This thesis explores the role of Allen Dulles, the Director of the CIA, in the 1953 coup in Iran.

This thesis examines Japanese childhood during the first five years of the American occupation. Focusing on the education system, magazines for children and children’s books, the thesis explores the ways in which children ...

This thesis examines the emergence, practice, and social meaning of intercultural dialogue as participatory programming in museums. While intercultural dialogue takes many forms in museums, the thesis focuses on projects ...

This thesis investigates depictions of Malay-Muslim women in two Malay-language newspapers, contrasting the portrayals on the women’s pages with how women were depicted on the “malestream” leader and religion pages. I ask ...

Sensations can occur in the absence of perception and yet be experienced ‘as if’ seen, heard, tasted, or otherwise perceived. Two concepts used to investigate types of these sensory-like mental phenomena (SLMP) are mental ...

This thesis examines ‘The Publicist: the paper loyal to Australia First’, a monthly newspaper published in Sydney from July 1936 until March 1942 which turned to German National Socialism in its pursuit of an Australian ...

Whilst the concept of gekokujo (low overcoming high) is well documented in the study of medieval Japan it has traditionally been confined to the militarism that characterized the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ...

This thesis presents a history of Melbourne’s Chinatown revitalisation in the 1970s and 1980s from the Chinese perspective. In 1970, with its heritage significance, the City Council and later the State government decided ...

This thesis establishes the Somali piracy epidemic of 2008-12 as a conflict between how Somalis perceived their own sovereign authority and the rules of centralised state norms established by the international community. ...

This cross-disciplinary thesis explores the history of archives and collections description in contemporary museums, with a particular focus on the mid-1960s to the present. As computerisation transformed working practices, ...