This thesis examines the process of history and collective memory formation in Morocco by contrasting the narratives of its violent past from two ‘truth-telling’ projects: the official truth and reconciliation commission ...

Annual measures of democracy are one of the most important tools used by scholars in understanding democratic quality in a cross-national manner. This thesis argues that there are limitations with existing measures of ...

This research presents a case for the extension of existing analyses of Australian psychiatric scandals beyond the conclusion that such events are an inherent feature of the profession by virtue of its failure to resolve ...

The Cyrus Cylinder is a spindle-shaped clay inscription created and buried more than 2,550 years ago under commission of Cyrus the Great after capturing the great city of Babylon. The Cylinder is internationally celebrated ...

Standard theories in philosophy of language tend to endorse three claims: 1. Representationalist notions such as truth and reference are semantic primitives; 2. Sentence level meaning is propositional; 3. The meaning ...

In the history of modern China, science has too often been trapped in a Whig interpretation of the past in accordance with the metanarratives of modernisation and industrialisation. Seeking to escape this trap, this thesis ...

My thesis on Reid demonstrates that new perspectives on the path to federation can be revealed when it is contextualised within its contemporary political environment. When the result of the first formal attempt at federating ...

This thesis examines three English-language discourses on the relationship between Buddhism and the state in Burma: its core focus is a postcolonial narrative produced largely by Burmese lay Buddhists writing in English, ...

On behalf of the Australian nation and through the direction of the Australian Government, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) effects the provision of peacekeeping and peace enforcement activities, missions of diplomacy, ...

This thesis examines the impact of colonial occupation and its demise on the life of an Algerian Colonial Soldier: The Bachaga Boualam. Drawing on a vast array of primary sources including books written by Boualam, documents ...