Title:The Machine of State in Germany - The Case of Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (1717-1771)
Author(s):NOKKALA, Ere PerttiDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this article is to explore the different uses of the state-machine metaphor in Germany during the 1750s and 1760s. It focuses on the debate around the ideal state and especially on the views of one central writer, ...
Title:Making Use of the Past: The role of historians in Baltic Sea Region building
Author(s):GRZECHNIK, MartaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper I analyze how the histories of the Baltic Sea region have been constructed and used in the post-Cold War period. After 1989, historians assumed the role of region-builders. Historical narratives were constructed ...
Title:Market integration and market efficiency. The case of 19th century Italy
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines market integration in Italy in the 19th century, focusing on wheat. Wheat prices converged well before political Unification (1859–1861) but the process halted during the 1860s only to resume in the ...
Title:Market Power on the Colonial Frontier? Evidence From Sao Paulo 1800-1840
Author(s):FEDERICO, Giovanni; PAIXAO, RicardoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Economists often assume that agricultural markets in history were competitive, and all producers received the same price. in contrast, most agricultural historians deem prices to differ among agents, according to their ...
Title:Media and politics
Author(s):SEETHALER, Josef; MELISCHEK, Gabriele; LENGAUER, Günther; KARMASIN, Matthias; BEYRL, Maria; PERLOT, Flooh; BäHR, Holger; PRUTSCH, Markus J.Date:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:Memory, History and the Classical Tradition
Author(s):WHITLING, FrederickDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Memory' is often confused and mistaken for myth; this is in turn connected with the widespread use of mistaking collective mythology and common myth for the idea of a 'collective memory'. This essay discusses memory and ...
Title:Moses and Faruq: The Jews and the study of history in interwar Egypt 1920s-1940s
Author(s):MICCOLI, DarioDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:It is often argued that Egyptian Jews did not participate much in the cultural and political life of monarchical Egypt. Even though this is partly true in comparison to other Jews in the Middle East such as the Iraqis, one ...
Title:Moving Histories. The Jews and Modernity in Alexandria 1881-1919
Author(s):MICCOLI, DarioDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This essay will investigate the history of Alexandria from 1881 to 1919, proposing a re-definition of modernity vis-à-vis the city’s Jews. In the first part I will introduce a case of blood libel that occurred in 1881, the ...