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The dissertation explores the intellectual history of the interconnection of European and African ideas about race and space in 19th-century European imperialism. I examine German colonial geographies of East Africa, meaning not only cartography, but the new discipline of human geography, which studies the relationship between people and their environment. Germans and East Africans together produced a hybrid geography that combined precolonial conceptions of race and space and race from both Europe and Africa, and race explicitly entered German governance for the first time. By analyzing changes in how both Germans and East Africans imagined geographical relationships, I argue, we can better understand the ways in which they developed new conceptions of themselves and the world at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The project traces the history of German racial thinking to a specific, earlier colonial context than other scholars have argued. It also brings a spatial dimension to studies of the colonial state in Africa in order to understand the ways in which spaces have become imbued with racial and ethnic meaning over the last century and a half. / History

<p> Maroon communities are often portrayed as renegade groups of Africans living within or on the fringes of some of the more popular slave societies such as Jamaica, Saint-Domingue (Haiti), Suriname, or Brazil, whose purpose or goals in their existence was never to strive towards universal emancipation of the African lot, and whose resistance and radicalism, if occurring during the Age of Revolution (i.e. Haiti), is often attributed to European influences during that era. This socio-cultural and political history about a lesser known group of maroons in Dominica challenges the preconceived notions of African maroonage and resistance, and is original in four ways: One, this dissertation demonstrates that the maroons of Dominica who lived in the interior of the island worked with the enslaved population on plantations on several occasions to overthrow the British colonial government in an attempt to assist their African brethren in freedom; Secondly, this work highlights the African origins of the spiritual and political philosophies, particularly the lesser credited Igbo, who comprised of a significant portion of Africans in Dominica, are what guided their anti-slavery and anti-colonial resistance; Thirdly, the maroons and enslaved populations, who demonstrated alliances with one another in Dominica during the 1790s and early nineteenth century were not influenced by French Revolutionary ideals, but were pursued for an alliance, and the former, in particular, often rejected alliances with French Revolutionary sympathizers; Lastly, this dissertation takes the maroons of Dominica outside the confines of a national history and connects it to the greater African Diaspora.</p>

Local community participation in overseas development projects as a critical ingredient for long-term program sustainability has become a central policy issue for both government and non-government organizations. It has been recognized that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are viable channels for funding participatory programs. Yet, while NGO strengths for implementing and managing participatory development projects have been extolled, there is little research to demonstrate their effectiveness at the field level. It has also been recognized that NGOs' overseas programs are influenced by the process and circumstances of identifying and obtaining program resources. What is lacking in the analysis of NGOs as channels for participatory development programs is the specific relationship between fundraising and the facilitation of community participation at the project level. / This research has sought to determine the relationship between the facilitation of local community participation and fundraising in overseas development projects. This has been accomplished through an in-depth case analysis of both the fundraising and project field experience of an NGO based in the United States. The study examines how the NGO's development policy compared with its actual field program implementation practice. A comparison was also made between the NGO's traditional small-scale community development work with a more recent large-scale project experience. / Overall, this research has demonstrated that, in the case of the NGO studied, there is a relationship between fundraising and the facilitation of community participation in the agency's overseas projects. Five primary areas of fundraising adversely influencing the facilitation of community participation were identified. / Evidence collected in the field case of the Louga large scale project in Senegal demonstrated that significant local community participation was occurring. / In comparing findings from the large-scale project experience in Louga with findings from the small-scale project research, seven similarities and six differences were identified. Identified are five areas where the small-scale sponsorship approach to fundraising adversely influences the field staffs' ability to facilitate community participation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 4042. / Major Professor: Sydney R. Grant. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.

This dissertation is an ethnography of cultural pluralism in a Fulbe community in Cameroon's Extreme North province. Fulbeness, medicine, gender, and Islam are the principle foci through which Fulbe culture is viewed. Emphasis is placed on the complex, shifting, and often contradictory discourse of Fulbe people themselves. Medical pluralism is but one aspect of cultural pluralism, as the tensions between men and women, Islam and paganism, and Fulbe and non-Fulbe interract in complex ways. The medical section centers on the discourse of people who are not experts in medicine, but who nonetheless employ a wide variety of therapeutic disciplines in preventing and managing affliction. The thesis explores the relation between people and the various orders of knowledge and power which are embedded in the various cultural discourses of the Fulbe terrain / acase@tulane.edu

The role of British officials from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the Military Administration of British-occupied Palestine during and after World War I is examined. Particular focus is given to the administrative structures, personnel, and concerns faced by this Occupied Enemy Territory Administration. Emphasis is placed upon the officers themselves, their backgrounds and their political and administrative functions in Palestine, out of which precedents were established for subsequent British, Jewish, and non-Jewish relationships in the region. Consideration is also given to Britain's overall political interest in the region, and the changes in Britain's political emphasis regarding the Middle East which occurred in the immediate postwar period. / While the focus of the study is on Palestine, it begins with a brief look at British involvement in Egypt and the Sudan before World War I. The role of British officials in Cairo and Khartoum as architects of Britain's postwar policy for a "Middle Eastern Empire" is then examined. After the capture of Jerusalem, many of them were posted to Palestine. Their subsequent role in creating the basic structures and policies for the Military Administration is considered at length. Anglo-Egyptian Sudanese influence is reflected in the areas of personnel, expectations, initiatives and prejudices. The increasingly close relationship of Palestine to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, in spite of attempts by London to prevent it, is also traced. By late 1919, with officials in Palestine still working for realization of wartime policies by then abandoned by London, confrontation was inevitable; the resulting collapse of the Military Administration is followed. Lastly, the ways in which Anglo-Egyptian Sudanese influence continued into the Mandate and later periods are identified. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0927. / Major Professor: Peter P. Garretson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.

The role of the Spanish Foreign Legion from its inception in 1920 to the start of the Rif Rebellion through to the pacification of the Protectorate in 1927 is examined. Particular focus will be given to why the Legion was created, the organization of the Legion within the Army, and the impact it had in reconquering the territory lost after the Annual disaster. Emphasis is placed on the vital need at the time in the Protectorate for "shock troops" capable of fighting the "natives" on their own terms as well as reducing the growing number of Spanish reservists and conscripts that were perishing in the pacification of the Protectorate. Particular consideration is given to the personalities who forged together this unlikely group of volunteers into an elite fighting force and led them in the most important battles of the Riffian War. In the first three chapters, the Legion's creation and first campaigns will be examined, as well as the Annual disaster and its aftermath. Chapters four through eight will cover the middle years of the Rif Rebellion while focusing on the actions and changes which occurred within the Legion: the retreat from Xauen, the Alhucemas Bay landings, and the end of the Moroccan War will be given special attention. Also examined is the debate within Spain at the time between the abandonistas and the africanistas both in the Army and the civilian population over the continuation of the Protectorate. Furthermore, the disastrous campaign waged by ineffective generals, who employed outdated tactics and allowed corruption to destroy the Army in the Protectorate from within, will be touched upon. Lastly, the Regulares who joined the Legion as the "spearhead" of the reconquest of the lost territory, will be examined as the cradle of the coterie of generals who saved the second Republic from a Soviet-style revolution in 1934 (Asturias), but rose up against it in 1936 touching off the bloody Spanish Civil War. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 3268. / Major Professor: Peter P. Garretson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1490. Adviser: James D. Le Sueur. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed March 22, 2007)."

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 has inspired several works in various fields, including literature. At the same time and since the Holocaust, the literary depiction of genocide and mass murder has raised complex issues about the relationship between ethics and esthetics. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the goal of this dissertation is to place the literary narratives of the Rwandan genocide within the larger context of recent studies on the issues of identity as well as the perpetration of evil. The dissertation, thus, hopes to provide a better understanding of both the universal and specific dimensions of the Rwandan genocide.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2007. / Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 25, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0713. Adviser: John H. Hanson.