Theses - History
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The Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, unemployment welfare and industrial conflict in post-war Italy, 1941-1987
(2019-07-15)This PhD thesis tracks the history of the Italian unemployment welfare during the second half of the twentieth century, offering an account of why the Italian system of social security never established a universal safety ... -
Sind and the partition of India, c.1927-1952
(2019-03-23)Sindhi Hindus comprise the world’s most widespread South Asian diaspora. When the British divided their Indian empire in 1947, unlike Punjab, Bengal, and Assam, they did not partition Sind (today a part of Pakistan), despite ... -
Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
(2019-04-27)This thesis investigates the economic accountability of women in eighteenth-century England, particularly within the informal credit market. In the past few decades, substantial scholarship has demonstrated women’s regular ... -
Improvement and environmental conflict in the northern fens, 1560-1665
(2019-04-27)This thesis examines ‘improvement’ of wetland commons in early modern England as a contested process of rapid environmental change. As a flagship project of agrarian improvement, drainage sought to alchemise pastoral fen ...
