Browsing by Subject "History, European"
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Compiling Inequalities: Computerization in the British Civil Service and Nationalized Industries, 1940-1979
(2009)In the 1950s and early 1960s, Great Britain's computing industry led the world in the development and application of computers for business and administrative work. The British government and civil service, paragons ... -
Forms of Empire: Law, Violence, and the Poetics of Victorian Power
(2009)Victorian England was the first empire in history to imagine itself as liberal, believing that its own power could bring law to the darkest and most unruly corners of the world. But despite covering nearly the entire period ... -
Modernity, Sanitation and the Public Bath: Berlin, 1896-1933, as Archetype
(2007-12-14)This dissertation documents and analyzes the architecture of the working-class bathhouse - its emergence in the nineteenth-century and revision and continued elaboration in the twentieth. It is a case study that examines ... -
Mother, Matron, Matriarch: Sanctity and Social Change in the Cult of St. Anne, 1450-1750
(2009)As a saint with no biblical or historical basis for her legend, St. Anne could change radically over time with cultural and doctrinal shifts even as her status as Mary's mother remained at the core of her legend and provided ... -
O du mein Österreich: Patriotic Music and Multinational Identity in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
(2009)As a multinational state with a population that spoke eleven different languages, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was considered an anachronism during the age of heightened nationalism leading up to the First World War. This ... -
"Three and a Half Men": the Bülow-Hammann System of Public Relations before the First World War
(2009)This dissertation analyzes the history of the press bureau of the German Foreign Office before the First World War. Methodologically, the work tries to locate European international history in a larger political, intellectual, ...
