Modern History

The Department of Modern History offers a range of degree programmes and other study opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students covering the period from the Renaissance (the late 15th century) to the present day.
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Delivering the news : the Huguenot gazettes published in the Dutch Republic compared with the Paris Gazette, 1671-1701
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis represents the first analytical overview of the Huguenot gazettes that were published in the Dutch Republic during the last quarter of the seventeenth century (1671-1701). Huguenots settled in the Dutch Republic ... -
Propaganda and territorialisation : SA imagery and power, 1923-1945
(2023-06-15) - ThesisIt was once argued that the Sturmabteilung lost political power in the Nazi state after the 1934 Night of the Long Knives. However, since the 1980s, there is a growing body of literature that has shown that the SA not only ... -
Narratives of grievance and victimisation in Iranian foreign policy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and President Manhood Ahmadinejad
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis investigates one of Iran’s grand narratives, the myth of victimisation, as a tool of the Iranian political elite to achieve foreign policy goals. It studies the leadership of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), ... -
Russia’s military strategy and the Entente in the First World War, 1914–1917
(2023-06-15) - ThesisIn the last thirty years the appreciation of the First World War as ‘the war of coalitions’ has gained widespread recognition, and firmly established itself as one of the most prominent approaches to the evaluation of the ... -
The Dundee Arctic trade, 1858-1922 : people, connections and spaces on the peripheries
(2023-06-15) - ThesisExisting whaling historiography frames the end of the traditional whaling era in the Arctic along established interpretational and methodological paradigms. These perspectives consider the industry almost entirely within ...