This thesis does not discard opinion polls as an inferior aspect of political communication, but historically studies how the appropriation of electoral research by broadcasters has influenced notions of political ...

This thesis explores the historical development and current appropriation of a war-related site in Japan—the Noborito Institute—that was connected to Japan's aggression during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). It illustrates ...

This thesis seeks to analyse the differences and similarities between early twentieth-century comparisons between the British and Roman empires and between comparisons between America and Rome that were drawn during the ...

In the first century BCE, the city states of Greece were involved in Rome’s foreign and civil wars. These wars brought about a crisis for these communities which culminated in the incorporation of Greece into the Roman ...

This thesis considers the question of how the missionary civilising project is manifested in the photography of children of the Marind tribe on the south coast of Dutch New Guinea by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart ...

Gelderland lijkt tegenwoordig geen provinciale identiteit te hebben. Hoe zat dat vroeger? In de negentiende eeuw, de tijd waarin discussies over regionale en nationale identiteit alomtegenwoordig waren, produceerden ...

The subject of this thesis is papal propaganda during the Renaissance. The focus here is on moments of severe crisis, when rhetoric of papal supremacy was insufficient and new solutions had to be adopted to safeguard the ...

The early-twentieth century German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first and most influential theorisers of ‘deviant’ sexual behaviours and identities. In his eyes, sexual variety was both natural ...

The debate on patterns of residential segregation in pre-modern cities is undeniably related to the debate on the development of economic inequality, but they are barely discussed in relation to one another. This thesis ...

History is written by the victors, and can as such be highly selective. Victory-narratives are hardly ever favourably disposed towards former opponents, leaving behind a trail of figures that have been cast aside for the ...