Romanian archaeology was first institutionalized as a part of the Romanian state and government at the foundation of the Romanian Academy in 1866. Its induction as an institution within the Romanian Academy came before many natural sciences, demonstrating the importance of archaeology in the creation of the Romanian nation. From the moment of insti...
Between the rise of fascism and the beginnings of the Cold War, mid-20th century Europe experienced an unprecedented period of ideological rule. Artists and intellectuals were called upon to actively endorse the political ideologies governing their respective regimes, with little room for dissent. In response, many looked back to previous eras in w...
This dissertation shows how businesses including shipping companies, labor recruitment agents, and landed elites—“agents of globalization”—decisively shaped global mobility in an era of nominally “free” and unregulated migration. From South Carolina and Argentina to Saskatchewan and Australia, businesses tried desperately to court immigrants, resor...
This dissertation re-examines three canonical works: Cervantes’s romance/adventure novel Persiles (1617), Góngora’s long, unclassifiable poem Soledades (1613), and Sor Juana’s long, philosophical poem Primero sueño (1692). This study builds on the baroque paradigm of excessive self-invention as satirized in Don Quixote’s imitation of outdated chiva...
The history of Europe in the twentieth century is often told as one of integration: the traumas of World War I and World War II taught Europeans that they needed to come together to maintain peace. Even though the continent was divided during the Cold War, these political divisions ultimately faded away and Europe united across its traditional East...
This dissertation investigates the dynamics of law and legal change in the twelfth-century Norman Kingdom of Sicily; specifically, how ambitious local experts dislodged traditional legal regimes, consolidated power in judicial institutions, and centralized control of documentary culture. The first part of the dissertation traces how changes in the ...
This dissertation challenges several orthodoxies prevailing around the historical development of the concept of representation from Roman antiquity into early modern political thought. My aim is not just to revise our understanding of the known intellectual pathways of the concept’s transmission, but to firmly demonstrate that the principal languag...
During the overlapping periods of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a number of political and cultural shifts occurred across Europe, the Mediterranean, and Western Asia. These changes led to the development of new kingdoms across the European subcontinent, and new forms of expressing power and authority through art and architecture. This p...
My dissertation recasts the early years of Spain’s imperial formation, which has been long framed from the perspective of monarchs, to focus on the lives of conquistadors who fought in multiple theaters of the nascent empire. At this time, Spain underwent a remarkable string of territorial acquisitions, conquering various possessions in the Atlanti...
AbstractAmerican Feeling: Political Passions and Affective Identity in the Revolutionary Era, 1754-1815byRussell L. WeberDoctor of Philosophy in HistoryUniversity of California, BerkeleyProfessor Mark A. Peterson, ChairThis dissertation explores the relationship between emotions and politics in the early-modern Atlantic world, specifically interrog...
