Title:NATO: The management of diversity
Author(s):ROMERO, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The image of a harmonious Atlantic alliance occasionally riven by acute crises was the actors’ own perception, and recurring fear, throughout its Cold War history. A long-term historical assessment, however, emphasizes a ...
Title:Negotiating sovereignty: the peace treaty of Munster, 1648
Author(s):MANZANO BAENA, LauraDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Historical political entities differ in their understanding of sovereignty. This article studies how conceptualizations of sovereignty clashed during the peace negotiations between the Spanish Monarchy and the United ...
Title:Neuverzauberung im Gestus der Wissenschaftlichkeit
Author(s):LIPPHARDT, Veronika; PATEL, Kiran KlausDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Taking the example of research on biological diversity in the 20th century, this article analyzes the social practices that are entailed in the emergence, stabilization, and circulation of scientific knowledge. It stresses ...
Title:O'Gorman, lecteur d’Acosta
Author(s):DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ne serait-ce que du point de vue de sa réception, La invención de América est la partie la plus marquante de l’œuvre d’O’Gorman. Cet ouvrage synthétique, bref, marque l’aboutissement d’un long et patient travail d’analyse ...
Title:Organizing Diversity: Determining National Categories in the Russian Empire and the USSR (1897-1939)
Author(s):CADIOT, JulietteDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Recording statistics on nationalities in the Russian Empire and the USSR was thought to be an especially difficult task till the late 1930s. By studying preparations for the general censuses of 1897, 1926 and 1939, we can ...