Modern History Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Louis Philippe de Segur, 1753-1830 

      Blackbourn-Van Horn, Françoise Denise (University of St Andrews, 1984-07) - Thesis

    • Absolutism in action : Frederick William I and the government of East Prussia, 1709-1730 

      Gothelf, Rodney Mische (University of St Andrews, 1998-05) - Thesis
      This dissertation examines the operation of Hohenzollern government in the distant but crucial territory of East Prussia during the reign of Frederick William I, 1713-40 to determine what impact the establishment of the ...

    • Mathieu Dumas : a biography 

      Duncan, Kenneth A. (University of St Andrews, 1974-10) - Thesis
      In a career spanning nearly seven decades, Mathieu Dumas served France as either a soldier or a legislator under each successive government from Louis XV to Louis-Philippe. Born in 1753, he entered the infantry in 1773 as ...

    • The IRA, Sinn Fein and the hunger strike of 1981 

      Page, Michael von Tangen (University of St Andrews, 1993-07) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the 1981 hunger strike by republican prisoners in Northern Ireland against the removal of special category status from newly convicted paramilitary prisoners on 1 March 1976, the fast was part of a ...

    • Robert Hadow : a case study of an appeaser 

      Michie, Lindsay W. (University of St Andrews, 1989-07) - Thesis
      Historians differ over the origins of Britain's policy of appeasement, and many analyses concentrate on the objectives of policy using the growth of overseas obligations or more recent historical markers such as the Japanese ...