The internal dynamics of Gaullism, 1958-1969 by Watson, J

“…Many of those who have written about Gaullism - historians, political scientists, journalists and politicians alike - have tended to focus too narrowly on the personality, beliefs and actions of Charles de Gaulle. …”

Germans or Jews? German-speaking Jews in post-war Europe: an introduction by Čapková, K, Rechter, D

“…<p>Historians have devoted increasing attention in the past decade to the aftermath of the Shoah, focusing in particular on the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the American, British, and French occupation zones of Germany and Austria. …”

Interrogating the World Bank’s role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance by Tichenor, M, Winters, J, Storeng, KT, Bump, J, Gaudillière, J-P, Gorsky, M, Hellowell, M, Kadama, P, Kenny, K, Shawar, YR, Songane, F, Walker, A, Whitacre, R, Asthana, S, Fernandes, G, Stein, F, Sridhar, D

“…<br> <strong>Main body</strong> As a group of historians, social scientists, and public health officials with experience studying the effects of the institution’s investment in health, we identify three challenges to this research. …”

The Encyclopedists as individuals by Kafker, F, Kafker, S

“…They were not a sect of like-minded thinkers, even though contemporaries and later historians believed otherwise. Some of them met at such salons as the baron d’Holbach’s and madame d’Epinay’s or at such learned societies as the Paris Académie royale des sciences or the Académie française; but others did not know each other, and they certainly did not try to co-ordinate policies. …”

The experience of Roman legionary service from Augustus to Septimius Severus by Angell, B

“…The primary group has dominated modern military sociology, leading some ancient historians to apply the concept to the ancient world; I attempt to test the evidence. …”

Performing barbers, surgeons and barber-surgeons in early modern English literature by Decamp, E

“…This study has a wide-ranging literary corpus, including early modern play texts, ballads, pamphlets, guild records, dictionaries, inventories, medical treatises and archaeological material, and contributes to the critical endeavours of the medical humanities, cultural materialists, theatre historians and linguists.…”

Beyond Reaganomics: the long economic crisis and the rebuilding of America, 1974-1988 by Rowe, D

“…Yet a mere four years later, inflation and unemployment rates were falling, the country’s largest industrial corporations were reporting profits, and cities whose decline had once seemed inexorable appeared to be in the midst of a revival. </p> <p>Most historians place the federal government and the cocktail of <em>laissez-faire</em> economic policies known as ‘Reaganomics’ at the center of their narratives when they talk about this period of U.S. history. …”

Elegaic materialism: the poetry and art of Susan Howe by Barbour, S, Susan Barbour

“…If “history is the record of the winners,” as Howe says, then one way of rescuing marginalized perspectives is by regarding manuscripts as drawings, thereby rescuing the concrete particulars deemed irrelevant by editors and historians. As Howe's late work turned increasingly toward elegy, her early aesthetic contributed to a nuanced poetics of personal loss and to a series of astonishing new formal tropes.…”

Irish protestant travel to Europe, 1660-1727 by Ansell, R

“…<p>This thesis examines travel to continental Europe as undertaken by several generations of Irish Protestants between 1660 and 1727. Historians draw parallels between the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland and other polities in <em>ancien régime</em> Europe, but these demand an exploration of contemporary encounters. …”

Representing private lives of the Enlightenment

“…<br/><br/> Andrew Kahn, Introduction: The problem of private life<br/> Sarah Maza, Historians and eighteenth-century private life: an overview<br/> Caroline Warman, Intimate, deprived, uncivilised: Diderot and the publication of the private moment<br/> Olivier Ferret, Inventing private lives: the representation of private lives in French <em>Vies privées</em><br/> Lise Andries, The private life of criminals<br/> Alison Oliver, <em>La Nouvelle Héloïse</em> and Wolmar’s project: transforming passion into ‘familiarité fraternelle’<br/> Larry Wolff, Private life, personal liberty and sexual crime in eighteenth-century Venice: the case of Gaetano Franceschini<br/> Viktor Zhivov, Handling sin in eighteenth-century Russia<br/> Irina Reyfman, Writing, ranks and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experience<br/> Andreas Schönle, Private walks and public gazes: Enlightenment and the use of gardens in eighteenth-century Russia<br/> Mark Ledbury, Embracing and escaping the material: genre painting, objects and private life in eighteenth-century France<br/> Shearer West, Eccentricity and the self: private character in English public portraiture<br/> Adam Sutcliffe, Friendship and materialism in the French Enlightenment<br/> M.O. …”

Shape-shifters: Romantic-era representations of the child in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin family circle by Roy, M

“…The thesis situates these representations of childhood against the backdrop of the Romantic-era cultural celebration of childhood as established in works by historians and critics such as Philippe Ariés and James McGavran, Jr. …”

Getting everybody back on the same team by Harris, H

“…<p>The final chapters examine other means by which management aimed to outflank and undermine unions, and to restore its own power and prestige - methods which .have usually been neglected by business and labour historians alike. The objectives and rationales of personnel administration, 'welfare capitalism' , in-plant propaganda, and public relations are analysed.…”

The logic of the nation: nationalism, formal logic, and interwar Poland by Dunning, DE

“…Competitive nationalist attitudes were common among interwar scientists &#x2013; a stance historians have called &#x201C;Olympic internationalism,&#x201D; in which nationalism and internationalism interacted as complementary rather than conflicting impulses. …”

Regulating the Académie by Benhamou, R

“…<br/> Offering new insights into the tensions between art and state throughout the <em>ancien régime</em> and beyond, <em>Regulating the Académie</em> is an invaluable reference not only for art historians, but also for those working in cultural or legal history. …”

Model presswomen: ‘high-minded’ female journalism in the mid-Victorian era by Pusapati, T

“…Although women's campaigning journalism has attracted some attention, especially from historians of feminism, its role in the professionalization of women writers has gone largely unexamined. …”

Disraeli and Religion by Kearney, M

“…<p>This thesis offers a new understanding of Benjamin Disraeli’s religious thought. Historians remember Disraeli as a mercurial self-fashioner, who adopted various personae throughout his public life. …”

A bioanthropological perspective on the Punic period in Ibiza (Spain) as evidenced by human skeletal remains by Márquez-Grant, N

“…<p>The Punic period (6th - 2nd century BC) in the island of Ibiza (Spain) has been regarded by historians and archaeologists as a time of flourishing economic wealth and prosperity, as evidenced by its coin production, demographic growth, agricultural exploitation, intensive product manufacturing and its overall importance to Punic trading routes.…”

Utopia and civilisation in the Arab Nahda by Hill, P

“…An initial chapter offers a definition of the social classes and groups which contributed to the Nahda in these years – such as the Beiruti bourgeoisie and the Egyptian-Ottoman official class – drawing on the work of Arab Marxists such as Mahd&amp;imacr; '&amp;Amacr;mil and social historians such as Bruce Masters. The following chapters deal in detail with writings produced by three distinct cultural formations within the Nahda movement, and with different aspects of their social imagination. …”

Sarpi, Micanzio and Bedell. A new source for the Anglo-Venetian encounter at Santa Maria dei Servi (1607-1611) by Davies, E

“…The fruitful intellectual exchange that ensued has long been a source of great fascination to historians. However, one intriguing document – a short treatise on Christian doctrine, written by Bedell just after he returned from Venice – has not been discussed in any previous scholarship. …”

Anticommunism in French society and politics, 1945-1953 by Clift, A

“…<p>This thesis examines the role of anticommunism in French politics and society from the end of the Second World War to 1953. While previous historians have analysed anticommunism among politicians and intellectuals, few have addressed its wider social ramifications. …”