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The DUHS Journal 2018/19
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ESSAY-WRITING COMPETITION 2018/19
V o l u m e 1
THE HAPSBURGS: DOOMED TO FAILURE?
FOREWORD BY PROFESSOR JEREMY BLACK (MBE) OF EXETER UNIVERSITY
D U H S
Editor-in-Chief Deputy Editor
The Journal Team
Esmé Gray Joseph Beaden
Marlo Avidon Miles Callaghan Emma Chai Max Davies Lyndsey England
Sarah Ibberson Sasha Putt Freddie Vint
Department of History, 43 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EX
The journal team would like to express thanks to Joe Mallon for his permission to use his Grandfather’s, William Costello’s, fantastic photograph of Durham on the cover of our Journal. It was recently colourised by Joe himself.
CONTENTS
EDITOR’S NOTE, Esmé Gray
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, Kristina Novakovich
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FOREWORD: ANCIEN RÉGIME OR NOT? THE DURHAM DEPARTMENT, 1980-95, Professor Jeremy Black MBE viii
PART I: 2000 WORDS 10
WHY WAS LOVE SUCH A PROMINENT THEME IN CISTERCIAN THOUGHT? Grant Jones 11
MARXIAN DEFINITIONS OF FEUDALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TRANSITION DEBATE: DIFFICULTIES RESULTING FROM THEIR IMPLICATIONS, Hugo Lunn
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HOW IMPORTANT WAS VIOLENCE IN ENDING COLONIAL RULE IN AFRICA? Tom Hennessy 22
TO WHAT EXTENT WAS THE BOXER REBELLION A NATIONALIST MOVEMENT? Yeong Qian Hui 27
WAS BIOMEDICINE IN AFRICA A COLONIAL PROJECT? Josephine Simon
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PART II: 4000 WORDS 37
TO WHAT EXTENT CAN BENJAMIN DREW’S ‘THE REFUGEE, OR A NORTH-SIDE VIEW OF SLAVERY’ (1856) BE USED TO AID OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SLAVERY? Ines Andrade 38
WHY WAS THERE NO SUCCESSFUL DIPLOMATIC RESOLUTION TO THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR, C. 1337-1475? David Manchester 46
WERE THE POLITICAL ANDCULTURAL MOVEMENTS OF 20 TH
CENTURY JAPAN DRIVEN BY CRITICISM OF THE WEST? Katsuyuki Karl Omae
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PART III: SOURCE COMMENTARIES, HISTORIOGRAPHIES, SOURCE COMMENTARIES AND BOOK REVIEWS 62
HISTORIOGRAPHY: POLITICS AND REFORM IN AMERICA, Michaela Groundwater
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REVIEWED WORK(S): WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, MY EARLY LIFE: A ROVING COMMISSION (1930), Alex Hibberts 67
SOURCE COMMENTARY: THE CASE OF DEBORAH GREENING, Leah Nutall
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PART IV: DEBATE ON THE DEMISE OF THE EMPIRE OF THE HAPSBURGS 73
INTRODUCTION: WAS THE EMPIRE DOOMED? Dr Markian Prokopovych
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CATALYST OR WATERSHED? RE-VISITING THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE, Charlotte Alt
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DIZZY WITH OPTIMISM: REVISIONIST HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE NATIONALITY CONFLICT IN LATE AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Viktor Koleda 83
REVISITING EMPEROR KARL’S OCTOBER MANIFESTO, Adrian Reiss
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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: RETHINKING NATIONALITY CONFLICT IN LATE AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Meriel Smithson
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‘UNITY IN DISUNITY’: RETHINKING AUSTRIA-HUNGARY’S PLACE IN THE EUROPEAN RACE TO MODERNITY, Charlie Steer-Stephenson 103
PART V: SPECIAL ARTICLES 111
THE DUHSESSAY-WRITING COMPETITION, Sabrina Steuer 112 ‘THE FINGER POINTS’: A DECOLONISED APPROACH TO GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN INDIA, Ashley Castelino 113 SOUTH VIETNAMESE WOMEN: CAPITALISING ON COLONIALISM? 1920-1964, Clémentine Ducasse 119
THE ANNUAL DUHS WINTER BALL –LUMLEY CASTLE, 2018, Katie Scown
124
ONE YEAR IN DURHAM –LOOKING BACK, Dr Helen Roche
131
A YEAR OF RESEARCH LEAVE, Dr John-Henry Clay
133
THE DUHS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND JOURNAL TEAM, 2018-19 135
