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Title: Making Sense of Constitutional Monarchism in Post-Napoleonic France and Germany Author(s): PRUTSCH, Markus J. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: The collapse of the Napoleonic order in 1814 symbolised a victory over revolutionary principles, yet it was impossible to turn the clock back and negate the legacy of the Revolution and the Napoleonic age. Could monarchical ...
Title: Beyond the Public Sphere: Opinions, publics, spaces in early modern Europe Author(s): ROSPOCHER, Massimo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: For fifty years Habermas’s ideal-typical model of the public sphere has been the catalyst for historiographical debate about public opinion and been recognized as an interpretative paradigm of the development of Western ...
Title: Storia internazionale dell’età contemporanea Author(s): ROMERO, Federico Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: A survey of international politics and visions of the international system from the late 19th century to the present. Interweaving international, transnational and economic history, it recounts the mains trend and events ...
Title: The Rise of Fiscal States: A global history, 1500-1914 Author(s): YUN-CASALILLA, Bartolome; O’BRIEN Patrick K.; COMÍN COMÍN, Francisco Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country ...
Title: Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe: Comparing cultures of remembrance, c. 1790-1840 Author(s): BOUWERS, Eveline G. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Drawing on a wide range of sources, Eveline G. Bouwers probes the construction and reception of remembrance cultures across early-nineteenth-century Europe. By way of an in-depth analysis of public pantheons (i.e. buildings ...
Title: El amigo alemán: El SPD y el PSOE de la dictadura a la democracia Author(s): MUÑOZ SÁNCHEZ, Antonio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: A mediados de los años sesenta, el SPD decidió asumir hacia la dictadura de Franco una estrategia pragmática y posibilista. En su opinión, la política de aislamiento que defendía la Internacional Socialista desde hacía ...
Title: Mass Violence and the End of the Dutch Colonial Empire in Indonesia Author(s): LUTTIKHUS, Bart; MOSES, A. Dirk Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: A recent strand of research in genocide studies emphasizes the intimate connections and the porous boundary between imperial and colonial violence and genocidal practices. So far, the British and German settler colonies ...
Title: Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing Contradictions Author(s): O'MALLEY, Aidan Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: In the 1980s, Field Day brought together some of the most important names in Irish artistic life—Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, David Hammond and Thomas Kilroy—to articulate a cultural ...
Title: Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice Author(s): CATTANEO, Angelo Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining ...
Title: L’inconscient au paradis : Comment les catholiques ont reçu la psychanalyse Author(s): DESMAZIERES, Agnès Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: En fondant la psychanalyse, Freud provoque les catholiques dans leurs convictions religieuses et morales. Après lui, l’Église peut-elle nier toute jouissance dans l’acte sexuel ? Parler de péché est-il source de culpabilité ...
Title: La dette des familles. Femmes, lignage et patrimoine à Florence aux XIVe et XVe siècles Author(s): CHABOT, Isabelle Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Pour que la maison des pères fonctionne à la perfection, seuls les hommes doivent se succéder dans la continuité temporelle de la famille et la transmission des biens patrimoniaux. Les femmes sont et ne sont pas dans la ...
Title: I verbali del mercoledì. Riunioni editoriali Einaudi 1943-1952 Author(s): MUNARI, Tommaso Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Quando ormai anche le stagioni sembrano aver perso la loro naturale cadenza, a ritmare il passaggio del tempo, sopravvivono, implacabili e a regolari intervalli, le polemiche sulla casa editrice Einaudi. L’occasione può ...
Title: Staats-Opern? Der Wandel von Staatlichkeit und die Opernkrisen in Berlin, London und Paris am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts Author(s): ZALFEN, Sarah Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Im 20. Jahrhundert wurden europaweit aus Hofopern, Bürgeropern und kommerziellen Opernunternehmen Staatsopern. Sie waren subventionierte und institutionalisierte Teile staatlicher Strukturen, staatlich verantwortetes ...
Title: Tatort: Versöhnung. Aktion Sühnezeichen in der BRD und in der DDR und Gedenkdienste in Österreich Author(s): LEGERER, Anton Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Versöhnung - ein schwer fassbares, ursprünglich der Auseinandersetzung mit dem jüdischen Gott entstammendes Ritual - findet in den deutschen Nachfolgestaaten des Dritten Reiches und in Österreich konkrete Umsetzung: Die ...
Title: Crises and Opportunities: The shaping of modern finance Author(s): CASSIS, Youssef Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: As the world's political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, this book asks the question: have financial crises presented opportunities to rebuild the financial system? Examining ...
Title: Tschernobyl und Frankreich. Die Debatte um die Auswirkungen des Reaktorunfalls im Kontext der französischen Atompolitik und Elitenkultur Author(s): KALMBACH, Karena Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Die französische Debatte um die Auswirkungen von Tschernobyl nahm ihren Ausgangspunkt in einem politischen Skandal: 1986 verzichtete Frankreichs Regierung auf Schutzmaßnahmen, da die französischen Nuklearexperten den ...
Title: Des esclaves énergétiques : réflexions sur le changement climatique histoire environnementale Author(s): MOUHOT, Jean-Francois Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Ce livre explore les liens historiques et les similarités entre esclavage et utilisation contemporaine des énergies fossiles et montre comment l’histoire peut nous aider à lutter contre le changement climatique. Il décrit ...
Title: Argentina's Partisan Past: Nationalism and the politics of history Author(s): GOEBEL, Thomas Michael Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Argentina’s Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, the spread and the use of understandings of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive ...
Title: "A Splendid Return": The intellectual reception of the Catholic social doctrine in Hungary (1931-1944) Author(s): PETRAS, Eva Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: The inception of the encyclical writing of the popes started in the eighteenth century with Benedict XIVs first encyclical in 1740.1 In the past nearly 270 years a coherent papal social doctrine has been developed around ...
Title: Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants Author(s): VANNESTE, Tijl Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. Trust was an important element within this cross-cultural network ...