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Systems of Value: Knowledge, Imperialism, and Scientific Authority in the Context of 18th Century Sweden
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The focus of this work is 18th century Sweden, circling around the lives and works of people – some more and some lesser known, some even forgotten – who dedicated their careers to the acquisition, dissemination, and application of diverse forms of knowledge. The sources and case studies are thus...
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T’aih k’ìighe’ tth’aih zhit dìidìch’ùh (By Strength, We Are Still Here): Indigenous Northerners Confronting Hierarchies of Power at Day and Residential Schools in Nanhkak Thak (the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories), 1959 to 1982
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Through archival sources, interviews, and my own experience as the daughter and grandaughter of Gwichyà Gwich’in women who were institutionalized in Inuuvik and Aklavik, I explore the uniquely northern experience of Indigenous children who were consigned to Inuuvik’s Indian Residential Schools –...
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Fall 2012
Previous work on ethnicity in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) has cast the An Shi Rebellion (An Lushan Rebellion) as a kind of “breaking point” between the cosmopolitan, foreigner-friendly first half of the Tang Dynasty and the conservative, xenophobic second half. This paper analyzes the Rebellion...
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The Baltic Amber Trade, c. 1500-1800: The Effects and Ramifications of a Global Counterflow Commodity
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My thesis adds a new dimension to the history of the Baltic region during the early modern period (c. 1500-1800) by focusing on a previously unexamined global commodity from the Baltic: amber. Historically, the Baltic’s commercial activity during this period has been characterized as one...
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Spring 2010
This study examines the rise and fall of the modern Belarusian national movement during the quarter century between 1906 , the year when the first Belarusian paper appeared, until its demise around 1931, as a result of political repression in the Soviet...