Modern History: Recent submissions

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    • The historical imagination of Christopher Dawson 

      Sproviero, Glen A. (University of St Andrews, 2008-11) - Thesis
      Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of his generation's most important historians and religious thinkers, and was a significant influence on many contemporaries including T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and Russell Kirk. ...

    • French military occupations of Lorraine and Savoie, 1670-1714 

      McCluskey, Phil (University of St Andrews, 2009-06-25) - Thesis
      Lorraine and Savoie were both occupied twice by French armies during the personal rule of Louis XIV. Lorraine was initially invaded and occupied in 1670 to support the French strategic and logistic position in the Dutch ...

    • William Cecil and the British succession crisis of the 1560s 

      Alford, Stephen (University of St Andrews, 1997) - Thesis
      'William Cecil and the British succession crisis of the 1560s' reconsiders the nature of the early Elizabethan polity and Cecil's place in it. Conventional historiography maintains that as principal secretary Cecil was a ...

    • Hydroelectricity and landscape protection in the Highlands of Scotland, 1919 - 1980 

      Payne, Jill (University of St Andrews, 2008-06) - Thesis
      This thesis employs twentieth-century hydroelectric development ventures in the Highlands of Scotland as a means of exploring conflicting demands of socio-economic development and landscape protection in cherished places. In ...

    • Panic over the pub : drink and the First World War 

      Duncan, Robert R G (University of St Andrews, 2008-11) - Thesis
      My Ph.D thesis, Panic over the Pub: Drink and the First World War, considers the causes, consequences and control of popular drinking behaviour and how broader currents of social debate affected the perception of the alleged ...