Master / Licentiates / Dissertations

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: 2024/2025
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A slow reckoning; the USSR, the Afghan communists, and Islam

Author name
Vassily
Klimentov
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
Lecturer name
Prof.
Mahmoud
Mohamedou
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2020/2021
Abstract

This dissertation examines the Soviet Union and the Afghan communists’ perception and policies on Islam during the Soviet-Afghan War and their relations with the “Muslim more...

A South African social garden: people, plants and multispecies histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Author name
Melanie
Boehi
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
Lecturer name
Prof.
Nigel
Penn
Institution
Departement Geschichte
Place
Basel
Year
2019/2020
Abstract

Gardens and gardening are widely regarded as apolitical. Accordingly, garden historians have hardly written about politics, and social historians have rarley taken gardens and gardening into more...

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A South African Social Garden: People, Plants and Multispecies Histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Author name
Melanie
Böhi
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
Lecturer name
Prof.
Julia
Tischler
Institution
Departement Geschichte
Place
Genève
Year
2022/2023
Abstract

The dissertation with the title “A South African Social Garden: People, Plants and Multispecies Histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden” studies how the Kirstenbosch more...

A special role for Ritalin. Die Werbesprache der Ritalinreklamen in den USA, 1967-1974

Author name
Sara
Zimmermann
Academic writing genre
Licenciate thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
Lecturer name
Prof.
Jakob
Tanner
Institution
Neuzeit
Place
Zürich
Year
2012/2013
Abstract

Methylphenidat wurde 1954 von Ciba unter dem Namen Ritalin patentiert und 1956 auf dem US-Markt lanciert. Wie andere Psychopharmaka war Ritalin nicht für ein bestimmtes Leiden entwickelt worden, more...

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