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When Edmund Burke declared in 1790 that the French Revolution was made up of an atheistic "cabal" of philosophers, he initiated what would remain a stereotype of the revolutionaries for not only the duration of the Revolution, but for...
The "Cliveden Set" was a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals who were politically influential in Britain during the interwar period. The group's members included notable politicians, journalist, and aristocrats such as...
This dissertation examines representations of Protestantism during a crucial period of legal persecution initiated by Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) and concluded during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era....
Southern Intrusions: Native Americans and Sovereignty in the Early Republic" examines the meaning and contests over power, authority, and state building in the American South. It contends that Native Americans turned to and then...
This thesis examines the Jesuit mission to New France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The various sources of support and opposition are described using the lens of the massive set of primary documents preserved in The Jesuit...
This dissertation centers on an extensive project to promote cotton cultivation in France and Italy which took place during the rule of Napoleon I. While this episode has been largely forgotten today, I show that the Napoleonic...
Ideology, Practicality, and Fiscal Necessity: The Creation of the Archives Nationales and the Triage of Feudal Titles by the Agence Temporaire Des Titres, 1789-1801
The Archives nationales has a history all its own—a history tied firmly to revolutionary ideology, pragmatism, and fiscal necessity. On 29 July 1789, a mere two weeks after the storming of the Bastille, legislators of the National...
This dissertation presents and analyzes British Naval Operations in the Baltic during the Napoleonic War. In addition, Political and Economic Relations between Britain and the nations bordering the Baltic will be addressed, in particular...
From 1720 until 1722, the French region of Provence suffered an epidemic of plague, caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, that arrived from the Levant at the port of Marseille in May 1720. During this time, it may have claimed as many...
This study examines two former adversarial scientific and technological aerospace constructs created, for the most part, separately during the Cold War and their subsequent meeting and collaboration after the Soviet Union collapse. They...
This thesis studies the causal factors of US slavery prior to the Civil War. My main data set is the 1860 census from the National Historical GIS (nhgis.org), which is aggregated to the county level. Historians have traditionally broken...
This project examines the creation and early administration of Malta as a British colony, between the years 1798 and 1824. For centuries, Britain’s imperial ambitions and Malta’s role in the Mediterranean operated on largely parallel...
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