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Anti-Revolutionary conspiracy theory in the age of the French Revolution : a historical context
(Bilkent University, 2004)The thesis deals with those conspiracy theories about the origins of the French Revolution, which were influential in Britain in the period of the French Revolutionary Wars at the end of the eighteenth century. It focuses ... -
British philosophical history and the empires of antiquity
(Bilkent University, 2006)Although eighteenth-century British empire may seem a topic much exhausted by historians, there is still room for fresh primary sources and new approaches. Ancient Greek and Roman histories published in eighteenth-century ... -
Crusade images in eighteenth-century British histories
(Bilkent University, 2005)This thesis attempts to investigate how eighteenth-century British histories dealt with the theme of the medieval crusade. Since the nineteenth century produced so much more material in historical writing, as well as in ... -
John Bowles : a political commentator in the age of the French Wars
(Bilkent University, 1999)This study examines the writings of John Bowles, an English political writer, active as a pamphleteer during the era of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. After a general histoncal introduction (Chapter I), ... -
Noel Buxton : portrait of a philanthropist as a turcophobe
(Bilkent University, 1997)In Britain, the Balkan peoples, including Turks, were often cast into political roles demanded by British political theater. The Westemers who talked about the Balkan peoples often had their own, often non-Balkan agenda. ... -
Paradigm regained : the Hutchinsonian reconstruction of Trinitarian Protestant Christianity (1724-1806)
(Bilkent University, 2003)Recently, there has been a considerable attempt by historians of eighteenth-century intellectual history to present the religious and conservative side of the Enlightenment thought. Hutchinsonianism, as an eighteenth-century ... -
Politics, scholarship and dynastic history : the debate between Thomas Ruddiman and George Logan
(Bilkent University, 2007)In the first half of the eighteenth century, the debate between Thomas Ruddiman (1674-1757), a Jacobite classical scholar, historian, political writer and publisher, and the Rev. George Logan (1678-1755), had political ... -
The Satanic ingredients in the seventeenth century witchcraft debate
(Bilkent University, 1997)This Thesis is a study on the witchcraft debates of seventeenth century England. Throughout the study a special emphasis is given to the debate over the existence of alliance of witches with the Devil. This conception ... -
The War of Pamphlets (1807-1809) : a significant crisis within the missionary challenge to the East India Company's religious policy of non-interference
(Bilkent University, 1998)The War of Pamphlets fought between 1807 and 1809 was a significant crisis that occurred in Britain after the imposition of restrictions by the East India Company on the free-movement of the missionaries in India. The ...
