Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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Against the tide : resistances to Annales in England, France, Germany, Italy and the United States, 1900-1970
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11-30) - ThesisAgainst the Tide investigates systematically for the first time how resistances to methodologies advanced by historians associated with the Annales School, one of the most influential twentieth-century schools of historical ... -
Hatred in print : aspects of anti-Protestant polemic in the French Wars of Religion
(University of St Andrews, 1999) - ThesisThe medium of printing has been persistently associated with Protestantism. As a result, a large body of French Catholic anti-Protestant material was to a large extent ignored. In contrast with Germany, there is evidence ... -
Peru and the British naval station (1808-1839)
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisThe protection of British interests in the Pacific was the basic reason to detach a number of Royal Navy's vessels to that Ocean during the Nineteenth Century. There were several British interests in the area, ... -
Obligation and choice : aspects of family and kinship in seventeenth century County Durham
(University of St Andrews, 1988) - ThesisThe thesis seeks to explore alleged differences in kinship and family relations within County Durham, an area of wide geographical, social and economic diversity. A study of recognition that reveals that kinship ties ... -
Phantoms of Anglo-Confederate commerce : an historical and archaeological investigation of American civil war blockade running
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisDuring the American Civil War Wilmington, North Carolina and the Bermudian ports of St. Georges and Hamilton served as vital links in a complex trading network that developed to facilitate the exchange of southern agricultural ...