During the Second World War, African American soldiers were stationed all over the world as part of the American war effort. During these deployments, African Americans encountered a number of white societies, such as those in Britain and Australia, which they generally interact…
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The Ottoman Empire's entry into the First World War in October 1914 represents a break in over a century of diplomacy in the Middle East. Previous study of late Ottoman politics has focused more upon the European states with imperial interests in the Middle East and has not adeq…
The aim of this research is to expose the longue durée of the bilateral relations of Italy, Britain and to a lesser extent France, with Libya. The historical narrative presented, traces the interests and policies that have governed these bilateral relations back to the year Ital…
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…
Romanization is the process of understanding how Rome culturally expanded beyond military actions. This study seeks to compare how Romanization proceeded in the provinces of Britain and Egypt.
How do journalists determine who receives standing in mass mediated public debates? Previous theories explain the rule: Public officials and other elite stakeholders typically dominate media coverage. But they fail to explain the exception: Non-elite actors such as social moveme…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Early modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, and just as importantly, due to its exceptional religio…
Hizb ut Tahrir (HT) is a rapidly growing trans-national Islamic movement which aims to revive the classical Islamic Caliphate. Consequently, it has come under increasing international focus as a result of its rapid expansion beyond its traditional heartland of the Middle East in…
This research aims to explore the lived experiences of young British Muslims in higher education at the University of Bradford and the implications this has for the construction of their identities. The increased participation of Muslims in higher education has been hailed a maj…
My research explores the tension between being and becoming modern and moral for British-born Muslim Pakistani women in Sheffield through an investigation into the judgements that surround beauty, beautification, and beauty work. Through ethnography I unpack the raced and classe…
This thesis is the study of Great Power nvaliy during 1958-1963, a period of bothincreasing political and economic cooperation in Western Europe and transatlanticrelations within NATO against a background of the Cold War France and Britain are thefocus of our analysis. The two s…
In a period of apparent new economic, political, social and cultural configurations in Western cities, a general diminution of belief in the ability of local government itself to affect significant policy change in response to the global restructuring of the economy has facilita…