Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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A “Foreign” Country? Australia and Britain at Empire’s End.
Published 2011-01-01This thesis explores the process by which Australia came to view Britain as a “foreign” country. Firstly, it examines the introduction of the 1962 United Kingdom Commonwealth Immigrants Act, and the implications that this ...Open AccessThesis -
THE WORD OF A GENTLEMAN AND THE OATH OF A PATRIOT: Military Parole in the American Civil War
Published 2011-01-01The use and eventual demise of military parole in the American Civil War provides a key insight into the changing nature of ‘military honour’ in America’s bloodiest conflict. This thesis will use parole to examine America’s ...Open AccessThesis -
Poetry and the Rise of the Renaissance Artist: An investigation into the interdisciplinary nature of the Renaissance
Published 2011-01-01This thesis investigates the role poetry played in the rise of the Renaissance artist. It argues that the poetic technique ekphrasis influenced the theoretical writings of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) and became the ...Open AccessThesis -
The Munich Massacre: A New History
Published 2011-01-01This thesis examines the Nixon administration’s response to the Munich Massacre; a terrorist attack which took place at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. By examining the contextual considerations influencing the ...Open AccessThesis -
‘All sorts and conditions of men’: Beckett’s Budget, masculinity and sensational working-class journalism in inter-war Australia
Published 2011-01-01This thesis closely analyses John Sleeman’s sensational newspaper Beckett’s Budget, a notorious commercial and political publication in Sydney’s inter-war press market. It considers the paper’s role in working-class, ...Open AccessThesis