Historians Without Borders

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionSection 1Introduction: History and the Other MusesThe Rubble of the Other: Beethoven’s Ruins of AthensTekla Babyak"Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition": Propaganda Music as a Governmental Marketing Tool During the WWII EraZoë Jensiene GodfreyCan the Subaltern Laugh? A Study of Humor, Power and ResistanceMiguel Alberto Novoa CiprianiSection 2Introduction: Culture and CognitionExtended Evolutionary Synthesis: Linking History and Cognitive ScienceAlina ShronCommon Quest: The Search for the Everyday Person in the Merovingian AgeMatthew GardnerSection 3Introduction: Altered and Hostile EnvironmentsGeophysical Agency in the Anthropocene: Engineering a Road and River to Rocky Mountain National ParkWill WrightThe Politics of Solitude: Listening to Environmental Change in Rocky Mountain National Park, 1945-PresentMark BoxellHidden in Plain Sight: Rethinking Saharan Studies as a DisciplineSarah GilkersonSection 4Introduction: Contested Places and SpacesIndigenous Land Ownership in the Praying Towns of the Southern New England BorderlandsTaylor KirschForgotten: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918Srijita PatelHistorical Realities: Voices from the War of Algerian DecolonizationArianna Barzman-GrennanSection 5Introduction: Movement and TravelNegotiating the Sixteenth-Century Road: Diplomacy and Travel in Early Modern EuropeKrzystof OdyniecGoing It Alone: Practical Travel Manuals and Independent Women Travelers in the Nineteenth CenturyJill PoulsenIndex