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Children's Convalescent Home, 1845-1970
(2019-11-30)From the middle of the nineteenth century a new type of health care institution, the children's convalescent home, began to provide care to sick children. Institutional convalescence quickly became an established part of ... -
Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
(2019-11-30)This thesis focuses on the foreign seamen who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815). It is a transnational social history of eighteenth-century state power, warfare, and ... -
The Politics of History and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
(2019-11-30)This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the ‘Prussia-Renaissance’ in the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It explores the cultural and political reasons why the official ... -
The Vertical Globe: Altitude and Science in the Exploration of the Himalaya, 1800-1850
(2019-11-30)In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Himalaya were finally being recognised as the highest mountains on the globe. Simultaneously, they were becoming the insecure northern frontier of the East India Company’s ...
