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Description:: This dissertation investigates how US Americans in the nineteenth century began to apply the category of religious fanaticism to individuals and communities deemed dangerous. Contributing to scholarship on secularism, racial governance, and American religious history, this dissertation argues that fanaticism is not a neutral category of description. It tracks how...
Keyword:: religion and violence, secularism, Christianity, colonialism, american religious history, and racial governance
Subject:: American history, Religion, and Religious history
Creator:: Wheatley, Jeffrey Thomas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_758378 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15204

Description:: The renewed scholarly interest in the connections between taxation, state building efforts, and long-term economic development has revitalized the study of historical tax systems. How did today’s states initially acquire ‘fiscal capacity’, and why was this process more successful in some places than in others? Since African tax systems are...
Keyword:: colonialism, Africa, forced labor, and taxation
Subject:: History
Creator:: Marlous van Waijenburg
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/11/2019
Date Modified:: 01/30/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This project examines how early modern writers mobilize race as a vehicle for investigating far-reaching epistemological questions about the limits and parameters of human knowledge. While dominant trends in early modern race studies have focused on racial knowledges or particular identifications or formulations of human difference, I break new ground...
Keyword:: epistemology, history of science, race, literature and science, and colonialism
Subject:: English
Creator:: Meghan Daly Costa
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/09/2019
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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