Perak Kutai Asli Malay house: form, function and meaning / Anuar Talib by Talib, Anuar

“…Searches on Colonial Records, unpublished research materials, expert views from local historians, village elders and Malay tukang were also sought to provide the historical background and traditional setting of the culture and the beliefs of the Perak Malays that would be imbedded in the design of the oldest surviving KA houses attributed to circa 1820's. …”
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The poetics of subversion and conservatism: popular satire, c.1640 - c.1649 by Faber, BK

“…The thesis applies the work of historians of popular culture to literary forms of popular expression in order to assess the rôle of the satirical pamphlet in Civil War society and politics. …”

The Cult of the legislator in France 1750-1830 by Wisner, D

“…<br/>Historians have long debated the nature of the relationships between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. …”

Indigenous resistance to German rule in the Pacific colonies of Samoa, Ponape and New Guinea, 1884 to 1914 by Hempenstall, P

“…It emphasizes the power and ability of the Pacific Islanders to make their own adjustments - of interest and ideology - to the new culture and its demands and does so through the comparison of three cultural regions within the one historical dimension, a method which Pacific historians have barely exploited at all. It represents the first intensive history of German Ponape in particular, using original documentation, while it opens up totally unexplored areas of that 'forgotten imperialism' which was such a critical phase in the modern histories of the new states of Samoa and New Guinea.…”

Writing (hi)story : Gascony in Jean Froissart’s chroniques by Souleau, P

“…, à mi-chemin between history and fiction, between conflicting yet co-existing perspectives, is precisely what makes Froissart’s <em>Chroniques</em> valuable to literary critics, philologists, and historians alike.</p>…”

Alchemical poetics in seventeenth-century women's writing by Allan, KF

“…</p> <p>Over the course of this thesis, I present the ‘alchemical poetics’ of Lanyer, Pulter, Philips, and Cavendish as creatively engaging with, and rethinking, a wide range of alchemical authors and ideas in ways that have hitherto been underappreciated by literary critics as well as historians of science. In this regard, my thesis integrates recent shifts in the history of science and the role of women, but also fruitfully extends them into new and exciting territory. …”

Construction of national identities in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine in Soviet historiography (1936-1953) by Yilmaz, S, Harun Yilmaz

“…The timeline starts with Zhdanov’s commission in 1936, which summoned historians and ideologues of the Communist Party in Moscow to write an all-Union history because a parallel campaign of writing national histories had been initialized by the local communist parties. …”

A world from nowhere: nineteenth-century expert politics and the technocratic international by Eijking, J

“…<p>The long nineteenth century witnessed both the entrance of “international” into the modern political vocabulary, and the rise of expert-centred international practices and institutions. Historians of international relations have thus far not investigated the connection between these two developments. …”

'Divine Thalie': the career of Jeanne Quinault by Curtis, J

“…<br/> Jeanne Quinault’s role as organizer of the <em>société badine</em>, called the Bout-du-Banc, is what has attracted the most interest, but historians have not generally recognized in her a salonnière as devoted to benevolence and mentorship as her wealthier and better-born contemporaries. …”

Courtship and courtliness by Bates, C, Catherine Bates

“…The amorous sense of the word developed from a purely social sense in most major European languages around the turn of the sixteenth century, a time when, according to some historians, Western states were gradually moving toward the genesis of absolutism and the establishment of courts as symbols and agents of centralised monarchical power. …”

Codicological evidence of reading in late medieval England, with particular reference to practical pastoral verse by Sawyer, D

“…Scholarship has established major twelfth- and thirteenth-century changes in reading, and linked these changes to manuscripts containing the modern Middle English verse canon. Historians of early modern reading have also argued for distinctive changes in their own period. …”

Gender, property and household in provincial English parish government, c. 1540-1660 by Blackwood, A

“…And yet, women wielded direct authority on the local level in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at a scale not seen in the periods before or after. While historians have long recognised that early modern parishes occasionally elected female officers, this thesis is the first full-length study of female office-holding in the rural parish. …”

Can courage be a modern virtue? Seeking insight in Tocqueville, Mill, and Arendt by Berg, R

“…This thesis puts forward the suggestion that courage is one of the most important modern political virtues and one ripe for rediscovery by political theorists and historians of political thought alike. Following the Ancient Greeks, the dissertation defines courage as the virtue which aids us in the proper assessment of threats and, where appropriate, the overcoming of fear in the service of causes we deem worthy, while emphasizing the contexts in which it is deployed. …”

The role of clothing and fashion in the household budget and popular culture, Britain, 1919-1949 by Robson, J, Robson, Jennifer Margaret

“…Of particular importance is the role of clothing in the household budget, a subject which has received limited attention from social historians. In households with limited incomes, finding the means to purchase clothing was problematic, and women often resorted to unconventional methods of saving and spending. …”

Intercessory prayer and the Carolingian monastic ideal, c. 750-820 by Choy, R

“…<p>The establishment of a new concept of intercessory prayer, from an activity sought of the individual holy man to an occupation characterizing an entire monastic community, has recently received much attention; historians have shown that the function of intercession had become, by the Carolingian period, <em>the</em> pre-eminent feature of early medieval monasticism. …”

The popularity and influence of Spohr in England by Brown, C

“…<p>The popularity and influence of Louis Spohr have been misunderstood or ignored by musical historians of the present century. In a few cases there has been an uneasy recognition that he occupied a more prominent position in the eyes of contemporaries than the current neglect of his music might suggest, but no modern scholar has attempted a detailed examination of the attitudes which obtained towards him during his lifetime or an adequate investigation of the elements of his style and its influence on other composers. …”

Wise as a serpent, gentle as a dove: Bruno of Toul and the Making of Pope Leo IX by McDole, IP

“…He has been characterised as a reforming pope and is credited as the precursor to the Gregorian Reforms of the later eleventh century. While many historians have examined Leo IX’s pontificate, little scholarship, especially in English, treats Bruno’s early life and career as bishop of Toul. …”

Visual recognition in art using machine learning by Crowley, E

“…Solving this problem is extremely beneficial to art historians, who are often interested in determining when an object first appeared in a painting or how the portrayal of an object has evolved over time. …”

Status of female convicts under British colonial rule (Penal Settlement) in Andaman-India: An analysis by Biswas, Swapan Kumar

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History of moneylending during British era: A case study of Chettiars as the major money lenders by Suppiah, Ummadevi

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