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Description:: Making the Coast Pacific is an environmental history of violence against places, plants, and people. Mexico's Pacific Coast region was a key site for oilseed agriculture and industrialization, which resulted in environmental violence and injustice. Since the region with Mexico's largest population of afro-descendants, Costa Chica, was also Mexico's leading...
Keyword:: Agrarian reform, Agribusiness history, Oilseed crops, Environmental Violence, Afro-Mexico, and Agrochemicals
Subject:: Latin American history, Science history, and Environmental studies
Creator:: Porter, Jayson Maurice
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16288 and etdadmin_upload_933029

Description:: This dissertation examines the role of the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, created in 1817, in shaping the practice of colonial agriculture in the Netherlands East Indies. It explores how Buitenzorg and its surrounding highland environs were an ideal place for botanical investigations and agricultural experimentation. The initial task of the...
Keyword:: Imperial History, Environmental History, Botanical Garden, History of Science, Colonial Botany, and Indonesian History
Subject:: History, Asian history, and Science history
Creator:: Adam, Luthfi
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_744900 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15149

Description:: This dissertation aims to redefine the concept of pain as it appears in literary studies and demonstrate how the new definition garners insight into the interwovenness of literature and physiology in the mid-eighteenth century. It challenges the claim that pain is opposed to language by adopting a new materialist concept...
Keyword:: Nature and Culture, Language and the Body, Nerves as Medium, Derrida, Sensibility and Irritability, and New Materialism
Subject:: German literature, Science history, and Aesthetics
Creator:: Berjan, Sandra
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2020
Date Modified:: 04/28/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14951 and etdadmin_upload_708357

Description:: This dissertation, titled “The Rocket’s Red Glare: Global Power and the Rise of American State Technology, 1940-1960,” makes three distinct but interlocking historical interventions. First, it argues that the rise of technology as a central ideological component of global hegemony represents a historical contingency, rather than a reflexive characteristic of...
Keyword:: Anglo-American, Global power, Foreign relations, Hegemony, Statebuilding, and Technology
Subject:: History, Science history, and International relations
Creator:: Falcone, Michael Alan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14657 and etdadmin_upload_662729

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