History: Recent submissions
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Parliament and Community: Theory and Practice in the Insular World, c.1399-c.1460
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis presents a comparative study of the communitarian language and ideas which underpinned parliamentary institutions in English Ireland and Scotland from c.1399 - c.1460. Recent years have seen a proliferation of ... -
The State in the Swamps: Territorialization and Ecosystem Engineering in the Western Provinces of the Late Russian Empire
(2019)This article argues for the integration of environmental perspectives into historical studies of territorialization. Using the case of the Western Expedition for the Drainage of Marshlands in Polesia (1873-1902), it shows ... -
Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China
(2018)According to Chinese government estimates, 10,000 children are trafficked in China every year. Johanna Ransmeier’s meticulous and highly engaging study of the trade in people in the late Qing and Republican periods provides ... -
The Soviet Village Revisited: Household Farming and the Changing Image of Socialism in the Late Soviet Period
(2016)The recognition of family farms and agricultural cooperatives as catalysts for agricultural recovery during the perestroika years went along with the rediscovery of the world-famous theoretician of the peasant farm Aleksandr ... -
The book trade and print culture : a comparative analysis of Belfast and Baltimore 1760-1825
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)This project offers a wide-ranging analysis and comparison of the cultures of print in Belfast and Baltimore between 1760 and 1825. Each city and its hinterland have been examined individually and comparatively in order ... -
Culture, politics and the struggle for mastery in Ireland c.1452-1540
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)The fall of the Kildare Geraldines in 1534 has traditionally been seen as the hinge of late medieval and early modern Irish history. In comprehending this period, the collection of documents published in the 1830s as the ... -
Coming to Terms With the Village: Stalin's Death and the Reassessment of Rural-Urban Relations in the Soviet Union
(2017)In August 1953, the Soviet writer Tikhon Semushkin was sent by Pravda to the countryside to report on the current state of the kolkhoz village. In this article, we use Semushkin’s unpublished travel diaries to study elite ... -
Calvin and humanism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)Calvin and humanism is an extensive and controversial topic the treatment of which depends to a considerable extent on the type of approach and method adopted. The introduction provides an overview of the special difficulties ... -
Rendering to God and Caesar' : the Irish Churches and the two states in Ireland, 1949-73
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)This study focuses on the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, as all-Ireland organizations, in the period 1949 to 1973. It examines the following interrelated questions: what was the impact of the political ... -
Divorce and civil society during the French Revolution, 1789-1802
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)The aim of this thesis is to examine the complex interplay between revolutionary society, culture, and politics through an analysis of the revolutionary divorce law introduced in September 1792. The thesis shall examine ... -
Inventing fascism : Benito Mussolini and the Great War 1914-1919
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)The thesis analyses the writings and speeches of Benito Mussolini in the First World War and in the winter and spring following the armistice. It seeks to locate Mussolini's position in relation to the State's reluctance ... -
The bishops of the Archdiocese of York, c.1200-c.1250
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)This thesis is a prosopographical study of the prelates of the Archdiocese of York c. 1200-c. 1250. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it seeks to portray the careers of Waiter de Gray, archbishop ... -
Walk according to the Gospel order' : theology and discipline in the Quaker meeting system, 1650-1700
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)The aim of this thesis is to examine how epistles and testimonies sent between Quaker meetings in England and Ireland shaped their religious identity and ensured discipline in their communities. The thesis consists of an ... -
The 'philosophia Christi' of Erasmus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2001)The object of this thesis is to demonstrate that underlying all of Erasmus' diverse writing was his own distinctive, consistent and coherent concept of Christianity. He called this the philosophia Christi. The two main ... -
Inventing the commercial consumer : an historical study of Books I and II of David Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2001)The aim of the thesis is to present a contextualised interpretation of David Hume’s theory of the individual in Books I and II of A Treatise of Human Nature. The Introduction (Chapter 1) argues that insufficient attention ... -
The sources and themes of the Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny : reform and the Investiture Contest in Lotharingia and Burgundy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)This thesis is a study of the sources and themes of the late-eleventh century chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny, based on the printed edition of the Chronicon in the Scriptores series of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and ... -
The IRA under Moss Twomey 1926-1936
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)This thesis is an examination of the Irish Republican Army in the post revolutionary era. Despite its defeat in the Civil War the IRA could still count its membership in several thousand by the late 1920s. It remained a ... -
Neither one thing nor the other : The Ulster Protestant community in Cavan, Monaghan and Fermanagh, 1916 - 1923
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)Histories of Irish partition and discussions of the Irish border portray the six-county settlement as the most natural division of the island. This formulation provides a false impression of a cohesive Ulster Protestant ... -
Consuming Behaviours Ireland 1922-1960
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis addresses consuming behaviours in Ireland 1922-1960. Few works have previously addressed the history of consumption in twentieth century Ireland, and this work aims to redress this lacuna. Consuming behaviours ... -
Teaching the nation's past: Irish history in secondary schools, 1924-1969
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis considers the teaching of Irish history in Irish secondary schools post-Independence. It analyses the version(s) of the past set for study, taught in schools, and learned by students in the Irish Free State and ...
