- Cadmus Home
- >
- Browsing by Type
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing by Type "Thesis"
Now showing items 61-80 of 2258
-
Title: 'We, the People' vs. 'We, the Peoples': The debate over the nature of the union in the USA and Canada and its lessons for European integration Author(s): MANN, Dennis-Jonathan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Dennis-Jonathan Mann’s thesis contributes to a growing body of literature that uses the framework of comparative federalism to “make sense” of the European Union. On an empirical level, the thesis contrasts the EU discourse ...
-
Title: Lire le livre du corps par le livre du Monde : essai sur la vie, philosophie et médicine d'Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro (1559-1638) Author(s): LEITE, Bruno Martins Boto Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The present study offers an analysis of the life and thought of Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro, a Portuguese philosopher and physician working in the court of Grand Duke of Tuscany in early seventeenth century. It traces ...
-
Title: Do Deliberative and Participatory Processes Matter? Crafting trust in political institutions Author(s): NIELSEN HASSING, Julie Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Why do people trust certain political institutions and not others, and how best to account for trust’s relationship with democratic participation? This dissertation focuses on the relationship between democratic participation ...
-
Title: Global Trade, Circulation and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Atlantic World: The Manila galleons and the social elites of Mexico and Seville (1580-1640) Author(s): GASCH TOMÁS, José Luis Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: In the last three decades, many historians have analysed the development of new consumption patterns and changes in demand during the early modern period. The development of global trade during the early modern era has led ...
-
Title: A quarta porta do inferno : o clero e a luxúria no espaço luso-americano (1640-1750) Author(s): GOUVEIA, Jaime Ricardo Teixeira Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Structured in seven chapters, this dissertation has a well defined scientific purpose: to study the lustful behaviors of the clergy that, according to Liguori, gives access to the fourth door of Hell, and also to inquire ...
-
Title: Janello Torriani (Cremona 1500 ca.-Toledo 1585): A social history of invention between Renaissance and scientific revolution Author(s): ZANETTI, Cristiano Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This PhD thesis analyses the ways in which technological and scientific knowledge was acquired, circulated and employed in Renaissance Europe, and how technological innovation was practiced at the dawn of the Scientific ...
-
Title: Les complots politiques en France et en Italie de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à la fin des années 1950 Author(s): GIRARD, Pascal Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Thesis in four volumes. No abstract available.
-
Title: Soviet DPs for the Belgian Mining Industry (1944-1960): The daily struggle against Yalta of a forgotten minority? Author(s): LUYCKX, Lieselotte Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The liberation of Western Europe from Nazism meant the freeing of a high number of foreign citizens and soldiers. Many among them had been brought here for the purpose of (forced) labour in the Nazi war economy. In March ...
-
Title: Eating the Last Seed: Famine, empire, survival and order in Ottoman Anatolia in the late 19th century Author(s): ERTEM, Özge Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This dissertation explores the social and cultural history of two Anatolian famines in the late-Ottoman Empire, situating them in the economic and political environment of the 1870s. It focuses on the central Anatolian ...
-
Title: Disenchanted Europeans: Polish émigré writers from Kultura and the postwar reformulations of the West Author(s): MIKOLAJEWSKI, Lukasz Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: What are “Europe” and “the West”? How did the understandings of these notions change after World War II? In what way were they reconsidered and re-evaluated by the exiles from those European countries that, after 1945, ...
-
Title: Land Inequality and Agriculture in Interwar Italy Author(s): MARTINELLI LASHERAS, Pablo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis presents a re-interpretation of the role played by latifundia in Italian economic history based on a new theory of the effects of land inequality, namely that high landownership concentration leads to market ...
-
Title: Immagini di un mito tropicale: rappresentazioni visive del Borneo tra grafica e fotografia Author(s): CHIARELLI, Cosimo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Il piccolo regno di Sarawak, nella parte settentrionale dell’isola del Borneo, occupa un posto del tutto speciale nell’immaginario esotico Vittoriano. Grazie alla sua posizione geografica, alla ricchezza naturalistica, ...
-
Title: National Museums and the Mobilization of History: Commemorative exhibitions of Anglo-Irish conflicts in Ireland and Northern Ireland (1921-2006) Author(s): CAUVIN, Thomas Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Through the study of commemorative exhibitions arranged at the National Museum of Ireland (Ireland) and at the Ulster Museum (Northern Ireland), this thesis compares the changing representations of three historical conflicts ...
-
Title: Tarocchi as Renaissance Memory Places Author(s): NEDELEA, Patricia Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Why were the Tarocchi cards invented? Historiography gives two disjunctive answers: gaming and fortunetelling. This thesis offers a third original answer. Tarocchi as Renaissance Memory Places shows that these figurative ...
-
Title: Uncertainty, expectations, and the business cycle Author(s): LANG, Jan Hannes Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis adds to the recent quantitative literature that considers variations in uncertainty as impulses driving the business cycle. In chapter one a flexible partial equilibrium model that features heterogeneous firms, ... -
Title: Three Essays on Imbalances in a Monetary Union Author(s): HJORTSØ, Ida Maria Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis investigates the implications of imbalances within a monetary union. In the first chapter, I study how international financial frictions lead to international imbalances and affect optimal fiscal policy in a ...
-
Title: Three Essays in Macroeconomics Author(s): SÁNCHEZ-MARTÍNEZ, Miguel Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis comprises three thorough investigations into different important economic issues. The common nexus between them is the long-horizon nature of the subjects covered, in which economic growth plays a central role. ...
-
Title: Essays on Healthcare, Long-term Care and Retirement Author(s): GOUSIA, Aikaterini Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis focuses on three distinct topics around healthcare and ageing. The first chapter assess the effectiveness of the current regime that regulates the entry and geographical distribution of pharmacies in Italy. ...
-
Title: A Discrete-Choice Econometrician's Tale of Monetary Policy Identification and Predictability Author(s): SIRCHENKO, Andrei Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis studies the econometric identification and predictability of monetary policy. It addresses the discrete and collective nature of policy decisions, and the use of the real-time versus currently available revised ...
-
Title: Funktionale Alternativen einer europäischen Unternehmensverfassung Author(s): ABELTSHAUSER, Thomas E. Date: 1985 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses
Now showing items 61-80 of 2258
Browse
-
All of Cadmus
My Account
© European University Institute 2012
Badia Fiesolana - Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy