Title:From Centre to Province: Changing images of Europe in the writings of Jerzy Stempowski
Author(s):MIKOLAJEWSKI, LukaszDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:Residing after World War II in Berne, Jerzy Stempowski was one of the key essayists associated with the influential Polish émigré periodical Kultura. The chapter offers a brief overview of the way his writing on Europe ...
Title:Historisierung
Author(s):KOLAR, PavelDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:La Mettrie ou les morts de Monsieur Machine
Author(s):THOMSON, AnnDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article, after evoking the hostile fictitious account of La Mettrie’s death in which he is described as a machine, studies first of all how this doctor discussed death in his own works, in particular in Système ...
Title:Beyond 'Media Panics': Reconceptualising public debates about children and media
Author(s):BUCKINGHAM, David; JENSEN, Helle StrandgaardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper presents a critical review of the use of “moral panics” theory as a means of understanding public debates about children and media, and specifically of the notion of “media panics.” Following a brief presentation ...
Title:Storia internazionale dell’età contemporanea
Author(s):ROMERO, FedericoDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A survey of international politics and visions of the international system from the late 19th century to the present. Interweaving international, transnational and economic history, it recounts the mains trend and events ...
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:The Rise of Fiscal States: A global history, 1500-1914
Author(s):YUN-CASALILLA, Bartolome; O’BRIEN Patrick K.; COMÍN COMÍN, FranciscoDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country ...
Title:Une souveraineté de papier au miroir de l'Europe : publier Christine de Suède entre 1654 et 1689
Author(s):LEMAIGNAN, MarionDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Christine de Suède (1626-1689) devient après son abdication en 1654 un phénomène politique à l’échelle européenne. La singularité de son statut ainsi que sa volonté de conserver une action politique après l’abdication ...
Title:Official Policy and Local Responses: Jews in Wrocław and L'viv: a comparative perspective, 1945 to 1970s
Author(s):KAZEJAK, IzabelaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation examines the process of re-establishment of Jewish communities in two cities: in Wroclaw, a city that passed after 1945 from Germany to Poland, and in L’viv, a city that passed from Poland to Soviet ...
Title:Sprovincializzare l'Italia: la casa editrice Einaudi in Europa (1943-1957)
Author(s):MUNARI, TommasoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale la casa editrice Einaudi, nata a Torino nel 1933, avvia una politica di sprovincializzazione e aggiornamento della cultura italiana che si traduce in un’azione di consolidamento delle ...
Title:Laws of Return? Co-ethnic immigration to West Germany and Israel (1948-1992)
Author(s):PANAGIOTIDIS, JannisDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation examines the phenomenon of co-ethnic immigration to West Germany and Israel between 1948 and 1992. Its core object of study is the legal and institutional arrangements for co-ethnic immigration in both ...
Title:Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla: The autonomous movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s
Author(s):VAN DER STEEN, BartDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The years 1980-1981 witnessed youth revolts all over Western Europe. Influenced by radical politics and punk subculture, youths squatted houses and demanded autonomous, self-managed youth centres and clashed with the police. ...