History (School of): Recent submissions
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Louis XIV et le repos de l'Italie : French policy towards the duchies of Parma, Modena, and Mantua-Monferrato, 1659-1689
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06) - ThesisBetween 1659 and 1689, northern Italy was generally at peace, having endured almost three decades of continuous war from the 1620s. The Peace of the Pyrenees of November 1659, between the French and Spanish crowns, seemed ... -
The sum of their fears : the Committee on the Present Danger, the demise of détente, and threat inflation, 1976-1980
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06) - ThesisThis dissertation seeks to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the political pressure group the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), which formed in 1976. The group’s establishment, attainment of credibility, ... -
Science for Children
(Thoemmes Continuum, 2003-01-15) - Scholarly textFacsimile reprints, with scholarly introductions, of: Aikin and Barbauld, Evenings at Home (1792-96); [S. Clark], Peter Parley's Wonders of the Earth, Sea and Sky (1837); [C. Williams] Wonders of the Waters (1842); [S.W. ... -
Neither Scotland nor England : Middle Britain, c.850–1150
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisIn and around the 870s, Britain was transformed dramatically by the campaigns and settlements of the Great Army and its allies. Some pre-existing political communities suffered less than others, and in hindsight the process ... -
Community and public authority in later fifteenth-century Scotland
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis offers a reassessment of the political culture of Scotland in the later fifteenth century, from c. 1440 to c. 1490, through an examination of communitarian discourses and practices. It argues that the current ...