1st Edition

Historians Without Borders New Studies in Multidisciplinary History

Edited By Lawrence Abrams, Kaleb Knoblauch Copyright 2019
    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    This text explores a variety of themes developed from successive years of the University of California, Davis, multidisciplinary graduate conference. It draws out connections on a wide array of topics among the arts, humanities, and sciences in history for multidisciplinary study. This text presents a rare forum for multidisciplinary connections researched and presented by junior specialists in their respective fields. It enables both creativity and flexibility in drawing out connections that are frequently overlooked by more specialized senior scholars. This book is a unique exercise in the promotion of junior scholarly achievement and multidisciplinary research.

    Acknowledgements





    Introduction





    Section 1





    Introduction: History and the Other Muses





    The Rubble of the Other: Beethoven’s Ruins of Athens



    Tekla Babyak





    "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition": Propaganda Music as a Governmental Marketing Tool During the WWII Era



    Zoë Jensiene Godfrey





    Can the Subaltern Laugh? A Study of Humor, Power and Resistance



    Miguel Alberto Novoa Cipriani





    Section 2





    Introduction: Culture and Cognition





    Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Linking History and Cognitive Science



    Alina Shron





    Common Quest: The Search for the Everyday Person in the Merovingian Age



    Matthew Gardner





    Section 3





    Introduction: Altered and Hostile Environments





    Geophysical Agency in the Anthropocene: Engineering a Road and River to Rocky Mountain National Park



    Will Wright





    The Politics of Solitude: Listening to Environmental Change in Rocky Mountain National Park, 1945-Present



    Mark Boxell





    Hidden in Plain Sight: Rethinking Saharan Studies as a Discipline



    Sarah Gilkerson





    Section 4





    Introduction: Contested Places and Spaces





    Indigenous Land Ownership in the Praying Towns of the Southern New England Borderlands



    Taylor Kirsch





    Forgotten: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918



    Srijita Patel





    Historical Realities: Voices from the War of Algerian Decolonization



    Arianna Barzman-Grennan





    Section 5





    Introduction: Movement and Travel





    Negotiating the Sixteenth-Century Road: Diplomacy and Travel in Early Modern Europe



    Krzystof Odyniec





    Going It Alone: Practical Travel Manuals and Independent Women Travelers in the Nineteenth Century



    Jill Poulsen





    Index



    Biography

    Lawrence Abrams is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Davis, specializing in Modern British History, and focusing on Scottish ethnic, national, and imperial history. His dissertation explores ideas of union and changing modes for the expression of Scottish identity in political, military, and cultural arenas. He is also working on a project investigating the relationship between comics and national identity in an international and post-colonial context in the activist comic years since 1970.



    Kaleb Knoblauch is a PhD Candidate in Modern European History at the University of California, Davis, specializing in France in the nineteenth century, with a focus on Breton and Celtic history, mass culture, gender, and identity formation. His dissertation examines the region of Brittany in the long nineteenth century to argue that increased mobility and mass culture in the Third Republic changed how French people imagined the relationship between regional and national identities.