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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 ...
The Suppression of Liberation Theology: A History of a Changing Peru, 1968-1988
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)
This thesis creates and captures a twenty year history of the suppression liberation theology in Latin America. This suppression was aimed at Gustavo Gutierrez, one of the founders of liberation theology, and was lead by ...