Title:Shaping Virtuous Friendship: the Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in late Ming China
Author(s):HOSNE, Ana CarolinaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Taking as a starting point his first treatise in Chinese, ‘On Friendship’ (Jiaoyou lun, 1595), this paper aims to analyze the process by which the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1583-1610) shaped the concept of virtuous ...
Title:Sharecropping in history
Author(s):SCHOFIELD, Phillipp; CâMARA, Benedita; CâMARA, Benedita; CARMONA, Juan; FEDERICO, Giovanni; SANTOS, RuiDate:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:A Short-Lived Backlash: The political economy of wheat protection in Europe in the first half of the 19th century
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the first half of the 19th century, the wheat trade policy in Western European countries followed a major political cycle, featuring a massive increase in protection in the late 1810s and early 1820s, and a slow process ...
Title:Siberian bosses : elite formation and legitimization in Russia from a regional perspective (1991-2004)
Author(s):BARA, AnnaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The political power to direct society is legitimate only when it expresses the identity of society and is attached to social values and norms. The problem is that, in Russia, the demolition of the Communist ideology and ...
Title:Sibling Relations in Spanish Emigration to Latin America, 1560-1620
Author(s):ALMORZA HIDALGO, AmeliaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Women and family groups participated significantly in early-modern Spanish emigration to Latin America between 1560 and 1620. Through an analysis of the personal correspondence contained in travel licences (Archivo General ...
Title:The Silent Republic: Popular Music and Nationalism in Socialist Croatia
Author(s):VULETIC, DeanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper explores the development of popular music and its relationship to the political situation in Croatia and Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991, and how global musical trends were used to construct and reinvent Croatian ...