Browsing Department of History and Civilization (HEC) by Title

Title:The Political Role of the Female Consort in Protestant Germany, 1550-1585: Anna of Saxony as Mater Patriae Author(s):ARENFELDT, PernilleDate:2006Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2006Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:In a letter to the Augsburg patrician Martin Pfinzing, Anna of Saxony referred to herself as the Landesfurstin of Saxony. The term Anna used to describe her position is significant because it cannot simply be translated ...

Title:Political strategies and electoral reforms: origins of voting systems in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries Editor(s):NOIRET, Serge

Date:1990Citation:Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1990Type:Book

Title:Political Thought from Machiavelli to Stalin: Revolutionary Machiavellism Author(s):REES, Edward ArfonDate:2004Citation:Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2004Type:Book

Title:Political Thought from Machiavelli to Stalin: Revolutionary Machiavellism Editor(s):REES, Edward ArfonDate:2004Citation:Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004Type:Book

Title:The political thought of Anacharsis Cloots : a proponent of cosmopolitan republicanism in the French revolution Author(s):POULSEN, Frank Ejby

Date:2023Citation:De Gruyter : Berlin, 2023Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2018Type:BookAbstract:Historians have often either ignored Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) or considered him deranged because he claimed to be the ‘orator of the human race’ and devised a ‘universal republic’ based on the ‘sovereignty of the human ...

Title:The political thought of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716) Author(s):LISTA, Giovanni

Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The purpose of this thesis is twofold. On the one hand, it attempts to achieve a proper contextualisation of the works of the Scottish patriot Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1712), drawing on but going beyond the studies ...

Title:The political thought of the Dutch revolt (1555-1590) Author(s):VAN GELDEREN, MartinDate:1988Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1988Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis

Title:The political thought of the Dutch Revolt, 1555-1590 Author(s):VAN GELDEREN, MartinDate:1992Citation:Cambridge/New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992, Ideas in contextVersion:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1988Type:BookAbstract:This book is a comprehensive study of the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt (1555-90). It explores the development of the political ideas which motivated and legitimized the Dutch resistance against the ...

Title:Political Violence and Morality in Anarchist Theory and Practice Author(s):WHELEHAN, NiallDate:2005Citation:Anarchist Studies, 2005, 13, 2Type:Article

Title:The Political, the Social and the Economic in a European Political Order Author(s):STRATH, BoDate:2007Citation:Hans-Ake PERSSON and Bo STRATH (eds), Reflections on Europe. Defining a Political Order in Time and Space, Bruxelles, P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2007, Multiple Europes, 37, pp. 137-158Type:Contribution to book

Title:Políticas del pasado en la España franquista (1939-1964) : historia, nacionalismo y dictadura Author(s):ALARES LÓPEZ, GustavoDate:2017Citation:Madrid : Marcial Pons, 2017, EstudiosVersion:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2014Type:BookAbstract:El presente libro analiza las políticas del pasado desplegadas por la dictadura y la configuración de una determinada identidad histórica nacional bajo el franquismo. Tras el hundimiento de 1939, los historiadores del Nuevo ...

Title:Politics and watermelons : cross-border political networks in the Polish-Moldavian-Ottoman context in the seventeenth century Author(s):WASIUCIONEK, Michal

Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation addresses the cross-border political networks between members of the Polish-Lithuanian, Ottoman and Moldavian political elites in the seventeenth century (1595-1711).Throughout this period, the Porte and ...

Title:Politics disavowed, remarks on the status of politics in the philosophy of Descartes Author(s):CAVAILLE, Jean-PierreDate:1987Citation:Diogenes, 1987, No. 138, pp. 118-138Type:Article

Title:The politics of alcohol in late socialist Romania and Czechoslovakia Author(s):WAHLEN, Esther

Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines the politics of alcohol in Eastern bloc states in the 1970s and 1980s. In this period, socialist governments ceased describing alcohol problems as a symptom of exploitation or as the result of a lack ...

Title:The politics of Croatia-Slavonia 1903-1918 : nationalism, state allegiance and the changing international order Author(s):VELIZ, FernandoDate:2012Citation:Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012, Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen : Geschichte – Gesellschaft – Kultur, 055Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2010Type:BookAbstract:The gradual erosion of allegiance to the Monarchy in Croatia-Slavonia at the beginning of 20th century was a long and protracted process that saw the abandonment of the concept of Croatian state right for the principle of ...

Title:Politics of diversity : sexual and religious self-fashioning in contemporary and historical contexts Editor(s):CALVI, Giulia; FADIL, Nadia; FALEK, Pascale; MICCOLI, Dario; MOSCHEL, Mathias; STORNIG, KatharinaDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI HEC; 2011/01Abstract:Scott’s seminal book ‘Politics of the Veil’ (2007) offers a multifaceted analysis of the French headscarf debate since its emergence in 1989 and a critique of French republican universalism which constructs veiled women ...

Title:Politics of plunder : post-German property and the reconstruction of East Central Europe after the Second World War Author(s):KONCZAL, Kornelia

Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Around the end of the Second World War two processes dramatically changed the socioeconomic landscape of East Central Europe: the expulsion of up to twelve million Germans and the establishment of a new social order inspired ...

Title:The politics of property in a European periphery : the ownership of books, berries, and patents in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1850-1910 Author(s):LA MELA, Matti

Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:In the late nineteenth century, the Grand Duchy of Finland benefited from its backward position in the peripheral corner of Europe; its export markets expanded, career opportunities were sought abroad, and foreign ideas ...

Title:The politics of space : symbols of hegemonic and non-dominant ethnic groups in the urban landscape of Prussia and Austria-Hungary (1867-1914) Author(s):KISIEL, Piotr

Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation examines the symbolic urban landscape in the four cities of Prussia and Austria-Hungary in the period 1867-1914. Following a theoretical discussion of the symbolic politics and construction of collective ...

Title:Politics of space in Prussian and Austrian-Hungarian cities Author(s):KISIEL, Piotr

Date:2018Citation:Marburg : Verlag Herder-Institut, 2018, Studien zur Ostmitteleuropaforschung ; 40Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2016Type:BookAbstract:This book tells a story of urban modernisation on the peripheries of the two nineteenthcentury empires, examines how people at the time imagined a 'European city' and how they strived to fulfil this ideal. At the same ...