Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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"If she was every inch a queen, she was also every inch a woman" : Victoria's queenship and constitutional monarchy in 19th-century Britain
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis explores Queen Victoria’s queenship in nineteenth-century Britain, with a particular emphasis on the impact of her gender on her relationship with the Prime Minister in the context of the development of a ... -
The devotion of collecting : ministers and the culture of print in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic
(University of St Andrews, 2020-07-30) - ThesisThis project is the first to analyze the known corpus of seventeenth-century Dutch ministerial library catalogues, and it asks how these sources inform our understanding of the religious and cultural climate during the ... -
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The German newspaper in its first years of existence
(University of St Andrews, 2020-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis traces the birth and spread of the newspaper in the Holy Roman Empire in the first half of the seventeenth century. It examines the emergence of the new form of communication between 1605, the year that Johann ... -
Early sole editorship of natural philosophical and scientific periodicals in the Holy Roman Empire and Britain, 1770s-1830s
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-04) - ThesisToday, editors of science journals exercise a significant power over academic careers and the production of scientific knowledge—their editorial influence is rooted in the period 1770-1830 and the advent of sole editorship ...