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From the late eighteenth century until the 1920s, one of the preeminent international issues in Europe was the so-called "Eastern Question," a term that refers to the events and dynamics related to the decline of the Ottoman Empire's political and economic power. European states…

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania altered the United State’s counter terrorism strategy. After having debated terrorism policy with little resolution following the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1983, the Go…

A centennial calls for reflection and reinterpretation. In the 100 th year since the tragedy that was World War I, the event continues to reveal itself one worthy of new angles and elucidation. Indeed, that is the aim of this work. Although much has been written on the legion of…

Scholars have debated the nature and causes of nationalism in interwar Iraq since the end of the Second World War, with varying conclusions. One new school of thought presents a link between Nazi fascism and anti-Semitism and Iraqi nationalism. This thesis examines diplomatic, p…

The purpose of this thesis is to identify some of the contributions made by members and associates of the British Levant Company to the discourse about Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Britain between 1581 and 1774. The members of the Levant Company were brought to the lands of t…

The long nineteenth century was characterized by advances in medical, biological and technological knowledge that often complicated definitions of human life and blurred the lines between life and death. These changes impacted both beliefs and practices surrounding the human bod…

It has been suggested by the media and scholars alike that social media might be a potential solution for problems of political participation. To test this hypothesis, this thesis examines the content of political participation by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) as reflected…

The Venerable Bede (673–735) was an Anglian priest-monk who appreciated the human condition as a multifaceted reality; and it was the fullness of his appropriation of Christianity that enabled him to admire many types of saint and to project salvific harmony upon Britain. Analys…

What is behind the spread and popularity of gamelan performance outside Indonesia? This dissertation attempts to answer this question through considering the development of one type of gamelan, Central Javanese, in one region (Britain). The answer involves locating gamelan perfo…

In eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, sailors occupied a paradoxical place in the national imagination. They were idealized as the heroic defenders of the nation, yet they were also stigmatized as brutish, misanthropic, and promiscuous. Naval officers described th…

The study of the League of Nations Mandates System is not frequently explored in the historiography of international history and the history of imperialism. The framers of the League of Nations Covenant created it to supervise the governance of the German colonies and Ottoman te…

This study explores social representations of Islam in the West, with the empirical inquiry focused on Britain. Drawing on Said's critique of Orientalism, treated as a Western representation of Islam, the author establishes a clear distinction between Islam and its representatio…

This dissertation examines how Britain's efforts to preserve London's role as one of the world's preeminent financial centers after World War II significantly influenced its relations with countries and companies involved in the production, transportation, and marketing of Middl…

By the end of the First World War the Ottoman Empire had been defeated and was in a state of disintegration. The Mudros Armistice which ended the war between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies in October 1918 was the final stage of this process; the Treaty of Sevres which followe…

When and whether immigrants can become citizens, or gain acceptance as members of the societies in which they settle, is a matter of intensifying political controversy in many countries. Yet, our understanding of citizenship and the theoretical stakes of current controversies is…

This thesis examines the employment of elite military forces in low-intensity and counter-terrorist operations, and in particular, placing the principal emphasis on the aspect of international co-operation in the latter. The experiences of Great Britain and the United States in …

The theory of the firm and transaction cost analysis provide the starting point of this institutional study of business co-operation in the aftermath of World War Two. It is suggested that the market is an institution which is subject to the visible hand of business. The aim of …

This dissertation addresses subdivision development, especially in terms of the role it plays in adding land to urban areas in the United States, and how this process compares to examples from foreign countries--specifically Great Britain and Saudi Arabia. In the United States, …

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