Title:Immagini di un mito tropicale: rappresentazioni visive del Borneo tra grafica e fotografia
Author(s):CHIARELLI, CosimoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Il piccolo regno di Sarawak, nella parte settentrionale dell’isola del Borneo, occupa un posto del tutto speciale nell’immaginario esotico Vittoriano. Grazie alla sua posizione geografica, alla ricchezza naturalistica, ...
Title:Impenetrable Plans and Porous Expertise: Building a socialist Bucharest, reconstructing its past (1953-1968)
Author(s):GRAMA, EmanuelaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper analyzes the urban modernization of socialist Romania during the 1950s and 1960s with an eye to understanding the reconfiguration of professional and political alliances in the post-war socialist bloc. I argue ...
Title:The Implicit Theory of Historical Change in the Work of Alan S. Milward
Author(s):LYNCH, Frances M. B.; GUIRAO, FernandoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:Alan S. Milward was an economic historian who developed an implicit theory of historical change. His interpretation which was neither liberal nor Marxist posited that social, political, and economic change, for it to be ...
Title:In the company of Iyäsus: The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia, 1557-1632
Author(s):MARTINEZ D'ALOS-MONER, AndreuDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study focuses on the Jesuit mission in Ethiopia (1557-1632). It presents a comprehensive history of the mission, from its inception during the reign of the Portuguese King Dom Manuel I, through its phase of expansion ...
Title:In the Doorway to Development: An enquiry into market oriented structural changes in Norway ca. 1750-1830
Author(s):HUTCHISON, RagnhildDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Most studies of pre-industrial economic and structural change focus on the economically leading regions or countries of the time, or use this development as an ideal by which to evaluate and compare change occurring in ...