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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"D204 Modern History"”.
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Glasgow Harbour: a marketable heritage?
Glasgow Harbour is a changing landscape. Heavy engineering once the stalwart of the area and especially the shipbuilding tradition earned it the reputation as the “workshop of the world”. Today the identity of Glasgow Harbour is being radically challenged through its current regeneration project. …
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Danish naval administration and shipbuilding in the reign of Christian IV (1596-1648)
… finance became a highly contentious issue in the modernisation of the state. To build the navy's ships Christian IV brought in master shipwrights from England and Scotland. The organisation of naval ship-building is examined in detail and the design of Danish warships is analysed. The Scot David …
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The Bengal army and the outbreak of the Indian mutiny
This thesis is a study of the Bengal Army from c. 1800 to c. 1870. Its central aim is to explain why the majority of the Bengal Army's native troops mutinied in 1857. It begins by comparing the pre-mutiny trends in the Bengal Army to those in its sister armies of Madras and Bombay: in particular …
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The Shropshire wrought-iron industry c1600-1900: a study of technological change
Wrought-iron manufacture in Shropshire is studied over three centuries, encompassing changes in technology arising from the use of vegetable and subsequently mineral fuel. It describes the charcoal-using forges of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, discussing their rural locations on …
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Masters of difference : Creolization and the Jewish presence in Cabo Verde, 1497-1672
… crucial aspects of the formation of Creole and modern identities.
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Gender, national identity and political agency in eighteenth-century Scotland
… and in doing so offers a contribution to the history of gender and political power.
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"It's street theatre really!" A history of Cotswold Morris Dancing in the twentieth century.
This study investigates the history of Morris Dancing in the twentieth century through written sources detailing the development of the dance, but more importantly, through the oral testimony of some of those dancers who began their dancing careers after the second world war. Three particular …
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British Imperialism, Liverpool, and the American Revolution, 1763-1783
This thesis draws upon evidence from over twenty archives in the UK and US. It uses the context of Liverpool, arguably the ‘second city of empire’ because of its extensive social, economic, and political networks overseas, to enhance knowledge of British imperialism during the American …
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I rest your loving obedient wife: marital relationships in Scotland 1650-1850
… to place patriarchy at the centre of women’s history. The thesis takes up that challenge. Through an exploration of power within marital relationships, this thesis highlights how patriarchy operated to confine and restrict women’s social power. It demonstrates that patriarchy was a system that …
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Politics and society of Glasgow 1680-1740
Abstract available: p. ii.
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'Sick, aged and infirm': adults in the new Birmingham workhouse, 1852-1912
This study has explored the role of a large urban workhouse and its separate infirmary in Birmingham in the provision of indoor medical care for adult paupers between 1852 and 1912. Due to the difficulty in distinguishing between the medical and social care of older people, it has examined the …
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Leisure, War and Marginal Communities: Travelling Showpeople and Outdoor Pleasure-Seeking in Britain 1889-1945.
This thesis investigates the community of nomadic showpeople who provided entertainments and amusements as part of travelling fairs. The primary focus of the thesis is the development of the relationship between this marginal community and local and national authorities between 1889 and 1945. As …
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Concerns of The Self 1800/1900: Freud and The Making of Modern Subjectivity
… would install a tension at the heart of the modern self that radically undermined the liberal conception of the individual as transparent, coherent, and responsible. My conviction is that positioning psychoanalysis within the history of practices of the self, and charting its ‘pre-history’ in …
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Gender, Bolshevism & the Popular Press in Britain, 1916-1921
… of British scholarship pertaining to media history, labour history and gender studies. Apart from Gramsci, this thesis has been influenced by the gendered scholarship of Billie Melman, Nicoletta Gullace, Joane Nagel, the social studies of Ezequiel Adamovsky and Klaus Theweleit and the media …