Modern History: Recent submissions
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'Take me up on my proposal' : the 'Open Skies' initiative and Dwight D. Eisenhower's efforts to curb the military-industrial complex
(University of St Andrews, 2011) - ThesisThis dissertation examines president Eisenhower’s ‘Open Skies’ policy and its links with American defence strategy of the 1950s. Based principally on archival sources, especially the records of the Eisenhower Presidential ... -
The development of Islamic political thought in relation to the West during the mid-twentieth century
(University of St Andrews, 2011) - ThesisThis research is about the development of Islamic political thought in relation to the West during the mid-twentieth century. It utilizes the ideas and writings of the Islamic thinkers Sayyid Qutb of Egypt, Ali Shariati ... -
Against the tide : resistances to Annales in England, France, Germany, Italy and the United States, 1900-1970
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11-30) - ThesisAgainst the Tide investigates systematically for the first time how resistances to methodologies advanced by historians associated with the Annales School, one of the most influential twentieth-century schools of historical ... -
Hatred in print : aspects of anti-Protestant polemic in the French Wars of Religion
(University of St Andrews, 1999) - ThesisThe medium of printing has been persistently associated with Protestantism. As a result, a large body of French Catholic anti-Protestant material was to a large extent ignored. In contrast with Germany, there is evidence ... -
Peru and the British naval station (1808-1839)
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisThe protection of British interests in the Pacific was the basic reason to detach a number of Royal Navy's vessels to that Ocean during the Nineteenth Century. There were several British interests in the area, ...