Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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Crown finance and governance under James I : projects and fiscal policy 1603-1625
(University of St Andrews, 1997-06) - ThesisThis thesis is a fundamental reassessment of Jacobean crown finance and its importance in the early-modern English polity. The concurrent focuses are the Jacobean conceptualization of crown finance in terms of projects and ... -
Steps on the road of appeasement : British foreign policy-making 1931-1939
(University of St Andrews, 1997-06) - ThesisThis thesis studies the step-by-step process of foreign policy making within the British Government from 1931 to 1939. It aims to pin-point the origin, evolution and nature of appeasement, the principal policy-makers' ... -
A study of Anglo-Scottish relations, 1637-43
(University of St Andrews, 1954-12) - Thesis -
The development of regulations for preventing collisions in inland, inshore, and open waters of the UK during the first half of the nineteenth century
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisThis work shows how the regulations to avoid collisions developed from local rules and unwritten agreements to Government law for steam-vessels within 75 years until 1850. The chaotic state of shipping on rivers and ... -
The 'Cosmographia' of Sebastian Münster
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThe sixteenth century was a time in which knowledge about the world grew exponentially in both its material content and the enthusiasm with which works treating of it were received. One of the most popular, long-lived and ...