Browsing College of Humanities and Social Sciences by Author "Zagarri, Rosemarie"

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"The Greek Fire": The Greek War for Independence and the Emergence of American Reform Movements, 1780-1860

Santelli, Maureen Elizabeth Connors (2014)

This dissertation places early Americans in the midst of a global conflict that pit the Greeks against the Ottoman Turks. Although historians have focused a great deal of attention on American support for the French ...
In Dependence: Women's Protection and Subordination as Power in Early America, 1750-1820

Beatty, Jacqueline Marie (George Mason University, 2016)

This dissertation explores the ways in which early American women in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston exploited their legal, social, and economic positions of dependence and turned these constraints into vehicles of ...
Institutionalizing the Information Revolution: Debates over Knowledge Institutions in the Early American Republic

Oberle, George D. (2016)

The United States was created in the midst of an information revolution. The leaders of the newly created American republic believed the citizens needed to be educated and informed in order to be effective participants in ...
“That Universal Panic Which Now Prevails”: An Analytical Narrative of the Panic of 1791

Miller, Scott C. (2013-08-16)

This thesis establishes a baseline narrative for the Panic of 1791, the first financial crisis experienced by the United States as a constituted union. During July, August, and September of 1791, newly formed American ...

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