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Here you will find an overview of current and completed PhD and Master's theses in the field of history at Swiss universities. Compiled in collaboration with the Swiss Historical Society (SSH)

You will find copies of the competed works in the library of the university where they were drafted.

Status: 2025/2026
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The 1978 elections: South Africa`s decolonisation plan for Namibia

AutorIn Name
Timo
Mashuna
Academic writing genre
Master thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof. PhD
Patrick
Harries
Institution
Historisches Seminar
Place
Basel
Year
2008/2009
Abstract
In my thesis I focused on the 1978 elections in Namibia. These elections came as a response to a decision of the International Court of Justice, which in 1971 ruled that South Africa's more...

The administrator, the chief, and the officer. Making and remaking the colonial administration in late colonial Guinea-Bissau (1961-1974)

AutorIn Name
Pedro
Cerdeira de Jesus
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Alexander
Keese
Institution
Histoire contemporaine
Place
Genève
Year
2021/2022
Abstract


Cette thèse porte sur le quotidien administratif en Guinée-Bissau sous la présence coloniale, visant faire une histoire sociale de l’administration locale et de la transition pour more...

The Allies and the Italian Social Republic; Anglo-American relations with, perceptions of, and judgments on the RSI during the Italian Civil War, 1943-1945

AutorIn Name
Oreste
Foppiani
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Bruno
Arcidiacono
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2008/2009
Abstract

La thèse se compose de trois essais distincts liés par le fil rouge de la République Sociale Italienne (RSI). Le thème général est l'attitude des more...