Modern History Theses
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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Recent Submissions
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Iranian foreign policy and legitimation : an examination of Iranian nuclear deal and interventions in Iraq and Syria
(University of St Andrews, 2021-12-01) - ThesisAbstract redacted -
Women as book producers : the case of Nuremberg
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis explores the multifaceted roles in which women participated in the early modern book trade. Focusing on Nuremberg, home to many successful bookwomen, it examines how they crafted work identities and exercised ... -
Visual commonplacing : the transmission and reception of printed devotional images in Reformed England
(University of St Andrews, 2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis introduces the framework of ‘visual commonplacing’ as a way of analysing the repeating illustrations printed in early modern English books and ephemera. This research focuses on religious relief-cut images ... -
The new now : German modernists and news media, 1918-1951
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThe thesis explores how German modernists understood the interrelation between news media and the experience of present time. The German modernists whose formative cultural and political experience was the Weimar Republic ... -
The 1939 New York World’s Fair : cultural diplomacy in the age of Fascism
(2024-06-13) - ThesisFewer than five months before the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the world was invited to New York City to celebrate the opening of the final international exposition of the interwar period. Touted by Fair ...