Browsing by Subject "Britain"
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(2019-06-07)Department: HistoryThis dissertation reveals how the importation of South Asian artworks, antiquities, religious images, and other items were central to British understandings of the subcontinent and of British national character. This study ...
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(2008-04-07)Department: ReligionRELIGION NATURAL THEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY IN DARWIN’S TIME: DESIGN, DIRECTION, SUPERINTENDENCE AND UNIFORMITY IN BRITISH THOUGHT, 1818-1876 BOYD BARNES Dissertation under the direction of Professor Dale A. ...
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The angel paradox: Elizabeth Fry and the role of gender and religion in nineteenth-century Britain (2013-04-15)Department: HistoryThis dissertation analyzes intersections of religion, gender, and public policy in nineteenth-century Britain through the life of Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), a Quaker minister and prison reform activist who founded the ...
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(2015-04-14)Department: HistoryThe othering of Welsh persons was a recurrent feature of English “home tour” travelogues throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet, in the eighteenth-century English popular imaginary, the Welsh landscape ...