This thesis has two primary aims. The first is to more fully understand the bounded rationality models are first applied to the Treasury's relationship with the Minister of Finance. The economic elite model is then applied ...

Using La Route des Flandres as the central text and five other of his novels, namely L 'Herbe, La Bataille de Pharsale, Histoire, Leçon de Chases and Triptyque to extend and elaborate the theme this thesis investigates ...

This thesis examines the role of the state in redistributing income between social classes in New Zealand during the years 1949-1975. It applies an innovative methodology, developed by E. Ahmet Tonak, to a set of data drawn ...

This thesis presents the results of an intensive study into literature of the years 1760-1830 to discover at what times and in what ways the building of England's narrow canal system, which occurred during these years, ...

This thesis combines a linguistic study of the meaning of άφίστημι with a Content Analysis of Thucydides' accounts of revolt. In Part One, concentration on the semantic field of άφίστημιand its derivatives permits the ...

Between 1880 and 1980 the ordained ministry of the Methodist Church of New Zealand faced many changes. This study seeks to examine the way in which, during this period, the ministry lost much of its homogeneity to become ...

Modernisation has been a goal in China for more than a century. The late Qing Court, the Nationalist Government and the Communist leadership had all tried to launch China onto the road to modernisation. It has been a ...

This thesis presents a study of dandyism with reference to Oscar Wilde and Dorian Gray in the form of a comparative analysis. It provides a critique of the social and cultural theories of dandyism of Ellen Moers, ...

This thesis examines the role of New Zealand Truth within interwar society. It seeks to identify the audience, market niche, and style of the paper. Its essential concern is with using theoretical models to inform a ...

This thesis examines trade between New Zealand and Japan in the period 1928-1958. These are the years in which New Zealand and Japan signed commercial treaties establishing Most Friendly Nation relations. The study ...