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Thesis (M. Sc.(Agric.))(Agricultural Economics)--University of Pretoria, 2002. / Summaries in Afrikaans and English. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--San Jose State University, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Feb. 8, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-05, Section: A, page: 1756. Adviser: Dror Wahrman.

Thesis (M.S.)--Middle East Technical University, 2003. / Keywords: Flexibility, Variable Geometry, Concentric Circles, Eccentric Circles, Multispeed Europe, Tindemans Report, Europe a la Carte, Closer Cooperation, Rome Treaty, Single European Act, Maastricht Treaty, Treaty of Amsterdam, Nice Treaty.

My dissertation examines the causes, events and outcomes of the two largest British naval mutinies and their revolutionary potential during the era of the French Revolution. Previous historians have attempted to define these mutinies through a variety of mono-causal explanations such as material demands and political theory; each has failed as they did not identify the divisions that existed between the seamen. My research examines the impact of masculine identities of working-class men, in this case British seamen. By returning agency to the seamen, I have concluded that these men were divided in their ideas about manhood and these divisions shaped the motives, courses, and outcomes of the two major mutinies in the Royal Navy of 1797. Competing understandings of gender identity divided the seamen. One faction of seamen promoted revolutionary ideas imported from France which defined all men as political equals; the others saw their manhood defined by the traditional plebeian maritime values of skill, bravery, and nationalism. The plebeian seamen mutinied over material grievances. The revolutionary seamen attempted to use the resulting social chaos to redirect the mutinies to political and social revolutions. But the revolution was short lived and failed, not due to the actions of the state, which was largely an observer to the events, but because the plebeian seamen would not accept ideas and actions that made them betray the monarch and nation and therefore their sense of manhood. Using violent measures, these seamen suppressed their revolutionary brethren and ended the mutinies, much to the state's relief. My research will explain how a working-class revolution took place in Britain in the 1790s, and why it was defeated not by the power of the state but by other working-class men who believed that the new revolutionary ideology and masculine understandings that it promoted were incompatible with their plebeian maritime concept of masculinity. My dissertation concludes that a British revolution did occur on the decks of the Royal Navy, but it was defeated by a gender-based division among the seamen.

English and Portuguese relations had their beginning in the old defensive alliances of the fourteenth century. In the seventeenth century these alliances took on commercial features. The Methuen Treaty of 1703 was the first definite commercial agreement. Between 1898 and 1909 England became intensely interested in the Portuguese African colonies. She realized that Portugal's grave financial status, at the end of the nineteenth century, would lead to the seizure of her colonies by some strong European power. She desired to be that power. In attempting to conclude treaties that would make her the natural heir of these African colonies, she came into conflict with Germany, who entered in the colonial field late, and who was determined that there would be no transfer of any African colonies without her sharing in it. The bickerings and contests of England and Germany over the Portuguese African colonies furnish the main theme of this paper. This study is based primarily on the British Documents, volumes I, II, III, VI, and VIII. It is believed that some new evidence is given since Fay's Origins of the World War and Langer's The Diplomacy of Imperialism were published before some of these volumes appeared.