Title:Anthropological race psychology 1820-1945: a common European system of ethnic identity narratives
Author(s):MCMAHON, RichardDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines ethnic stereotypes in biological race classification of Europeans between the 1830s and 1940s as part of political discourse on national identity. Anthropologists linked physical-psychological types ...
Title:Antonio and Shylock: Credit and Trust in France, C. 1680-C. 1780
Author(s):FONTAINE, LaurenceDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Previous work has shown how credit permeated society from top to bottom and in Ancien Regime dictionnaires, definitions of the word credit insist on the fact that credit was based on power, gift, or obligation (with the ...
Title:Aristocracy and litigation in the seventeenth century: a transnational space for family lawsuits
Author(s):TERRASA-LOZANO, AntonioDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this article is to show how the composite and international domains and fiefs of early modern Spanish Monarchy aristocracy allowed noble households to become a type of transnational juridical space. From the ...
Title:Assessing the ‘Fascist Filter’ and its Legacy
Author(s):WHITLING, FrederickDate:2007Type of Publication:OtherAbstract:The extensive physical alterations to the city of Rome in the Fascist period have arguably created what I refer to as a ‘Fascist filter’, which will be tentatively discussed here. This paper investigates perceptions of ...
Title:The Axis Occupation and Civil War Changing Trends in Greek Historiography, 1941'2002
Author(s):ANTONIOU, GeorgiosDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the literature on the Greek Civil War and evaluates the changing trends on the field. Based on over 1,800 entries, it reassesses and describes the qualitative characteristics of the literature, ...
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: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: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: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:Bodies That (Don't) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration
Author(s):AHMAD, Ali NobilDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper explores the importance of sexuality in international labour migration from Pakistan, paying special attention to masculine desire and subjectivity (driving forces in sending contexts), and to the bodily experience ...