My dissertation centers on the meaning of dreams as interpreted by literati in the late Ming (1368-1644), viewed through the lens of the 1636 encyclopedia Forest of Dreams. This thirty-four-juan tome is the largest extant Chinese dream encyclopedia and includes…

This dissertation examines the administration of Islamic family law in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands Indies through the lens of Arab merchants in colonial courts from 1860 till 1942. During this period, Arab communities tended to seek justice…

This article examines the representation of musical culture in three Peruvian authors of the seventeenth century. Analysis of their written works highlights the presence and usage of musical knowledge through which these historical actors demonstrate a capacity to construct in writing an individual…

This dissertation sets a detailed, technical history of ideas of Dutch-born lens maker and natural philosopher Nicolas Hartsoeker (1656-1725). Hartsoeker's case exemplifies the kinds of intellectual journeys a university-educated man with technical skills undertook to navigate the chaos and uncertainty…

Las concepciones humanísticas de José Ortega y Gasset, que lo llevarían
a fundar, junto a Julián Marías, el Instituto de Humanidades de Madrid
en 1948, tuvieron significativa repercusión en las universidades
latinoamericanas. El prestigioso historiador español Américo Castro
no desconocía…

This dissertation maps the ethnographic and archaeological work of the Dutch architects Aldo van Eyck and Herman Haan between 1947 and 1967, including van Eyck's writings, editorial work, and encounter with the sub-Saharan Dogon people, and Haan's expeditions and ethnographic…

This dissertation examines the historical evolution of Korean print culture by studying the ways in which the reading public expanded its boundary beyond the confines of canonical texts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this dissertation, I analyze…

This dissertation chronicles the emergence of economic calculation as an analytical, argumentative, and moral tool in British politics in the half-century after the 1688 Revolution. During Britain's "financial revolution," novel questions about the nation's "Trade & Revenue" were contested in…

Este trabajo propone el análisis histórico de un grupo de autobiografías de enfermeras cuyas dramáticas experiencias en el ejercicio de su profesión durante la Guerra Civil Americana ayudaron a configurar la profesión de enfermería. Las autobiografías tienen un importante componente…

A lo largo de la primera década del presente siglo ha ocurrido en Venezuela un significativo proceso de orden político que ha contado con
importante sustentación histórica. La mirada a los últimos cuarenta años de la pasada centuria, pero también…