Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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In the belly of the bear? : Soviet-Iranian relations during the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThe question mark of the project's title alludes to a critical reexamination of Soviet- Iranian relations during the period and aims to offer an original contribution to scholarship in the field by exploring an aspect ... -
Louis XIV et le repos de l'Italie : French policy towards the duchies of Parma, Modena, and Mantua-Monferrato, 1659-1689
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06) - ThesisBetween 1659 and 1689, northern Italy was generally at peace, having endured almost three decades of continuous war from the 1620s. The Peace of the Pyrenees of November 1659, between the French and Spanish crowns, seemed ... -
The sum of their fears : the Committee on the Present Danger, the demise of détente, and threat inflation, 1976-1980
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06) - ThesisThis dissertation seeks to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the political pressure group the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), which formed in 1976. The group’s establishment, attainment of credibility, ... -
The circulation and collection of Italian printed books in sixteenth-century France
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis is an examination of the circulation networks and the patterns of collection of Italian printed books in France in the sixteenth century. Although the cultural relations between the Italian and French territory ... -
Economic and financial strategies of the British Catholic community in the age of mercantilism, 1672-1781
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis dissertation examines the British Catholic community during the Age of Mercantilism. It opens with John Aylward’s trade in the early 1670s and closes with the death of Bishop Richard Challoner in the late eighteenth ...