Rice Historical Review Spring 2019

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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.

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—Front Matter (PDF | 929.1 kB)

—Contested Symbols: Vichy France and the Legacy of the French Revolution
by Emma Satterfield (PDF | 1.090 Mb)

—Remembering Rice: How Should the University Acknowledge and Represent its Founder’s Past?
by Andrew Maust (PDF | 1.473 Mb)

—Jahangir, Collector: Seizing the World
by Clair Hopper (PDF | 1.578 Mb)

—Through the Looking Glass: Themes in Narratives by Arabs, Americans, and Europeans from 1890 to 1960
by Meredith Aucock (PDF | 3.905 Mb )

—Hysteria: Medicine as a Vehicle for Gendered Social Control
by Ginger Hooper(PDF | 2.198 Mb)

—Back Matter (PDF | 1.139 Mb)

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Editorial Board

Darren Pomida, Editor-in-Chief
Daniel Russell, Editor-in-Chief
Anthony Tohme, Managing Editor
Alison Drileck, Publishing Director
Mikayla Knutson, Assistant Managing Editor
Abigail Panitz, Director of Copy Editing
Edward Plaut, Director of Podcasting
Pamela McInturff, Assistant Director of Copy Editing
Miriam Wolter, Director of Public Affairs
Laura Li, Art Director
Jon Parts, Event Director and Treasurer
Audrey Paetzel, Director of Outreach
Cameron Wallace, Assistant Director of Podcasting
Andrew Manias, Director of Distribution

Faculty Review Board

Dr. Lisa Spiro | Historical Review Faculty Advisor | Executive Director of Digital Scholarship Services
Dr. Peter C. Caldwell| Samuel G. McCann Professor of History| Chair of the History Department
Dr. G. Daniel Cohen| Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Associate Professor of History
Dr. Aysha Pollnitz| Assistant Professor of History| Director of Undergraduate Studies, History
Dr. Daniel Dominguez da Silva| Assistant Professor of History
Dr. Lisa Balabanlilar| Associate Professor of History
Dr. Randal L. Hall| Associate Professor of History| Editor, Journal of Southern History
Dr. John B. Boles| William P. Hobby Professor of History
Dr. Alida C. Metcalf| Harris Masterson Jr. Professor of History
Dr. Alexander X. Byrd| Associate Professor of History
Dr. Paula A. Sanders| Professor of History
Dr. Nathan Citino| Barbara Kirkland Chiles Professor of History
Dr. Kerry R. Ward| Associate Professor of History

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Contested Symbols: Vichy France and the Legacy of the French Revolution
(Rice University, 2019) Satterfield, Emma; Williamson, Frances
This paper examines how Vichy, the authoritarian government in France throughout most of the Second World War, reckoned with the legacy of the French Revolution. I investigate this relationship through the regime’s treatment of four revolutionary symbols: the figure Marianne, the anthem “La Marseillaise,” the national holiday of Bastille Day, and the slogan of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Because these symbols were deeply embedded in French social and political life, I argue that Vichy could neither fully reject nor embrace them; instead, it pursued a middle ground by twisting the symbols’ meanings and introducing alternatives in line with the traditionalism and ethnocentrism of its National Revolution. In doing so, Vichy attempted to replace the French Republic and the revolutionary values that it stood for with its own vision of the French past, present, and future.
Hysteria: Medicine as a Vehicle for Gendered Social Control
(Rice University, 2019) Hooper, Ginger; Li, Laura; Luo, Yi
This paper analyzes the historical phenomenon of hysteria, a psychiatric label once commonly applied to female patients to explain a variety of physical ailments and deviant behaviors. Beginning with an examination of its ancient historical roots, the paper then focuses on hysteria’s application in Victorian England. Hysteria can be viewed as both cause and consequence of a male-dominated society and medical profession, used a means of enforcing traditional gender roles and expectations for feminine sexuality. By emphasizing and pathologizing the female reproductive organs, diagnoses of hysteria reinforced cultural ideas about women’s reproductive role and the male physician’s right to regulate that role. In these ways, hysteria is a compelling example of the socially contingent nature of illness and the power of medicine as a tool of social control.
Jahangir, Collector: Seizing the World
(Rice University, 2019) Hopper, Clair
Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) was an avid collector of many things: art, animals, and natural wonders. By tracing his acquisition habits, including networks of trade and types of acquisitions, this article reveals how the emperor constructed his self-concept by way of his collection. Jahangir collected prestige objects to reinforce his own wealth, but also desired to know and possess the most fantastic animals, plants, stones, or other natural oddities. By allowing him to place his mark on such a wide range of objects, Jahangir’s collection justified his regnal title: Jahangir, World-Seizer.
Remembering Rice: How Should the University Acknowledge and Represent its Founder’s Past?
(Rice University, 2019) Maust, Andrew; Wu, Xiaoyu (Linda)
William Marsh Rice, who chartered the Rice Institute, is popularly remembered for his philanthropy and for his dramatic murder. Often left out of the common narrative is his involvement in slavery, and the Texas cotton trade. This paper explores the current remembrance of Rice, details his connections to slavery, and provides a recommendation to Rice University on how to address the history of its founder. This recommendation is contextualized with how other universities have begun to address their ties to slavery.
Front Matter 2019 Spring Issue
(Rice University, 2019)
CONTENTS: Editorial Board -- Faculty Board -- Table of Contents -- Letter from Editor
Back Matter 2019 Spring Issue
(Rice University, 2019)
CONTENTS: Editorial Board -- About Us -- Acknowledgements -- Featured Locations
Through the Looking Glass: Themes in Narratives by Arabs, Americans, and Europeans from 1890 to 1960
(Rice University, 2019) Aucock, Meredith; Yuan, Maggie
As relations between the United States and the countries of the Middle East evolved from the arrival of Protestant missionaries in 19th-century Jerusalem to the imperialist presence of American oil companies in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s, travel narratives written about America and the Middle East also evolved. This article documents the changes and continuities over time that occur in these narratives while also taking into account similar narratives from European sources that provide context for these changes and continuities. From 1890 to 1960, travel narratives written by American and European authors grew to reflect more clearly the stark imbalance of power in favor of countries with imperialist ambitions in the Middle East. At the same time, travel narratives about America written by individuals from the Middle East increasingly tried to fight this imbalance through their depictions of East and West.

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