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 ...
Title:“Gypsies”, “travellers” and “peasants”: A study on ethnic boundary drawing in Finland and Sweden, c.1860-1925
Author(s):TERVONEN, MiikaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The study concerns two minority groups, the Finnish Roma and the Swedish Travellers, and their changing relationship with the ‘peasants’ - ie. the mainstream sedentary population - in a period of economic modernization and ...
Title:Havana’s Botanical Garden in the Construction of Cuban National Identity
Author(s):AGUILERA-MANZANO, José MaríaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this article is to deepen the knowledge of the two projects of liberal identity that were forming on the island of Cuba during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This struggle can be seen in various fields, ...