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Ludwig Zinzendorf's political economy in the Habsburg monarchy, 1750-1774
(2018-10-20)This study examines Ludwig Zinzendorf’s political economy and the intellectual inspiration of his thinking. Zinzendorf, a protégé of Kaunitz, was a sophisticated economic thinker in the mid eighteenth-century Habsburg ... -
TCBH Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2017 The ‘Progress of a Slogan’: Youth, Culture, and the Shaping of Everyday Political Languages in Late 1940s Britain
(OUP, 2018-04-17)In 1948, worried that young people would take full employment and the welfare state for granted, the Labour Party trialled a new slogan: ‘Ask your Dad’. This slogan encouraged the young to learn about the hardships which ... -
Touchscreen Assessment of Motivation and Reinforcement-Related Choice Behaviour in Mice
(2018-11-14)This dissertation describes the development and optimisation of a set of touchscreen tasks for the assessment of motivation and reinforcement processes in mice. Changes in motivational state and reinforcement sensitivity ... -
Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century British Empire
(2018-07-20)This thesis presents a comparative analysis of the operation and significance of elections in the British colonies of Jamaica, New South Wales and the Cape, from 1849-1860, with a particular focus on the creation and ...
