Rice Historical Review Spring 2018

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The Rice Historical Review is a research journal designed to showcase outstanding scholarly works produced by Rice University's undergraduate students.

Table of Contents

In order of appearance.

—Front Matter (PDF | 199.1 kB)

—A Virgin Queen, But Not By Choice
by Emily Abdow (PDF | 257.6 kB)

—Race, Labor, and Class in Interwar New York
by David Ratnoff (PDF | 617.5 kB)

—A Carefully Constructed History: Gregory of Tours and the Observation of Societal Shift in Merovingian Gaul
by Oliver Lucier (PDF | 600.7 kB )

—How to Build a Villain: Aurangzeb, Temple Destruction, and His Modern Reputation
by Maximilian F. Murdoch (PDF | 484.1 kB)

—Michael E. Debakey High School for Health Professions: Houston Magnet Schools and the Mandate of Integration
by Benjamin Jones (PDF | 884.3 kB)

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Editorial Board

Daniel Russell, Editor-in-Chief
Anthony Tome, Managing Editor
Matthew Franklin, Assistant Managing Editor
Jessica Guerra, Director of Copy Editing
Madison Grimes, Director of Publishing
Jennifer Truitt, Director of Public Affairs
Yves Ye, Secretary-Treasurer
Alison Drileck, Co-Director of Podcasting
Mikayla Knutson, Co-Director of Podcasting

Faculty Review Board

Dr. Lisa Spiro | Historical Review Faculty Advisor | Executive Director of Digital Scholarship Services
Dr. Lisa Balabanlilar | Associate Professor of History | South Asia, Ottoman Empire, Islamic World
Dr. John Boles | William P. Hobby Professor of History | America and the South, Rice
Dr. Peter Caldwell | Samuel G. McCann Professor of History | Modern Germany, Europe, Political Thought
Dr. Nathan Citino | Associate Professor | US and Middle East
Dr. Randal Hall | Associate Professor of History | American, Economic, Environmental
Dr. Alida Metcalf | Chair of the History Department | Colonial Latin America, Brazil
Dr. Kerry Ward | Associate Professor of History | World and African

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    A Carefully Constructed History: Gregory of Tours and the Observation of Societal Shift in Merovingian Gaul
    (Rice University, 2018) Lucier, Oliver; Samperio, Isabel
    Gregory of Tours, a powerful sixth French century bishop, was also an influential historian. His major work, The History of the Franks, provided a detailed account of politics and society in fifth and sixth century France. By focusing on several key passages of this text, I argue that Gregory used his position as an historian to argue for a complementary religious and political order where secular, Merovingian rulers and religious leaders worked in concert. Gregory believed that this combined order was necessary to provide security and stability in the tumultuous aftermath of the fall of Rome.
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    Race, Labor, and Class in Interwar New York
    (Rice University, 2018) Ratnoff, David; Williamson, Frances
    Black urban politics in New York City blossomed as black migrants found employment in the industrial North during the Great Migration. Publishing its first issue in 1917, the black radical newspaper the Messenger, sought to raise race and-class consciousness among its readership. Heralding the “New Negro,” the Messenger promoted Socialist politics and encouraged trade unionism. An important interlocutor with other black periodicals, the Messenger argued that racial advancement was predicated on class consciousness and labor organization. Yet the Messenger’s short lifespan reflected the limits of Socialist politics as a vehicle for black political mobilization.
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    How to Build a Villain: Aurangzeb, Temple Destruction, and His Modern Reputation
    (Rice University, 2018) Murdoch, Maximilian F.
    This paper is a study of the spatial relationship between temples destroyed in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707) and other significant spatial characteristics of the Mughal Empire in his time, including its southern border and the geographic distribution of religious groups. It also places these relationships in the context of the contemporary political narrative as well the current one. Using an ArcGIS project built to explore the spatial relationship, this paper tests the hypothesis that temple destruction under Aurangzeb was religiously motivated, and concludes that this hypothesis ought to be rejected. Work from other scholars in the field illustrates why this hypothesis is none the less deeply ingrained in India’s modern political landscape, and how that came to pass.
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    Back Matter 2018 Spring Issue
    (Rice University, 2018)
    CONTENTS: Editorial Board -- About Us -- Acknowledgements -- Future Contributions
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    Front Matter 2018 Spring Issue
    (Rice University, 2018)
    CONTENTS: Editorial Board -- Faculty Board -- Sponsors -- Table of Contents
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    A Virgin Queen, But Not by Choice
    (Rice University, 2018) Abdow, Emily; Fritz, Anna
    “A Virgin Queen, But Not By Choice” explores the question of why Queen Elizabeth I never married. The essay argues that Elizabeth’s gender required her to have the full support of both her privy council and parliament to tie the knot on a marriage, which proved an impossible feat. In addition, the essay argues the debates surrounding each potential match- including fears of a Catholic suitors influence in Protestant England - were political repercussions of her womanhood. The failed courtships of Robert Dudley, Charles Archduke of Austria, and Francis, Duke of Anjou, serve as case studies that illustrate Elizabeth’s inability to proceed with any match due to divides among her councilors. Ultimately, the essay demonstrates how Elizabeth’s very virginity was a decision made by for her by her male councilors.
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    Michael E. Debakey High School for Health Professions: Houston Magnet Schools and the Mandate of Integration
    (Rice University, 2018) Jones, Benjamin
    In the 1970s, the Houston Independent School District embarked on an ambitious program of voluntary desegregation driven by magnet schools. The DeBakey High School for Health Professions, which offered high quality career education to students across the district, quickly became the program’s flagship institution. Forty years later, DeBakey serves a disproportionately white and Asian student body and integration is no longer a goal of the school. The language of choice, once used by segregationists, has been refashioned to suit the purposes of the magnet school. Waning commitment to DeBakey’s integrative potential is emblematic of Houston’s failed attempt at racial equality.
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    Stranger Lands: Politics, Ethnicity, and Occupation on the Eastern Front, 1914-1918
    (Rice University, 2018) Dreyer, Gary
    This seminar paper seeks to reconstruct how ethnic politics and inter-communal relations in Eastern Europe during World War I were central to the war’s conduct and legacy. Examining different popular and institutional understandings of ethnicity in the Russian and German Empires prior to 1914 and during the war proved to be key to understanding the breakdown of relations between occupying Germans, local nationalists, and Jewish communities, paving the way for the contentious ethnic politics of interwar Europe, which in-turn played a key role in driving Europe towards the destruction of World War II.