Honours theses: Recent submissions
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The 'S' Word: The Spectre of Syphilis within Middle-Class Marriage in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Published 2009-01-01The years between 1870 and 1914 witnessed profound shifts in the medical understanding of, social responses to, and cultural representations of syphilis and its sufferers. Prostitutes had traditionally been recognised as ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Defining the 'Strano': Madness in Renaissance Italy
Published 2009-01-01This thesis explores the different ways madness was defined and treated in Italian texts from the early fifteenth century through to the late sixteenth century. Although this thesis investigates how and why people were ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Internationalist Vision for a Postwar World: H. V. Evatt, Politics and the Law
Published 2008-01-01Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs in the postwar period (1941 – 1949), has been labelled by his contemporaries, biographers and historians as an internationalist. He is most often associated with playing a ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Contesting Corporal Punishment: Abolitionism, Transportation and the British Imperial Project
Published 2008-01-01Between the 1820s and the 1840s, anti-slavery ideas shaped debate about the treatment of convicts in the Australian penal colonies. This thesis investigates the impact of abolitionism on one key aspect of convict life: the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Women, Work and 'Civilised' White Australia: Assessing Responses to Women in Factory and Sweated Labour
Published 2008-01-01The thesis deals with a moment in 1911 when there was an intense interest in women undertaking allegedly ‘problematic; factory and sweated labour. The thesis analyses these responses and illustrates that they were informed ...Open AccessThesis, Honours