Modern History Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Hydroelectricity and landscape protection in the Highlands of Scotland, 1919 - 1980 

      Payne, Jill (University of St Andrews, 2008-06) - Thesis
      This thesis employs twentieth-century hydroelectric development ventures in the Highlands of Scotland as a means of exploring conflicting demands of socio-economic development and landscape protection in cherished places. In ...

    • Panic over the pub : drink and the First World War 

      Duncan, Robert R G (University of St Andrews, 2008-11) - Thesis
      My Ph.D thesis, Panic over the Pub: Drink and the First World War, considers the causes, consequences and control of popular drinking behaviour and how broader currents of social debate affected the perception of the alleged ...

    • A prophet of interior Lutheranism : the correspondence of Johann Arndt 

      van Voorhis, Daniel R. (University of St Andrews, 2008-06-26) - Thesis
      For over four hundred years historians and theologians have been unable to come to a consensus as to where Johann Arndt (1555-1621) fits on the spectrum of orthodoxy in the Lutheran church, what age he best represented, ...

    • Shipbuilding and timber management in the Royal Dockyards 1750-1850 : an archaeological investigation of timber marks 

      Atkinson, Daniel Edward (University of St Andrews, 2007) - Thesis
      This work presents a study of shipbuilding and timber management in the Royal Dockyards in the period 1750 – 1850, focusing on an archaeological investigation of ship timber marks. The first chapter outlines the concept ...

    • French royal acts printed before 1601 

      Kim, Lauren J (University of St Andrews, 2008-06-26) - Thesis
      This thesis is a study of royal acts printed in French before 1601. The kingdom of France is a natural place to begin a study of royal acts. It possessed one of the oldest judicial systems in Europe, which had been ...