In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a
fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution …

Protest movements that reject political parties are often considered marginal or ineffective
due to their hostility toward conventional politics. However, we argue that partisan actors can …

The far right in South Africa underwent a period of rapid change and adaptation in the first
two decades after apartheid. By the time the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging …

This dissertation project examines the emergence of extra-institutional forms of political
contestation within highly repressive authoritarian regimes. Using Cuba as a case study, I …

This study analyzes the impact of eighteenth-century commercialization on the evolution of
the English and southern American landed classes with regard to three genteel leadership …

On 22 February 2019, an unprecedented popular protest broke out in Algeria against
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's fifth-term candidacy. For almost a year, the country had …

This thesis is the study of a 2,300-page diary spanning the period 1700 to 1716 in which an
English gentlewoman explicitly and self-consciously made the connection between …

Abstract Studies of the East India Company tend to focus on the company as an impersonal
corporate organization experiencing great expansion and success in the eighteenth century …

This study seeks to examine the religious, cultural and political ideas at the heart of
Jonathan Swift's thinking. The basis for this study has been the recent work of English and …

The letter had two complementary forms in its eighteenth-century heyday: the intimate
private letter and the" public letter" or letter-essay. Together these formed a dual generic …