Theses - History
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Wittgenstein and his students, 1912-1968
(2020-04-24)This thesis is the first study of twentieth-century Cambridge Moral Sciences students’ elaboration of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s approach to doing philosophy. It serves foremost as a contribution to the history of British culture ... -
Political Civil Servants and the Practice of Administration under National Socialism
(2020-06-01)This dissertation explores how and why senior ministerial bureaucrats assisted the Nazi regime in pursuit of its ever-radicalising ideological agenda by examining both the practice of administration under National Socialism ... -
Masculinity, Arms and Armour, and the Culture of Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Florence
(2020-03-21)My thesis investigates the cultural role of arms and armour in Cinquecento Florence, roughly spanning the reigns of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his two sons Francesco I and Ferdinando I, 1537-1609. My study primarily draws ... -
The Origins of the Vietnam War from the East- and West German Perspective, 1960-1965
(2020-07-29)This dissertation is the first analytical account of both the East- and West German perspective of the Vietnam War during the spring of 1960 and military escalation in the summer of 1965. By examining the GDR’s and FRG’s ...
