Scottish History: Recent submissions
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Scottish commercial contacts with the Iberian world, 1581-1730
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisThis thesis analyses the commercial relations between Scotland and the geo-political area known as the Iberian world in the early modern period. Despite being geographically one of the largest areas of Europe, as well as ... -
The Reformation in the burgh of St Andrews : property, piety and power
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisThis thesis examines the impact of the Reformation on the estates of ecclesiastical institutions and officials based in St Andrews. It argues that land and wealth were redistributed and power structures torn apart, as ... -
Ethnonyms in the place-names of Scotland and the Border counties of England
(University of St Andrews, 2013-11-30) - ThesisThis study has collected and analysed a database of place-names containing potential ethnonymic elements. Competing models of ethnicity are investigated and applied to names about which there is reasonable confidence. A ... -
Female petty crime in Dundee, 1865-1925 : alcohol, prostitution and recidivism in a Scottish city
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisLate-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Dundee had a strikingly large female workforce and this fact has attracted much scholarly attention. But existing research has not probed the official crime records to determine ... -
Propaganda and persuasion in the early Scottish Reformation, c.1527-1557
(University of St Andrews, 2013-11-30) - ThesisThe decades before the Scottish Reformation Parliament of 1560 witnessed the unprecedented use of a range of different media to disseminate the Protestant message and to shape beliefs and attitudes. By placing these works ...