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 ...

Contrary to popular belief, the European Union has always cared deeply about public opinion. However, the EU’s longer history of interaction with the public and bottom-up engagement by civil society actors remains neglected. ...

This study investigates four early modern English men - two astrologer-physicians and two male witches - and the various, often contradictory ways in which they expressed their masculinity by applying R. W. Connell’s theory ...

This thesis examines how the Frisian Nassau-Dietz family constructed a dynastic identity in its seventeenth-century funerary culture. The funerals of four family members (Ernst Casimir, Hendrik Casimir, Sophia Hedwig, and ...

The symbolical and physical authority formation of the senatorial aristocratic families of Rome - under the Theodosian dynasty (379-455 CE) is explored in this thesis. It aims to move beyond the institutional history of ...

This thesis attempts to understand the educational presence of foreign royal children at the Julio-Claudian court in relation to the much larger process of empire formation. By approaching the court as a contact zone, it ...

The rags-to-riches paradigm has played an important role in describing immigrant experience in nineteenth-century America and focuses on the immigrant’s development from poverty to wealth. Due to a conflation of Irish ...

Using theories on the politics of humour from within a recently emerged critical tradition of humour research in combination with theories on the politics of imaging and ‘othering’, this thesis consists of an analysis of ...