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Lorenz Stein and German Socialism 1835-1872
(2015-03-21)This thesis traces the intellectual trajectory of Lorenz Stein (1815-1890), a German legal scholar and political thinker who, despite being a significant theorist during his lifetime, is an obscure figure today, especially ... -
Renaissance humanism in England, c.1490-c.1530
(2019-04-27)This dissertation explores humanism, the rediscovery of the culture of ancient Greece and Rome, in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England. It does so with reference to texts, institutional settings, and networks ... -
The structure and development of commercial gardening businesses in Fulham and Hammersmith, Middlesex, c. 1680-1861..
(2018-10-20)This dissertation responds to Joan Thirsk’s call for historians to undertake a closer investigation of commercial gardening. It adopts a micro-historical approach, to address two questions, ‘What was a gardener?’, and ‘What ... -
Social Authority and the Urban Environment in Nineteenth Century Cork
(2018-10-20)The history of nineteenth-century Ireland has traditionally been understood in terms of resistance to state coercion imposed ‘at the point of a bayonet’. This thesis offers an alternative approach by shifting focus away ...
