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This thesis is a study of the circulation and reproductive impact of public representations of the Burnage Report, a document which loomed large in the public debates in Britain on the issue of antiracism policies in schools in the late 1980s. Emanating from an inquiry into a student's murder at Manchester's Burnage High School, the Report was held up in much of the British press as having concluded that antiracism policies were a blameworthy factor in the murder. Such conclusions were contested by the authors of the Report, who maintained that racism, not antiracism, was the primary factor in the murder. Making use of methodologies and analyses derived from the fields of Cultural Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, this thesis examines the apparent disjuncture between the Report and its representations, comparing a "preferred reading" of the Report with press readings, and analyzing the discursive sources of press representations of antiracism. Also examined are the representations of the Report in the subsequent academic production on antiracism, in order to ascertain the impact of press representations on understandings of the Report's significance.

Dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle, la pauvreté afflige les populations en France et la région de Toulouse n'est pas épargnée. Les habitants du diocèse doivent souvent compter sur l'assistance paroissiale à différentes périodes de l'année. Dans ce cadre, les cures de paroisses deviennent des témoins de premier plan de la précarité dans laquelle vit cette population. S'occupant autant des affaires spirituelles de la paroisse que des affaires quotidiennes du temporel, ces acteurs sociaux sont bien insérés dans le milieu ou ils oeuvrent. Ceci leur donne une perspective privilégiée de la pauvreté des habitants. La perception qu'ils en ont s'observé dans une enquête diocésaine commandée en 1763 par le nouvel archevêque de Toulouse, Loménie de Brienne. Celle-ci dévoile, à travers questions et réponses, l'importance de la pauvreté au sein des paroisses, les causes spécifiques du problème et les moyens d'y remédier. Évaluée à la lumière du discours que tiennent sur le sujet les élites religieuses de l'époque, la vision de la pauvreté des membres du bas clergé s'en démarque.

This thesis traces the origins of the Great Game, a geopolitical conflict between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia to the intellectual and constitutional construction of 'British India' after the Battle of Plassey in 1757. Using a diverse range of ideas and facets of British and Indian society it will examine how the East India Company, the Mughal Empire and the domestic British state all contributed to the development of the Great Game in the middle of the nineteenth century. By examining how British politicians and scholars interpreted the nature of British sovereignty and government in Bengal, it will demonstrate that once the East India Company had secured territorial domain in India, its employees set about interpreting many of the political, legal and religious ideas and traditions of Indian society in a way that made them more governable for Britons. This exercise in intellectual imperialism, in turn, had many unforeseen consequences, one of which was a propensity to expand the British Indian state into the rest of the subcontinent. This paper uses a variety of primary sources and the rich historiography of British India from recent decades to examine and evaluate this interesting and important episode.

This thesis examines the development of civil aviation in Communist Europe from 1945 to 1970, focusing on political, legal, economic, and technological factors. Most of that region fell into the orbit of the Soviet Union, which provided aircraft, and encouraged isolation from the West in aviation matters. This isolation was compounded by the United States, which enacted a policy of Containment against Communist nations that enacted restrictions applying to aircraft and access to airspace. This limited the growth of Communist airlines and fostered interdependence within the Soviet sphere. Connections between East and West began to grow by the mid-1950s as restrictions were reduced, opening a market for air travel. The formation of air links and growing tourist travel indicated a current for European unity even during the height of the conflict, suggesting that the end of the Cold War started far earlier than the fall of the Berlin Wall.