Title:Genocide and the Terror of History
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores how and why the ‘terror of history’ is an inescapable feature of modernity as it unfolds in historical reality as opposed to tidy sociological theories. For the ‘small nations’ and their disaporas ...
Title:German volunteers in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento 1834-70
Author(s):GÖHDE, Ferdinand NicolasDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Between 1834 and 1870, Germans participated in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento in the ranks of both Mazzini and Garibaldi and of the Pope and Francis II of Naples. While acknowledging the difficulty in ...
Title:Gestrandetes Flaggschiff. Die Universität der Völkerfreundschaft in Moskau
Author(s):RUPPRECHT, TobiasDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2010. This showpiece of Soviet internationalism cultivated the ideal of being ideologically neutral and rendering pure development assistance. ...
Title:Giulio Einaudi in esilio
Author(s):MUNARI, TommasoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Shortly after the armistice of 8 September 1943, the Italian publisher Giulio Einaudi (1912-1999), like many other anti-Fascists, fled his country and took refuge in Switzerland, settling in Lausanne. During those same ...
Title:Global Trends: Gender studies in Europe and the US
Author(s):CALVI, GiuliaDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article discusses the benefits and challenges of transnational approaches for modern European history. It reconstructs the origins of a particular Anglo-German entanglement: the meat essence OXO, originally a German ...
Title:Globalization and Nationalism in Latin America, c.1750-1950
Author(s):GOEBEL, Thomas MichaelDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The relationship between globalization and nationalism in Latin America is neither linear nor purely dialectical; in fact, it provides an almost ideal portrait of the periodic blurring of the two over time. This article ...
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 ...