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, ...
Title:Heights, Calories and Welfare: A New Perspective on Italian Industrialization, 1854–191
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The height of Italian conscripts was increasing throughout the second half of the 19th century due primarily to an increases in food intake, but also to an improvement in sanitary conditions, and diffusion of primary ...
Title:Hélène Temerson (1896-1977) : parcours d’une universitaire juive d’Europe de l’Est
Author(s):FALEK, PascaleDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Cet article analyse le parcours d’Hélène Temerson, représentatif en de nombreux aspects de la deuxième génération de femmes universitaires d’Europe de l’Est en Belgique. Les sources la concernant permettent non seulement ...
Title:A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition
Author(s):ANDERSSON, AxelDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into ...