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Academic Essays and a Dissertation

These essays all come from my third-year undergraduate courses (1996 - 97) at Royal Holloway College, University of London. You are free to use the ideas and to quote from them, but you should, of course, adhere to convention (and courtesy) by proper citation. If you don't, you are a dishonest and self-deluding individual. You know who you are...

1. US Economic History
• US Immigration before 1914
• The US's Emergence as major exporter by 1920
• The US's Economic Dominance by the mid-20th century
• Deindustrialisation


2. British Imperialism and Decolonisation 1914 - 1980
   • The empire and world war one
   • 'Native Paramountcy' and Kenya between the wars
   • Africa as a surrogate for India?
   • The Legacy of Imperial Dissolution
   
   
3. Culture and Society in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
   • Nazism and the working class
   • Nazism and popular culture
   • Economic necessity and world war two
   • 'Fontamara' and Silone
   
   
4. Undergraduate Dissertation
   • Race and Policy-Making in Kenya, 1888 - 1923

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