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 ...
Title:The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: The ‘uniqueness of the Holocaust’ and the question of genocide
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyzes the debate about the controversial Canadian Museum for Human Rights by reconstructing the efforts to establish a government-sponsored Holocaust museum from the late 1990s. This history reveals that ...
Title:Case e contrade a Siena in età moderna
Author(s):SAVELLI, AuroraDate:2003Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The article examines a number of statutes of (of the 17th and 18th centuries) of Siena's contradas, represented as universitates habitorum. Urban inhabitants, natives and building owners could take part in contrada meetings ...
Title:Catching up in Europe: Finland's Convergence with Sweden and the EU15
Author(s):KOKKINEN, Arto; JALAVA, Jukka; HJERPPE, Riitta; HANNIKAINEN, MattiDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Finland is an obvious case of economic convergence in the 20th century. Is this
due to the fact that the Finnish industrialisation phase started late compared with
Sweden and the EU15 average? In this article the Finnish ...
Title:Changing Visions of the World Sugar Market in the Great Depression
Author(s):VON GRAEVENITZ, Fritz GeorgDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The interwar period is usually characterised as a prime example of disintegration and national antagonism, and even claimed by some to be the 'end of globalisation'. This article shows, however, that first attempts towards ...