History

The Development of a Field: The Philosophy of History and the Linguistic Turn

Samuel Ehrlich Backer — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:39:54 PDT

Love Becomes Possible: The Transformation of Gay Male Sexuality and Identity in the AIDS Crisis

Yannick LeJacq — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:38:56 PDT

Displacing the House of Being: The Politics of Parody in the Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard, 1960-1968

Dominick DeJoy — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:34:38 PDT

Migrapolis: Migration, Globalization, and Development in a Mexican Community

Robert Braucher Wohl — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:29:01 PDT

This thesis investigates the economic impact of mass migration on sending communities in Mexico through a case study of a municipality in the state of Morelos. Scholars have debated whether emigration promotes higher rates of investment, greater productivity, and development, or dependency, disinvestment from local economies, and economic stagnation. I argue that migration leads to a process of dependent development. I find that migrants and their households are not more likely to start businesses, as more optimistic analysts have predicted, since entrepreneurship requires certain resources (namely social and human capital) to which many migrants do not have access. Further, a number of historical factors, perhaps most importantly the class profile of pioneer migrants from this community, have discouraged investment by migrants in agriculture. Consequently, I concur with more pessimistic theorists that the vast bulk of migradollars(a catchall term for remittances and other income tha

I Belong to Every Country: John James Audubon & the Multivalence of National Identity

Solomon Kremen Adler — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:23:37 PDT

From the Gallery to the Streets: Dissenting Art and the Vietnam War

Rhiannon Clewell Corby — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:17:26 PDT

Sacred Relics in England, 1420-1605

Della Marie Keyser — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:17:13 PDT

Our Man in Zanzibar: Richard Waters, American Consul (1837-1845)

Wesley John Gilbert — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:15:02 PDT

Attitudes Toward Blacks and Immigrants at Wesleyan University, 1831-1920

Jeffrey H. Liss — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:27:08 PST

Every Kidd Has His Day: A Story of How Pirates Forced the English to Reevaluate Their Foreign Policy in the Indian Ocean (1690-1700)

Benjamin Heymann Brewer — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:36:09 PDT

Yours for the New Social Order: Student Radicals at Wesleyan University, 1929-1941

Nicholas John Davenport — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:59 PDT

French and German Film as a Theater for Working Through the Horrors of the Second World War

Emily Alexandra Rasenick — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:40 PDT

In the decades following WWII, both France and Germany sacrificed an understanding of their recent past in order to quickly recover. However, this reconstructed Europe was built on a foundation of silence, myth, and unclaimed responsibility; issues that would return to haunt the people. Raised in silence about the national past, a second generation came of age and began to demand some kind of understanding. In France and Germany, several filmmakers took up this cause, exploring issues of memory of the war, depersonalized and displaced guilt, and the incomplete national identities that developed.

BeatleBoomers: The Beatles in their Generation

Daniel Nathan Charness — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:15 PDT

Where German Hearts are Molded: Historical Memory and State Legitimation in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1989

Heather Lee Stanton — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:14 PDT

Despite the vast research on German memory after WWII, little is known about that of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The overall image that emerges from the literature is that of a monolithic, unchanging historical narrative. In reality the narratives disseminated by the Socialist Unity Party (SED) clearly evolved in response to external and domestic conditions. This thesis will demonstrate by analyzing the changing form and content of commemorative rituals, museum exhibits, official historical propaganda, and monuments that the narrative presented by the SED evolved over the period 1945-1989 in three distinct phases. Until these changes are understood, the reasons behind the creation of these narratives, their ineffectiveness, and what they reveal about the relationship between the SED and the East German citizenry will remain a puzzle. It appears that the GDRs historical narrative was modified in order to create at least the illusion of popular support for the regime.

Missionaries and the Textualization of Fijian Tradition

Arielle Manning Berrick — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:46 PDT

"I Dance; Therefore, I Am": Dance in a Developing American Culture

Daniel Jordan Bloom — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:34 PDT

Ethical Historiography: The Berlin-Carr Debate and the Revolutionary Realism of Alexander Herzen

Alexandra Nicole Holachek — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:16 PDT

"The Ardent Voyage": The Struggle of the French Communist Opposition

Katherine Sara Boyce-Jacino — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:00 PDT

Fluid Figurations: Images of the Divine in the Testimonies of Gertrude of Helfta, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila

Clare Nevin Trissel — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:33:43 PDT

Bricolage Nationalism: An Intellectual History of the Front de Libération du Québec

Nathan Elliot Marvin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:33:30 PDT