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In the wake of urban riots and terror attacks in the United Kingdom, British public debate and policy have focused on the nation's immigrant communities. These debates have commonly called into question whether immigrant communities in Britain are sufficiently integrated into "m…

In the post-9/11 era, over a hundred theatric performances exploring the fallout from the “war on terror” have been staged in Cairo, London, and New York. Though never discussed in relation to one another, the works from major cultural centers on three continents provide valuabl…

Headlong he runs into Circe's snares: Representation and the Restoration Royal Mistress is an interdisciplinary study of the Restoration royal mistress. During the Restoration and for generations thereafter, the mistresses of Charles II (reigned 1660-1685) came to symbolize the …

This dissertation develops and defends a social ethic focused on the education of children. The account proposes two key normative notions: dialogic identity with respect to the moral goal; and consociational democracy with respect to the surrounding political structure. Chapter…

With numerous contributions to geography and literature, Sir Richard Burton is a major Victorian figure. Burton's main importance to his age lies in the fact that he was one of the premier imperial communicators of his time, disseminating numerous aspects of indigenous societies…

This paper is an in-depth study of the visual culture of the court of King Edgar (959–975) and the construction of kingship and queenship during this period in relationship to the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon reform movement and the emergence of England as a unified nation. I begin…

In the Eastern crisis, Government and Opposition pursued rival doctrines of what constituted a great state. In particular, Disraelian imperialism contested the Gladstonian notion of Christian nationalism. Were it not for the prevalence of anti-Turk feeling in Britain, Disraeli w…

This dissertation offers a comprehensive analysis of the events and circumstances that shaped the foreign policy of Henry VII in the first years of his reign, and revises, in particular, the views of R. B. Wernham, who credited Henry VII with initiating the standard foreign poli…

This study is concerned with the comparison of "learning to teach' studies in teacher training programmes in Turkey and England with special reference to using active learning approaches and stage theories. It aims to realise the following two main objectives in terms of trainin…

This thesis seeks to account for the enduring and wide spread appeal of Floripas, the unconventional Saracen heroine of the enormously popular twelfth-century French poem Fierabras and its many adaptations and translations. It concludes that the parodic nature of much of the tex…

This dissertation examines two works of Robert Grosseteste (c. 1169–1253), his astronomical textbook, the De spera, and his computistical work, the Compotus correctorius. Through the use of a technique labelled exposition, the texts are presented to the reader through a means th…

Walking is a critical dynamic practice that has largely been overlooked in archaeological studies. There has been a tendency to focus on static places as the loci for activity rather than on the movement that infuses life into those places. This study seeks to move beyond this b…

This thesis poses a singular but challenging question for comparative history. Why did two pre-industrial economies, faced with the same level of depopulation from the Black Death, respond so differently to the same external shock? While England recovered, Egypt collapsed. Focus…

In a time of multiplying histories and changing perceptions of geography, my dissertation looks to revise prevailing conceptions of medieval space. It does so by challenging the consensus view that medieval maps of the world, or mappaemundi, have primarily a 'theological functio…

This dissertation focuses on the early modern travel writer and courtly hanger-on Thomas Coryate in order to investigate a series of linked issues in the study of early modern English culture. The study begins with a biographical discussion of Coryate's life as an example of the…

The City and the Word examines how early modern writers depicted London in the guise of various iterations of Jerusalem and thereby shaped their readers as subjects of a uniquely privileged nation. I argue that discursive parallels between these two capital cities contributed to…

It has become almost a commonplace to argue for a limit-point in any attempt to bear witness to the Holocaust. That point is the reality of the Holocaust itself--i.e., "the way it was." Though this claim is clearly of relevance to various artistic forms that would represent it, …

This dissertation traces Berkeley's career to examine the navy's role in the Peninsular war. The thesis is that naval power was vital to Wellington's successful prosecution of the war; he could not have won without the navy maintaining his lines of communication and blockading t…

The goal of this study was to determine whether sensation seeking, cultural orientation and message stimulus influence the outcomes of fear appeal messages. This study was an effort to understand how the personality trait of sensation seeking, the cultural dimension of individua…

In the nineteenth century, geophysics and empire building developed in tandem. As a result, empirical science could utilize the imperial structure to conduct research on a worldwide scale. Scientific motives for such studies included the need to confront both weaknesses in the i…