Title:The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:LSE Economic History Working PapersAbstract:This paper investigates the role of consumption in the emergence of the motion picture industry in Britain France and the US. A time-lag of at least twelve years between the invention of cinema and the film industry’s ...
Title:Explaining the Past Through Artefacts: 1998 Historical Exhibitions in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Author(s):CAUVIN, ThomasDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The purpose of this article is to examine how exhibitions can help historians to study interpretations and constructions of the past. The article focuses on historical exhibitions dealing with the 1798 Rebellion and held ...
Title:Faide e parentele : Lo stato genovese visto dalla Fontanabuona
Author(s):RAGGIO, OsvaldoDate:1990Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Visto dalla Fontanabuona - un frammento della Repubblica oligarchica genovese -, il processo di formazione dello stato moderno appare connotato da protagonisti e dinamiche sociali che un'ottica storiografica concentrata ...
Title:Famiglie e potere. Il ceto dirigente di Lugano e Mendrisio tra Sei e Settecento
Author(s):SCHNYDER, MarcoDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il libro di Marco Schnyder, nutrito da ricerche nuove e sostenuto da un ampio lavoro di sintesi sulla società suddita dei baliaggi subalpini, colma un vuoto della storiografia e ne fa un'opera estremamente preziosa per chi ...
Title:Family Life and Individual Welfare in Post-war Europe. Britain and Italy Compared
Author(s):BERNINI, StefaniaDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Throughout the postwar period, changes in individual behaviour and legal reforms have transformed traditional notions of family life throughout Western Europe. However, interpretations of what constituted a desirable family ...
Title:Fanciulli e giovani: Crescere a Firenze nel Rinascimento
Author(s):TADDEI, IlariaDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Nel corso del Quattrocento crebbe a Firenze l’interesse delle autorità civili e religiose per l’infanzia e la puerizia e, allo stesso tempo, si rafforzò la consapevolezza delle differenze di età. La creazione di confraternite ...
Title:Fears and Hope in Numbers: Financial Data and the Writing of History
Author(s):MARCUS, NathanDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper puts forward the methodological view that certain data produced by financial markets can be used without the need to look into how they were compiled. It argues that when trying to understand the causes of the ...