Title:Bengali raw silk, the East India Company and the European global market, 1770-1833
Author(s):DAVINI, RobertoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In 1769, the East India Company decided to transform the Bengali silk industry, and introduced Piedmontese reeling technologies and spatially concentrated working practices into the area. Although Bengali raw silk reeled ...
Title:BENGASI REVISITED: A Cdrom
Author(s):BARATIERI, DanielaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:It all began in Autumn 2000 with Luisa Passerini’s EUI workshop Films as
Sources for Cultural history: Case Studies from 1930s to 1950s. Thanks to all those
who contributed to this forum. Thanks particularly to Luisa for ...
Title:Between Assimilation and Emigration: Jews in Wroclaw from the Second World War to 1968
Author(s):KAZEJAK, IzabelaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article presents the results of research conducted in Wroclaw in 2006 under the sponsorship of the Fritz - Stern Scholarship. These results formed the basis for a Master of Arts thesis defended in 2007 in the department ...
Title:Between intransigence and Nationalism. The image of "the Jew" in La Civiltà Cattolica, 1850-1903
Author(s):LEBOVITCH DAHL, José DavidDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation addresses the problem of the function of Catholic anti-Jewish propaganda in the second half of the nineteenth century as well as the question of the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the formation of ...
Title:Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla: The autonomous movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s
Author(s):VAN DER STEEN, BartDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The years 1980-1981 witnessed youth revolts all over Western Europe. Influenced by radical politics and punk subculture, youths squatted houses and demanded autonomous, self-managed youth centres and clashed with the police. ...
Title:Beyond 'Media Panics': Reconceptualising public debates about children and media
Author(s):BUCKINGHAM, David; JENSEN, Helle StrandgaardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper presents a critical review of the use of “moral panics” theory as a means of understanding public debates about children and media, and specifically of the notion of “media panics.” Following a brief presentation ...
Title:Beyond Bilateralism: Spanish-Italian relations and the influence of the major powers, 1943-1957
Author(s):DEL HIERRO LECEA, PabloDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of this work is to study Spanish-Italian diplomatic relations in the period 1943-1957. However, and in spite of the fact that the question of Spanish-Italian diplomatic relations between 1943 and 1957 will remain ...
Title:Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950
Author(s):LEVINE, Philippa; GRANT, Kevin; TRENTMANN, FrankDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Beyond Sovereignty explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world ...
Title:Beyond the Public Sphere: Opinions, publics, spaces in early modern Europe
Author(s):ROSPOCHER, MassimoDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:For fifty years Habermas’s ideal-typical model of the public sphere has been the catalyst for historiographical debate about public opinion and been recognized as an interpretative paradigm of the development of Western ...
Title:Beyond utopianism and relativism: History in the plural in the work of Reinhart Koselleck
Author(s):OLSEN, NiklasDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study examines the work of the German historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006). Its aim is to provide an inter-textual and contextual interpretation of Koselleck’s scholarly production. While a variety of articles, ...
Title:Bodies That (Don't) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration
Author(s):AHMAD, Ali NobilDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper explores the importance of sexuality in international labour migration from Pakistan, paying special attention to masculine desire and subjectivity (driving forces in sending contexts), and to the bodily experience ...
Title:The body beautiful and the beauty of nation : representing gender and modernity (Buenos Aires 1918-1939)
Author(s):TOSSOUNIAN, CeciliaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This research focuses on the appearance of modern femininity in the mass media of Buenos Aires of the interwar period, showing the diverse range of meanings that the modern young woman phenomenon had in post-war Argentina. ...