Title:Globalization and Nationalism in Latin America, c.1750-1950
Author(s):GOEBEL, Thomas MichaelDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The relationship between globalization and nationalism in Latin America is neither linear nor purely dialectical; in fact, it provides an almost ideal portrait of the periodic blurring of the two over time. This article ...
Title:A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions
Author(s):GATEJEL, LuminitaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper gives a panoramic mapping of the infamous socialist ‘economy of shortages’ (Kornai) as it was lived and experienced by ordinary socialist citizens. It starts out by framing the general conditions under which ...
Title:The Grace of Misery: Joseph Roth and the politics of exile, 1919–1939
Author(s):LAZAROMS, Ilse JosephaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The book confronts the life and intellectual heritage of the Galician-Jewish exiled journalist and writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939). Through the quandaries that occupied his mature writings—nostalgia, suffering, European ...