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"The Hatay belongs to us": Defining Community in the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 1915-1940
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)
In 1936, the Republic of Turkey and French-mandate Syria were at odds over the future of a province on the Turkish-Syrian border called the Sanjak of Alexandretta. This thesis explores the Turkish annexation of Alexandretta, ...
Using the Living as Proxies in the Politics of the Dead: U.S. Grave Exhumation in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1953
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)
“The Shaft is in the Stone”: The Emergence of Confederate Memory through Early Monumentation in South Carolina, 1866-1904
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)
A Precarious Freedom: the Foundation and Justifications of Acts of Attainder for Enslaved and Free Persons of Color in the 18th Century British Caribbean
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)
In October of 1736, in the small colony of Antigua, a group of enslaved persons plotted to overthrow the white planter class, abolish slavery, and declare independence from British rule. Four free Black men were accused ...
Landscapes of Modern India
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-05)
Students, Clergy, and Nonviolent Direct-Action: The Forces Behind the 1960 Nashville Sit-Ins
(2021-05-03)
From February to May 1960, a racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of students and clergy members staged nonviolent sit-ins in downtown Nashville with the goal of desegregating public spaces in the city. In these ...
Unmasking History: Superhero Tropes and Historical Reimagination in the Watchmen Franchise
(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)
Constituencies of Political Authoritarianism: Struggle, Survival, and Separatism in the Donets Coal Basin (1989-2014)
(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-03)
Since the start of the War in the Donbas in 2014, the miners of the Donetsk Coal Basin have suffered immensely due to economic and political destabilization, mine flooding, mine closures, intermittent shelling, mounting ...
Imagining an Alternative Modernity: An Intellectual Biography of Rammanohar Lohia
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-08-22)
Rammanohar Lohia was a failed politician. By the time he was finally to the Lok Sabha -- India’s lower house of parliament -- in 1963, it was clear that his Socialist Party would never be a major force in Indian politics. ...
The Origins of Christian Democracy in Chile: The Path of the Moral Center
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)