Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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The 1939 New York World’s Fair : cultural diplomacy in the age of Fascism
(2024-06-13) - ThesisFewer than five months before the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the world was invited to New York City to celebrate the opening of the final international exposition of the interwar period. Touted by Fair ... -
Decolonising white Africa : examining the experiences of Kenyans
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-22) - ThesisLegitimised during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through racial views based upon pseudo-scientific rhetoric, and routinely simplified in the present, historical literature about white colonial communities ... -
An exploration of Guernsey's relationship with the British Empire in the age of imperialism, c.1880s-c.1920s
(2024-06-13) - ThesisThe Channel Islands are the surviving relics of the Duchy of Normandy. As such, their relationship to Britain and position within the Empire were unique. Fundamental to the constitutional relationship was the British ... -
Hidden in plain sight : printing for the Catholic community in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis represents the first analytical overview of Catholic printing in the Dutch Republic over the course of the long seventeenth century (1566-1723). Roman Catholics made up a substantial proportion of the population ...