightenment : France, 1713- 1789

Clark, Mark (2002) A study of Peter Comestor's methods in the Historia Genesis

Fergus, Devin (2002) The ordeal of liberalism and black nationalism in an American Southern state, 165-1980

Garrett, David (2002) "Descendants of the natural lords who were ": the Indian nobility of Cusco and the Collao under the Bourbons

Genter, Robert (2002) Late modernism and the cultural politics of Cold War America, 1946-1964

Guibovich Pérez, Pedro (2002) The Inquisition and book censorship in the Peruvian Viceroyalty, 1570-1754

Hansen, Mark (2002) Eduardo Prado, liberal monarchist and catholic nationalist : a whig rebel in Brazil's old Republic

Hartmann, Wolfram (2002) Sexual encounters and their implications on an open and closing frontier : Central Namibia from the 1840s to 1905

Hashikawa, Kenryu (2002) Rural entrepreneurship in New Jersey during the early Republic

Hilzinger, Deborah (2002) "Not one of these little ones should perish" : orphanages in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, 1850-1950

Hollander, David (2002) Roman money in the late Republic

Kolsky, Elizabeth (2002) "The Body Evidencing the Crime": gender, law and medicine in colonial India

Kramer, Susan (2002) Secret sins and the privacy of "interior homo" in early twelfth century theological writings

Laponce, Jean (2002) In the shadow of de Sade : French medical responses to a case of serial sexual homicide during the Belle Époque

Lebow, Katherine (2002) Nowa Huta, 1949-1957 : Stalinism and the transformation of everyday life in Poland's "first socialist city"

Lindseth, Peter (2002) The contradictions of supranationalism : European integration and the constitutional settlement of administrative governance, 1920s-1980s

Mandel, Joseph (2002) French notables in the age of Revolution and industry : the Roederer Family, 1700-1835

Mir, Farina (2002) The social space of language : Punjabi popular narrative in colonial India, c. 1850-1900

Morgan, Michelle (2002) Imperialists of 1898 : naval conceptions of American expasion

Neary, Rebecca (2002) "Flowers and Metal" : the Soviet "Wife-Activists' Movement" and Stalin-era culture and society, 1934-1941

Nielsen, Christian (2002) One state, one nation, one king : the dictatorship of King Aleksandar and his Yugoslav project, 1929-1935

Pinto, Karen (2002) Ways of seeing.3 : scenarios of the world in the medieval Islamic cartographic imagination

Pixton, Carol (2002) Widowhood in seventeenth-century Burgundy : the limits of autonomy

Raab, Nigel (2002) A conservative public sphere : Imperial Russian fire departments, 1850-1914

Reed, Touré (2002) 'Helping Negreos to Help Themselves' : middle class reform and the politics of racial order, 1910-1950

Schrag, Zachary (2002) The Washington Metro as vision and vehicle, 1955-2001

Seaman, John (2002) James Bryce a study in Victorian public life

Stockley, Charles (2002) From "Pay Pause" to wage-price freeze : the rice and fall of consensual incomes policy in Britain, 1961-1966

Suisman, David (2002) The sound of money : music, machines, and markets, 1890-1925.

Tejani, Shabnum (2002) A pre-history of Indian secularism : categories of nationalism and communalism in emerging definition of India, Bombay Presidency c. 1893-1932

Várhelyi, Zsuzsanna (2002) The religion of the senatorial elite in the Roman Empire, A.D. 69-235

Vermeylen, Filip (2002) Art and economics : the Antwerp art market of the sixteenth century

Watt, Lori (2002) When empire comes home : repatriation in postwar Japan, 1945-1958

2001 DISSERTATIONS

Cavanaugh, Cassandra (2001) Backwardness and biology : medicine and power in Russian and Soviet Central Asia, 1868-1934

Friedman, Tami (2001) Communities in competition : capital migration and plant relocation in the U.S. Carpet Industry, 1929-1975

Garb, Margaret (2001) Building the American Dream : a history of home ownership and housing reform, Chicago, 1871-1919

Greenberg, David (2001) Nixon's shadow : democracy and authenticity in postwar American political culture

Guttman, Gail (2001) Division and diversity : community transition in postwar America, 1945-1970 ; New Rochelle, New York, a case study

Harding, Nicholas (2001) Dynastic union in British and Hanoverian ideology, 1701-1803

Horgan, Andrew (2001) The dilemmas of a Republican identity : Socialists and Catholics in Weimar Germany

Jones, Martha (2001) The "woman question" in African-American public culture, 1830-1900

Lupkin, Joshua (2001) Constructing "The Poor Man's Automobile" : public space and the response to the taxicab in New York and Chicago

Nedostup, Rebecca (2001) Religion, superstition and governing society in Nationalist China

Papp, Robert (2001) The development of a domestic stock market in St. Petersburg in late Imperial Russia

Rosenthal, Joshua (2001) La Salina de Chita 1821-1900 : fiscal policy and local power in provincial Colombia .

Seraphim, Franziska (2001) Negotiating the post-war : politics and memory in Japan, 1945-1995

Spencer, Robyn (2001) Repression breeds resistance : the rise and the fall of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA, 1966-1982

Stoner, John (2001) Anti-communism, anti-colonialism, and African labor : the AFL-CIO in Africa, 1955-1975

Stroud, Ellen (2001) The return of the forest : urbanization and reforestation in the northeastern United States

Yoshida, Takashi (2001) The Nanjing Massacre in history and memory : Japan, China, and the United States, 1937-1999

2000 DISSERTATIONS

Armstrong, Erica (2000) Negro wenches, washer women, and literate ladies : the transforming identities of African American women in Philadelphia, 1780-1854

Beilin, Ian (2000) Celebrating the Nation's pasts : the 1913 commemorations and national identity in late Imperial Germany

Beyani, Choolwe (2000) Labour capital and the state in colonial Zambia : the development of commercial agriculture, 1900-1949

Carey, Hampton (2000) New voices in the old dominion : black politics in the Virginia Southside Region and the City of Richmond, 1867-1902

Coleman, Steven (2000) To Promote creativity, community, and democracy : the progressive college of the 1920s and 1930s

Dyer, Abigail (2000) Heresy and dishonor : sexual crimes before the courts of early modern Spain

Glassheim, Eagle (2000) Crafting a post-imperial identity : nobles and nationality politics in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1948

Gray, Natasha Adriene (2000) The legal history of witchcraft in colonial Ghana : Akyem Abuakwa, 1913-1943

Green, Michael (2000) Freedom, union, and power : the ideologicl transformation of the Republican Party during the Civil War

Hubby, John (2000) Lordship and rural society in medieval Bavaria ; the estate of the Abbey of Tegernsee, c. 979 - c. 1450

Jaffary, Nora E. (2000) Deviant orthodoxy : a social and cultural history of ilusos and alumbrados in colonial Mexico/

Karp, Jonathan (2000) The politics of Jewish commerce : European economic thought and Jewish emancipation, 1638-1848

Katzoff, Beth (2000) For the sake of the nation for the sake of women : the pragmatism of Japanese feminisms in the Asia-Pacific War, 1931-1945

Landsman, Mark (2000) Dictatorship and demand : East Germany between productivism and consumerism, 1948-1961

Maslakovic, Anna (2000) Common and public : a genealogy of urban space in late medieval and early modern Lyon

Mutschler, Ben (2000) The Province of affliction : illness in New England, 1690-1820

O'Bryan, Scott (2000) Growth solutions ; economic knowledge and problems of capitalism in post-war Japan, 1945-1960

Okamoto, Koichi (2000) Imaginary settings : Sino-Japanese-U.S. relations during the occupation years

Phang, Sara (2000) The marriage of Roman soldiers, 13 B.C. - A.D.235 law and society on the Roman frontier

Rachamimov, Alon (2000) Marginalized subjects : Autro-Hungarian POWs in Russia, 1914-1918

Rai, Mridu (2000) The question of religion in Kashmir : sovereignty, legitimacy and rights, c. 1846-1947

Rodríguez, Julia (2000) Endconding the criminal : criminology and the science of 'Social Defense' in modernizing Argentina, 1880-1921 ?

Roemer, Nils (2000) The historicizing of Judaism in 19th-Century Germany : scholarly discipline and popular historical culture

Rothman, Adam (2000) The expansion of slavery in the deep South, 1790-1820

Ruiz-Esquide, Andrea (2000) Migration, colonization and land policy in the former Mapuche frontier : Malleco, 1850-1900

Russell, Thaddeus (2000) Out of the jungle : Jimmy Hoffa and the remaking of the American working class

Stone, Gary (2000) The Senate and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968

Teter, Magdalena (2000) Jews in the legislation and teaching of the Catholic Church in Poland , 1648-1772

Tritter, Thorin Richard (2000) Paper profits in public service : money making in the New York newspaper industry, 1830-1930

Unowsky, Daniel (2000) The pomp and politics of patriotism : imperial celebrations in Habsburg Austria, 1848-1916

Vapnek, Lara (2000) The politics of women's work in the United States, 1865-1909

Watkins, Beverly (2000) Fantasy, decay, abandonment, defeat and disease : community disintegration in Central Harlem, 1960 - 1990

West, Michael (2000) The education of Booker T. Washington : the Negro problem, democracy, and the idea of race relations

Woods, Thomas (2000) Ever ancient, ever new : Catholic intellectuals and the Progressive Era

Yi, Haining (2000) From "Yellow Peril" to "Model Minority" : the educational history of Chinese Americans, 1850-1990

Young, Patrick (2000) The consumer as national subject : bourgeois tourism in the French Third Republic, 1880-1914

Zitser, Ernest (2000) The Transfigured Kingdom : sacred parody and charismatic authority at the court of Peter the Great, 1682-1725

1999 DISSERTATIONS

Alcorn, John (1999) Social strife in Sicily, 11892-94 : the rise and fall of peasant leagues on the latifondo before the great emmingration

Carriker, Andrew (1999) The library of Eusebius of Caesarea

Dallek, Matthew (1999) A time for choosing : Ronald Reagan, Pat Brown, and the political contest that shaped a decade

Edison, Paul (1999) Latinizing America : the French scientific study of Mexico, 1830-1930

Farrell, Kevin (1999) The military and the monarchy : the case and career of the Duke of Cambridge in an age of reform

Hickel, Karl (1999) Entitling citizen : World War I, progressivism, and the origins of the American welfare state, 1917-1928

Iacullo, Maria (1999) Art history in the emergence of the modern humanities : How art museums and academe established visuality in American learning, 1865-1937

Kaplan, Nira (1999) A changing culture of merit : French competitive examinations and the politics of selection, 1750-1820

Kaye, Anthony E. (1999) The personality of power : the ideology of slaves in the Natchez District and the Delta of Mississippi, 1830-1865

Kiron, Arthur (1999) Golden Ages, Promised Lands : the Victorian rabbinic humanism of Sabato Morais

Kobrak, Christopher (1999) Between nationalism and internationalism ; Schering AG and the culture of German capitalism, 1851-1945

Leon, Miguel (1999) Los caballeros de Leon de Huanuco : surgimiento y ciada de una elite Hispano-Peruana, 1540-1640

Litvak, Olga (1999) The literary response to conscription : individuality and authority in the Russian-Jewish Enlightenment

McLennan, Rebecca M. (1999) Citizens and criminals : the rise of the American carceral state, 1890-1935

Meisel, Joseph (1999) Public speech and the culture of public life in the age of Gladstone

Moskowitz, Sanford (1999) Science, engineering, and the American technical climate : the extent and limits of technological momentum in the development of the U.S. vapor-phase catalytic reactor, 1916-1950

Nadasen, Premilla (1999) The welfare rights movement in the United States, 1960-1975

Nemes, Robert (1999) Between reform and revolution : associations, culture and politics in Budapest, 1800-1849

Papen, Patricia von (1999) "Scholarly" antisemitism during the Third Reich, the Reichsinstitut's research on the "Jewish Question", 1935-1945

Park, Eunjin (1999) Black and white American Methodist missionaries in Liberia, 1820-1875

Peligal, Rona (1999) Spatial planning and social fluidity : the shifting boundaries of ethnicity, gender, and class in Arusha, Tanzania, 1920-1967

Roseman, Mindy (1999) Birthing the Republic : midwives, medicine, and morality in France, 1890-1920

Schneewind, Sarah (1999) Community schools and improper shrines : local institutions and the Chinese state in the Ming period, 1368-1644

Steinwedel, Charles (1999) Invisible threads of Empire : state, religion, and ethnicity in Tsarist Bashkiria, 1773-1917

Taylor, Durahn, A. B. (1999) Black Gotham : voters, leaders, and the political game in Harlem, 1928-1950

Thal, Sarah (1999) Rearranging the landscape of the Gods : a history of Kompira pilgrimage in the Meiji period

1998 DISSERTATIONS

Balin, Carole B. (1998) Jewish women writers in Tsarist Russia, 1869-1917

Bernstein, Frances (1998) "What everyone should know about sex" : gender, sexual enlightenment, and the politics of health in Revolutionary Russia, 1918-1931

Cannato, Vincent J. (1998) John Lindsay's New York and the crisis of liberalism

Christofferson, Michael Scott (1998) The Anti-totalitarian moment in French intellectual politics, 1975-1984

Cross, Timothy P. (1998) Religion and the social order in Liège, 1557-1650

Day, Andrew Elam (1998) Building socialism : the politics of the Soviet cityscape in the Stalin era

Flamm, Michael William (1998) "Law and order" : street crime, civil disorder, and the crisis of liberalism

Galvin, Michael Tuteur (1998) The poor tables of Bruges, 1270-1477

Gerwin, David Milton (1998) The end of coalition : the failure of community organizing in Newark in the 1960s

Gutfreund, Owen D. (1998) 20th century sprawl : accommodating the automobile and the decentralization of the United States

Hellbeck, Jochen (1998) Laboratories of the Soviet self : diaries from the Stalin era

Hovey, Elizabeth (1998) Stamping out smut : the enforcement of obscenity laws, 1872-1915

King, Jeremy (1998) Loyalty and polity, nation and state : a town in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1948

Lawson, Melinda (1998) Patriot fires : loyalty and national identity in the Civil War North

Mabry, James (1998) The U.S. Portland cement industry from domestic supremacy to foreign domination

Money, Mary (1998) The meaning of metals in Aymara and Quechua according to the dictionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth century Andes

Morgan, Francesca (1998) "Home and Country" : women, Nation, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1890-1939

Napoli, Philip (1998) Empire of the Middle : radio and the emergence of an electronic society

Ngai, Mae (1998) Illegal aliens and alien citizens : United States immigration policy and racial formation, 1924-1945

Oltman, Adele (1998) Sacred mission, worldly amibion : a social history of black Baptists in Savannah, Georgia, 1918-1939

Paces, Cynthia (1998) Religious images and national symbols in the creation of Czech identity, 1890-1938

Pinnow, Kenneth (1998) Making suicide Soviet : medicine, moral statistics, and the politics of social science in Bolshevik Russia, 1920-1930

Pollack, Eunice (1998) Haunted households : angst, anger, and eros in Amerian working-class and lower-middle class families, 1930-1970

Rousseau, Julie (1998) Enduring labors : the "New Midwife" and the modern culture of childbearing in early twenieth century Japan

Silvestri, Michael (1998) "The dirty work of Empire" : policing, political violence and public order in colonial Bengal

Thurtell, Craig (1998) The fusion insurgency in North Carolina : origins to ascendancy, 1876-1896

Uppal, Jyotsana (1998) Decay, diet, and desire : the making of community in colonial Punjab

Vinson, Ben (1998) Bearing Arms for His Majesty : the free-colored militia in colonial Mexico

Walker, Marilyn (1998) Islamization and muwallads in early Islamic Spain

West, Stephen (1998) From yeoman to redneck in upstate South Carolina

Zakim, Michael (1998) Ready-Made Democracy : dressing the republic for commercial success, 1760-1860

1997 DISSERTATIONS

Alatas, Sharifah Munirah (1997) Cultrual symbolism and legitimization in the contex of change : earlay Malay State formtion

Bates, Beth Tompkins (1997) The unfinished task of emancipation : protest politics comeof age in Black Chicago, 1925-1943

Brown, Gregory S. (1997) A field of honor : the cultural politics of playwriting in eighteenth century France

Clemens, Neal Raymond (1997) The establishment of the cult of Mary Magdalen in Provence, 1279-1543

Corney, Frederick Charles (1997) Writing October : history, memory, identity and the construction of the Bolshevik revolution, 1917-1927

Frazier, Alison Knowles (1997) Italian humanists as authors of vitae sanctorum, 1417-1521

García Muñíz, Humberto (1997) The South Porto Rico Sugar Company : the history of a U.S. multinational corporation in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, 1900-1921

Greenfield, Jennifer (1997) Construing the social economy : the reception of free-market liberalism in France, 1840-1890

Gregory, Andrew (1997) Village society in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

Lee, Stephen (1997) "The unofficial mind : attitudes of British businessmen in East Asia towards Japan, 1858-1942"

Maghen, William Avi (1997) al-taharah Shatir al-iman : an inquiry into the historical evolution of the Islamic system of ritual purity

McMillan, Daniel Alexander (1997) Germany incarnate : politics, gender, and sociability in the gymnastics movement, 1811-1871

Miller, Shawn William (1997) Brazil's colonial timber : conservation, monopoly and the accumulation of colonial wealth, 1652-1822

Nash, Alice N. (1997) The abiding frontier : family, gender and religion in Wabanaki history, 1600-1763

Partner, Simon Christopher (1997) Manufacturing desire : the Japanese electrical goods industry in the 1950s

Pitman, Paul (1997) France's European choices : the political economy of European integration

Ruoff, Kenneth James (1997) The symbol monarchy in Japan's postwar democracy, 1945-95

Sappol, Michael (1997) The cultural politics of anatomy in 19th - century America : death, dissection, and embodied social identity

Tueller, James Blaine (1997) Good and faithful Christians

Veeser, Cyrus Richard (1997) Remapping the Caribbean : private investment and United States intervention in the Dominican Repuclic, 1890-1908

Zanasi, Margherita (1997) Nationalism, autarky, and economic planning in 1930s China

Zapata-Velasco, Gaston A. (1997) Society and local power : the community of Villa El Salvador, Lima-Peru, 1971-1992, heterogeneity and social conflict

1996 DISSERTATIONS

Brandt, Lisbeth (1996) The folk-craft movement in early Sh⁻owa Japan, 1925-1945

Brenner, Aaron (1996) Rank-and-file rebellion, 1966-1975

Chia, Lucille (1996) Printing for profit : the commerical printers of Jianyang, Fujian (Song-Ming)

Gronewold, Sue Ellen (1996) Encountering hope : the Door of Hope Mission in Shanghai and Taipei 1900-1976

Kint, An M. (1996) The community of commerce : social relations in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

Lerner, Paul Frederick (1996) Hysterical men : war, neurosis and German mental medicine, 1914-1921

Lovett, Margot L. (1996) Elders, migrants and wives : labor migration and the renegotiation of intergenerational, patronage and gender relations in highland Buha, western Tanzania

Lupovitch, Howard (1996) The Jews of Miskolc, 1780-1848 : the expansion and development of traditional society in the age of royal absolution and liberal reform

Sinkoff, Nancy (1996) Tradition and transition : Mendel Lefin of Satanów and the beginnings of the Jewish Enlightenment in Eastern Europe, 1749-1826

Sklansky, Jeffrey P. (1996) Socializing the psyche : the fall of political economy and the rise of social psychology in the United States, 1830-1930

VanKoski, Susan Christina (1996) The Indian ex-soldier from the eve of the First World War to independence and partition : a study of provisions for ex-soldiers and ex-soldiers' role in Indian national life

Williams, Patrick George (1996) Redeemer democrats and the roots of modern Texas, 1872-1884

Winroth, Anders (1996) The making of Gratian's Decretum

1995 DISSERTATIONS

Dowling, Melissa Barden (1995) The development of clementia during the Roman period

Henry, Sarah M. (1995) Progressivism and democracy : electroral reform in the United States/

Higbee, Mark David (1995) W.E.B. Du Bois and the problems of the twentieth century : race, history , and literature in Du Bois's political thought, 1903-1940

Holquist, Peter (1995) A Russian Vendee : the practice of revolutionary politics in the Don countryside, 1917-1921

Johnson, Mark Stephen (1995) Russian educators, the Stalinist party-state and the politics of Soviet education, 1929-1939.

Kadosh, Sandra Berliant (1995) Ideology vs. reality : youth Aliyah and the rescue of Jewish children during the holocaust era, 1933-45

Knight, Nathaniel (1995) Constructing the science of nationality : ethnography in mid-nineteenth century Russia

Manchester, Laurie (1995) Secular ascetics : the mentality of Orthodox clergymen's sons in late imperial Russia

O'Donnell, Edward Thomas (1995) Henry George and the 'New political forces' : ethnic nationalism, labor radicalism, and politics in gilded age New York City

Pourshariati, Parvaneh (1995) Iranian tradion in Tūs and the Arab presence in Khurāsān

Salzmann, Ariel C. (1995) Measures of empire : tax farmers and the Ottoman ancien régime, 1695-1807 Ariel C. Salzmann.

Thompson, Elizabeth F. (1995) Engendering the nation : statebuilding, imperialism and women in Syria and Lebanon, 1920-1945

Zhang, Xiaobo (1995) Merchant associational activism in early twentieth-century China : the Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce, 1904-1928

1994 DISSERTATIONS

El-Hibri, Tayeb (1994) The regin of the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun (811-833) : the quest for power and the crisis of legitimacy

Fulton, Rachel (1994) The Virgin Mary and the Song of Songs in the high Middle Ages

Harris, Ron (1994) Industrialization without free incorporation : the legal framework of business organization in England, 1720-1844

Kotsonis, Yanni (1994) Agricultural cooperatives and the agrarian question in Russia, 1861-1914

Mandal, Sumit Kumar (1994) Finding their place : a history of Arabs in Java under Dutch rule, 1800-1924

Plaa, Andrew Thomas (1994) Mercantilism and the laboring poor, 1660 to 1750 : the ideological origins of the Industrial Revolution

Robbins, Karen Evelyn (1994) James McHenry : his American experience

Sanchez, Gonzalo J. (1994) The development of art and the Universal Republic : the Paris Commune's Federation des Artistes and French Republicanism, 1871-1889

Sanua, Marianne Rachel (1994) "Going Greek" : a social history of Jewish college fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945

Smith, Timothy B. (1994) The politics of public assistance in Lyon, France, 1815-1920

Sweeting, George Vincent (1994) Building the arsenal of democracy : the government's role in expansion of industrial capacity, 1940 to 1945

Trenam, Tracey Lynn (1994) Without a free Poland, a free Russia cannot be! : Polish liberals in the Russian Empire, 1904-1907 Tracey Lynn Trenam.

Von Eschen, Penny M. (1994) African Americans and anti-colonialism, 1337-1957 : the rise and fall of the politics of the African diaspora

1993 DISSERTATIONS

Brown, Joshua Emmett (1993) Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper : the pictorial press and the representations of America, 1855-1889

Brownell, Will (1993) "The Vietnam lobby" : the Americans who lobbied for a free and independent South Vietnam in the 1940s and 1950s

Brynner, Rock (1993) "Fire beneath our feet" : Shays' Rebellion and its constitutional impact

Caruso, Joseph Samuel (1993) Politics in colonial Kenya, 1929-1963 : a history of Kilifi District

Cvornyek, Robert L. (1993) Convict labor in the Alabama coal mines, 1874-1928

Geidel, Peter (1993) Alva E. Belmont : a forgotten feminist

Hacohen, Malachi Haim (1993) The making of the open society : Karl Popper, philosophy and politics in interwar Vienna

Miller, Burton Richard (1993) Peasant unrest during the first Russian revolution : Kursk Province, 1905-1906

Paine, S. C. M. (1993) A history of the Sino-Soviet border, 1858-1924

Potofsky, Allan Samuel (1993) The builders of modern Paris : the organization of labor from Turgot to Napoleon

Ross, Kristie R. (1993) "Women are needed here" : northern Protestant women as nurses during the Civil War 1861-1865

Xu, Xiaoqun (1993) State and society in Republican China : the rise of Shanghai professional associations, 1912-1937

1992 DISSERTATIONS

Curran, Mary Ellen (1992) Blood on the land : violent crime in rural Ireland, 1835-44

Koshiro, Yukiko (1992) Trans-Pacific racism : the U.S. occupation of Japan

McCauley, Bernadette (1992) "Who shall take care of our sick" : Roman Catholic sisterhoods and their hospitals, New York City, 1850-1930

Micgiel, John S. (1992) Coercion and the establishment of Communist rule in Poland, 1944- 1947

Osher, David Martin (1992) Soldier citizens for a disciplined nation : Union conscription and the construction of the modern American army

Potter, Lawrence G. (1992) The Kart dynasty of Herat : religion and politics in medieval Iran

Roberts, Cynthia A. (1992) Prelude to catastrophe : Soviet security policy between the world wars

Soffer, Jonathan Milton (1992) General Matthew Bunker Ridgway : postwar warrior 1946-1986

Sugrue, Michael (1992) South Carolina College : the education of an antebellum elite

1991 DISSERTATIONS

Oppenheim, Jean-Marc Ran (1991) Twilight of a colonial ethos : the Alexandria Sporting Club, 1890-1956

1990 DISSERTATIONS

Elliott, John Paul (1990) Protestantization in the northern Netherlands : a case study : the classis of Dordrecht, 1572-1640

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