Title:Beck back in the 19th century: towards a genealogy of risk society
Author(s):FRESSOZ, Jean-BaptisteDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article aims at historicizing the 'risk society' thesis (Ulrich Beck). I first present an important book by Eugène Huzar, La Fin du monde par la science (Paris: Dentu, 1855). The author reflects upon the global ...
Title:Becoming a Subject : Political prisoners during the Greek Civil War
Author(s):VOGLIS, PolymerisDate:2002Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Voglis (New York U.) examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. ...
Title:Becoming a subject : political prisoners in Greece in the Civil War, 1945-1950
Author(s):VOGLIS, PolymerisDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Voglis examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. He asks what ...
Title:Beneath Moral Economy: Informal assistance in early 20th century Finland
Author(s):SAARITSA, SakariDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The study concerns informal assistance between households as a form of social security in early 20th century Finland. Its sources consist of oral histories, tax, demographic and welfare records and household budgets. ...
Title:Bengali raw silk, the East India Company and the European global market, 1770-1833
Author(s):DAVINI, RobertoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In 1769, the East India Company decided to transform the Bengali silk industry, and introduced Piedmontese reeling technologies and spatially concentrated working practices into the area. Although Bengali raw silk reeled ...
Title:BENGASI REVISITED: A Cdrom
Author(s):BARATIERI, DanielaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:It all began in Autumn 2000 with Luisa Passerini’s EUI workshop Films as
Sources for Cultural history: Case Studies from 1930s to 1950s. Thanks to all those
who contributed to this forum. Thanks particularly to Luisa for ...
Title:Between Assimilation and Emigration: Jews in Wroclaw from the Second World War to 1968
Author(s):KAZEJAK, IzabelaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article presents the results of research conducted in Wroclaw in 2006 under the sponsorship of the Fritz - Stern Scholarship. These results formed the basis for a Master of Arts thesis defended in 2007 in the department ...
Title:Between intransigence and Nationalism. The image of "the Jew" in La Civiltà Cattolica, 1850-1903
Author(s):LEBOVITCH DAHL, José DavidDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation addresses the problem of the function of Catholic anti-Jewish propaganda in the second half of the nineteenth century as well as the question of the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the formation of ...