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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)
The Origins of Christian Democracy in Chile: The Path of the Moral Center
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)
Constructing God’s Community: Umayyad Religious Monumentation in Bilad al-Sham, 640-743 CE
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)
In the early 7th Century CE, the Umayyad dynasty formed the first Islamic empire, marking a crucial moment in the emergence of Islam. As in many empires of Late Antiquity, religious monumentation played a central role in ...
When Birds of a Feather Do Not Flock Together: The Failure of Democratic India and Democratic America to Ally During the Cold War
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-28)
The global geopolitical history of the late 20th century was defined by the Cold War between the United States and the USSR, which through alliances, involved many countries across the world. Large swaths of the world ...