Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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Dietrich von Hildebrand : a Catholic intellectual in the Weimar Republic
(University of St Andrews, 2017) - ThesisThis thesis examines the intellectual activity of the German Catholic philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). It fills a gap both in the Hildebrand scholarship and the ... -
Democracy and representation in the French Directory, 1795–1799
(University of St Andrews, 2018-11) - ThesisDemocracy was no more than a marginal force during the eighteenth century, unanimously denounced as a chimerical form of government unfit for passionate human beings living in commercial societies. Placed in this context ... -
The Habsburg Empire under foreign eyes : experiences and encounters of nineteenth-century travellers, c. 1815-1869
(University of St Andrews, 2017) - ThesisIn his seminal 1994 study ‘Inventing Eastern Europe’, Larry Wolff argued that Eastern Europe was created in the Enlightenment era and conceptualised along a dividing line stretching from Szczecin at the Baltic to Trieste ... -
The Bourbon monarchy and the cult of Saint Louis, 1589-1792
(University of St Andrews, 2017) - ThesisThis thesis examines the relationship between religion and politics in France by looking at the cult of Saint Louis under the bourbon kings of the ‘ancien regime’, from the accession of Henri IV in 1589 to the abolition ... -
Fighting the last war : Britain, the lost generation and the Second World War
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisConcerted efforts to debunk popular myths about the Great War have resulted in cant attention being paid to the purpose and value of the lost generation myth within British society, particularly during times of further ...