Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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He remains an Englishman? : masculine nostalgia and the perception of the German threat in mid-Victorian and Edwardian England
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the prevalence, pertinence, and potency of a recurrent gender discourse in mid-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England: masculine nostalgia. Nostalgic views of the national past abounded ... -
A culture of reuse : libraries, learning and memory in early modern Germany
(2022-11-29) - ThesisThis dissertation studies the collection and reuse of scholarly books in early modern Germany. Employing a book-historical methodology for the wider history of knowledge, I show why used books played such a central role ... -
The London Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the First World War : musical institutions, cultural identity and national conflict in Britain and Imperial Germany
(University of St Andrews, 2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis offers a comparative study of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) during the First World War (WWI), examining how their music-making and their performances were ... -
“To promote some publick Good, by the Joint Endeavours of a Number of People” : hereditary societies in Philadelphia and Charleston, 1740-1810
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on the English, German, and Scottish societies in Philadelphia and Charleston from the 1740s until the 1810s. It argues the significance of early American charitable organizations in maintaining and ... -
Radical ideas of political practice in 1780s and 1790s Britain
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis examines ideas about political tactics in 1780s and 1790s Britain. Edmund Burke characterised radicals in the aftermath of the French Revolution as speculative thinkers with no understanding of political ...