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Recent Submissions
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The Habsburg Empire under foreign eyes : experiences and encounters of nineteenth-century travellers, c. 1815-1869
(University of St Andrews, 2017) - ThesisIn his seminal 1994 study ‘Inventing Eastern Europe’, Larry Wolff argued that Eastern Europe was created in the Enlightenment era and conceptualised along a dividing line stretching from Szczecin at the Baltic to Trieste ... -
The Bourbon monarchy and the cult of Saint Louis, 1589-1792
(University of St Andrews, 2017) - ThesisThis thesis examines the relationship between religion and politics in France by looking at the cult of Saint Louis under the bourbon kings of the ‘ancien regime’, from the accession of Henri IV in 1589 to the abolition ... -
Fighting the last war : Britain, the lost generation and the Second World War
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisConcerted efforts to debunk popular myths about the Great War have resulted in cant attention being paid to the purpose and value of the lost generation myth within British society, particularly during times of further ... -
Divergent timescapes : tracking a temporal revolution through the long nineteenth century (1750-1914)
(University of St Andrews, 2017) - ThesisDid nineteenth-century Britain experience a temporal revolution? If so, how can the course and impact of such a complex, primarily mental upheaval be effectively analysed from a focused, historical perspective? This ... -
The influence of industrial technology and material procurement on the design, construction and development of H.M.S. Victory
(University of St Andrews, 1998-06) - ThesisThe aim of this paper is to show how industrial technology and material procurement influenced the development of British warship design and construction for the period 1760 to 1830 using the construction of HMS Victory ...
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