Modern History: Recent submissions
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Publishing in Paris, 1570-1590 : a bibliometric analysis
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-23) - ThesisThis thesis is an examination of the printing industry in Paris between 1570 and 1590. These years represent a relatively under-researched period in the history of Parisian print. This period is of importance because of ... -
Family, ambition and service : the French nobility and the emergence of the standing army, c. 1598-1635
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06) - ThesisThis thesis will contend that a permanent body of military force under royal command, a ‘standing army’, arose during the first three decades of the seventeenth century in France. Such a development constituted a transformation ... -
Culture from the midnight hour : a critical reassessment of the black power movement in twentieth century America
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-23) - ThesisThe thesis seeks to develop a more sophisticated view of the black power movement in twentieth century America by analysing the movement’s cultural legacy. The rise, maturation and decline of black power as a political ... -
The mobilisation and transmission of memories within the Pied-Noir and Harki communities, 1962-2007
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06-24) - ThesisFocusing on the legacies of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), this thesis challenges the perception that this was the ‘war without a name’ by exploring the ways in which memories have been preserved, mobilised, ... -
Wordmongers : post-medieval scribal culture and the case of Sighvatur Grímsson
(University of St Andrews, 2009) - ThesisThe subject matter of this thesis is manuscript and scribal culture in the age of print. Its first part explores the flourishing scholarship of post-medieval scribal culture in Europe and beyond over the past 25-30 years, ...