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Conflict, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Postcolonial African Regional Order, 1957-1963
(2020-09-29)This thesis is a work of International History and an investigation of the birth of inter-African relations from Ghana’s Independence in March 1957 to the establishment in May 1963 of Africa’s first and wholly owned political ... -
Sodomy and human difference: Anglophone conceptualisations of Ottoman male same-sex activity, c.1590–1700.
This dissertation focuses on the ideas of sodomy and human difference in early modern Anglophone discourses. The purpose of my thesis is to historicise and to complicate our understandings of Anglophone conceptions of ... -
Arbitration in English law and society before the Act of 1698
The practice of arbitration in seventeenth-century England has not been the subject of close study. Whilst it is recognised that arbitration was a frequent and favoured means to resolve disputes during this period, previous ... -
Theories of the mind and the disciplining of anthropology, c.1875-1914
This thesis revises key assumptions concerning the organisation of knowledge into social science disciplines at the turn of the twentieth century, taking anthropology as its main case study. Historians of anthropology have ...
