Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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The culture of music printing in sixteenth-century Augsburg
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06) - ThesisIn the early sixteenth century, the free imperial city of Augsburg in southern Germany played a vital role in the development of music printing with movable type north of the Alps. These technical advances impacted on ... -
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An analysis of the Stationers’ Company Register, lost books and printing in London, 1557-1640
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - ThesisMy thesis is the first attempt to analyse systematically the entries relating to lost books in the Stationers’ Company Register. The monopoly of the Stationers’ Company centralised book production in England to the limited ... -
Travel in the Alps : the construction of a transnational space through digital and mental mapping (c. 1750s-1850s)
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - ThesisThe period between the 1750s and 1830s witnessed a major change in travel practices in Europe, moving away from the traditional Grand Tour and focusing more on natural places, their visual power, and their influence on ... -
Race in a Godless world : atheists and racial thought in Britain and the United States, c. 1850-1914
(University of St Andrews, 2017) - Thesis“Race in a Godless World” examines the racial thought of atheists in Britain and the United States from about 1850 to 1914. While there have been no comprehensive studies of atheists’ views on race, there is a trend in the ...