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OTHERNESS AND BELONGING IN “DEMOCRATIC EMPIRES”: THE SYRIAN DIASPORA AND TRANSATLANTIC DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY, 1890s-1930s
(2016-08-15)
This dissertation examines the arguments that Syrians in diaspora at the turn of the twentieth century used in constructing their group identity. It traces the transnational and transimperial discourses that centered on ...
“LANDS OF THE FUTURE:” GERMAN-SPEAKING IDENTITY, NETWORKS, AND TERRITORIALITY IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC, 1820-1930
The movement of German-speakers to the South Atlantic did not begin with Nazis seeking refuge in Argentina in the aftermath of World War II, nor did it start with the organization of the German protectorate of South-West ...
Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740
(2020-06-03)
In the last two years of the seventeenth century, approximately 3,000 people, mostly Scottish merchants, soldiers, sailors and their families, migrated to a small coastal region in central America for the purpose of ...
The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans and the Finnish Civil War
(2020-03-19)
Historical research on Finnish migration and Finnish-Americans has, until recently, been carried out by members of the Finnish-American community and as such has written out the role of Finnish-Americans in the radical ...
“Tie the Flags Together”: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930
(2018-12-07)
“Tie the Flags Together”:
Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930
Cory Wells
Throughout the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of Irish Protestants who migrated to the United States ...
MAKING A NATION ABROAD: THE ROLE OF MIGRANT COLONIES IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ALBANIA
(2017-08-15)
This dissertation examines the crucial role of Albanian emigrants in the development of the Albanian National Movement, and the establishment of the modern state of Albania. It takes a transnational approach, by surveying ...