Title:O'Gorman, lecteur d’Acosta
Author(s):DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ne serait-ce que du point de vue de sa réception, La invención de América est la partie la plus marquante de l’œuvre d’O’Gorman. Cet ouvrage synthétique, bref, marque l’aboutissement d’un long et patient travail d’analyse ...
Title:La Invención de Edmundo O’Gorman
Author(s):AVILÉS FLORES, Pablo; CHEIRIF WOLOSKY, Alejandro; DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il y a certainement quelque chose d’ironique à organiser un colloque sur Edmundo O’Gorman à Paris, Paris qu’il qualifiait volontiers de temple de l’orthodoxie de l’histoire pour mieux se déclarer lui-même hétérodoxe. Non ...
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: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:Forum: Intellectual history in and of the Federal Republic of Germany
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can one say about the state of the art in the Federal Republic? A number of aspects are discernible, not only in the practices and various traditions of intellectual history there, but also in its politics: the stark ...
Title:The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and comparative methodology
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:How does one avoid the competitive discourse of Holocaust uniqueness and counter-uniqueness with their overshadowing geopolitical stakes and unsatisfactory methodological implications? Showing that the underlying bone of ...
Title:Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism: An introduction
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; HAUPT, Heinz-GerhardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Research on political violence occurs in waves, generally corresponding to the successive swells of violence that in many ways define modern society. Critically, this violence is characterized as much by diversity as by ...
Title:La città piu artigiana d'Italia: Firenze 1861-1929
Author(s):PELLEGRINO, AnnaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Percorsi di vita, fortune imprenditoriali, ristrutturazioni urbanistiche, aggregazioni associative, conflitti politici e sociali, compongono la storia del nuovo artigianato urbano fiorentino: caso singolare di una formazione ...
Title:Ciemna strona panstw narodowych: czystki etniczne w nowoczesnej Europie
Author(s):THER, PhilippDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Niezaleznie od tego, czy czystki etniczne traktujemy jako jedna z najwazniejszych cech, odrózniajacych wiek ubiegly od poprzednich (stulecie wypedzen), czy za wazniejsza uznamy role USA (American Century), totalitaryzmy, ...
Title:Bridging the Baltic Sea: Networks of resistance and opposition during the Cold War era
Author(s):STÖCKER, Lars FredrikDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Located at the point of intersection of Northern, Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic Sea Region has historically been a setting of an, at times, vivid exchange between the shores of the small inland sea. Challenging ...
Title:The Unexplored Giant: Use histories of Italian oratorio around 1700
Author(s):VAN DER LINDEN, HuubDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The musical genre of Italian oratorio—unacted, sung drama in two parts on a hagiographic, biblical, or moral plot—witnessed a great boom of interest in the priod around years around 1900 and the decades around 1700. During ...
Title:The Jews of Modern Egypt: Schools, family, and the making of an imagined bourgeoise, 1880s-1950s
Author(s):MICCOLI, DarioDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation will investigate the emergence of an Egyptian Jewish bourgeoisie and its multi-layered imaginary in the period that goes from the 1880s up to the 1950s. More precisely, the research will aim to clarify ...