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 ...
Title:Charm Procedure in the XVIII Century: Restoring an order or recapturing innocence?
Author(s):COHEN, DeborahDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In eighteenth-century France, there were almost no theoretical evolutions in the judicial field. Yet, ways of judging differed between the beginning and the end of the century. This paper is based on a close reading of ...
Title:Classification, Interdisciplinarity, and the Study of Science
Author(s):SZOSTAK, RickDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Purpose - This paper aims to respond to the 2005 paper by Hjorland and Nissen Pedersen by suggesting that an exhaustive and universal classification of the phenomena that scholars study, and the methods and theories they ...
Title:Collaboration in Wartime France, 1940-1944
Author(s):LEMMES, FabianDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper deals with political as well as economic collaboration. It conceptualises collaboration as a form of cooperation with the occupying power that is - at least to a certain extent - voluntary and goes beyond the ...
Title:Conspiracies and Visions of Conspiracies in France and Italy After the Second World War
Author(s):GIRARD, PascalDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The existing literature concerning conspiracy and conspiracy theories is particularly huge, especially if considering political and social sciences. However, many works revealed some weaknesses, such as the importance of ...