History: Recent submissions
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Corruption in Evidence: Policing Starting- Price Betting in 1930s NSW
Published 2013-01-01This thesis analyses two Royal Commissions into the policing of SP bookmaking that the NSW government issued in 1936 and 1937. These Commissions provide a window into the social history of betting and policing, as well ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Megalomania of the National Deal: Edvard Beneš and the origins of the postwar expulsion of the Sudeten Germans, 1918-1945.
Published 2013-01-01The expulsion of the German populations of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War was among the largest and most brutal forced migrations in human history. It is also one of the least understood. By focusing ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The International Criminal Court: Mapping the Politics of Myth Construction on the "Road to Rome"
Published 2013-01-01This thesis investigates the reasons why it took seventy-four years for the International Criminal Court to be officially established in Rome in 1998 after the idea for the Court was first mooted in 1924. It is argued that ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A New Faith? Rights Agitation, National Aspirations and Self-Determination in the Soviet Periphery, 1965-1985
Published 2013-01-01This thesis investigates the intersection of human rights-talk, national aspirations and their respective origins on the peripheries of the Soviet Empire, 1965-1985. In particular, it challenges the so-called ‘Helsinki ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Achieving Justice and Seeking Truth: The Evolution of International Criminal Tribunals
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the way in which international criminal tribunals have changed and evolved over time, using the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...Open AccessThesis, Honours