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A Contact Threesome: Americans, Arabs, and Imperialists
(2015-04-08)
This paper explores how encounters with European empire shaped American missionary and travel writing about the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I break with the way that scholars in the humanities, ...
Pilgrim's (Scientific) Progress: Natural History, Vision, and Sacred Geography in Palestine
(2015-04-08)
In this thesis, I discuss the ways that three American Protestants incorporated scientific instruments and scientific language into accounts of their pilgrimages to Palestine. I argue that incorporating science into their ...