Faculty of History

My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia

Mako, Gerald (2019-07-20)

As of 2018 the Russian Federation is home to 185 registered ethnic groups, ranging in size from 5.3 million of the Volga Tatars to the merely 64 people of the Votes. Many of them are adherents to religions other than ...
The conduct and practice of diplomacy during the reign of Edward IV (1461-1483)

Meek, Edward Lewis (2001-10-09)

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how English diplomacy was conducted during the reign of Edward IV (1461-1483), by examining the personnel of Yorkist diplomacy (including ambassadors, agents, spies and ...
A Microhistory of Migrants and Their Identifications in a Paris Tenement (1882-1932)

Langrognet, Fabrice (2019-07-20)

This dissertation offers a micro-analysis of migration from a social and a cultural perspective. It is premised on the conviction that the micro scale can be of great value to avoid, or at least control for, the perils of ...
Anglo-Habsburg Relations in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-14

Hitchings, Philip Richard (2019-01-09)

This thesis considers the relationship between the British polity and the Habsburg dynasty in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). During this conflict, the government of Queen Anne (r. 1702-14) engaged with the ...