Theses - History
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Of Molluscs and Men: Pearling Labour and Environments in the Indian Ocean 1880-1925
This dissertation studies three pearl fisheries in the northern Indian Ocean – the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Mannar, and the Mergui Archipelago – at the height of the global pearl boom in the late nineteenth and early ... -
Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
This doctoral dissertation explores the interplay between private and public collections of Renaissance decorative art in Britain 1850-1914, to establish the role that emerging networks of collectors, curators and dealers ... -
Museums, Connections, and Imagination in the Making of a British World, 1870-1945
This dissertation examines how settlers came to terms with the landscape and the peoples in the areas in which they were based, from the last third of the nineteenth century to 1945. Focusing on museums and art galleries ... -
Performing American Identity in Great Britain, 1880-1914.
This thesis explores the experiences and uses of transatlantic mobility and exhibition in Britain by a variety of Americans in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It emphasizes how this travel and work prompted Americans ...
