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Title:Competitive strategies, commercial organization and the growth of marketing services : Europe : 19th and 20th centuries Author(s):ROMEI, ValentinaDate:2006Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2006Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:The concept of the Baltic Sea region as a historical region : an analysis of the process of constructing narratives about the region's past Author(s):GRZECHNIK, MartaDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This PhD thesis is a study of the development of the concept of the Baltic Sea region as a historical region in the Polish and Swedish historiographies in the interwar and post-Cold War periods. Taking as the point of ...
Title:Confidential, secret and prompt : intelligence activities across the Ottoman Empire during the Reign of Abdulhamid II, 1876-1909 Author(s):AKINCI, Arda Date:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis analyzes one of the most disputed subjects of late Ottoman historiography: namely secret intelligence activities and state espionage during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II (r.1876- 1909). So far, the topic ...
Title:A conflict of identities : personal identification in revolutionary and Napoleonic Italy (1796-1814) Author(s):POGGI, Stefano Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This is a study of changes in the conceptions, procedures and practices related to personal identification in the Napoleonic satellite states of northern Italy (the Cisalpine republics, the Italian republic, and the kingdom ...
Title:Conflicting words : political thought and culture in the Dutch Republic and in the Spanish monarchy around the peace of Munster (1648) Author(s):MANZANO BAENA, LauraDate:2007Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The aim of this dissertation is to study the influence exerted by the different political cultures in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Low Countries on these peace talks and how they contributed to delaying the solution ...
Title:Consumer Behaviour and International Trade in the Western Mediterranean: South-Eastern Spain in a trans-national perspective (1730/1808) Author(s):PÉREZ-GARCÍA, ManuelDate:2011Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:How to focus the analysis of the birth of mass consumption society has been a scholarly obsession over the last few decades. This thesis suggests that an analytical approach must be taken in studies on consumption paying ...
Title:The Contemporary Klezmer Revival in Kraków and Berlin as a Jewish / non-Jewish Encounter Author(s):WALIGORSKA, MagdalenaDate:2009Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The present study addresses the most important mediations of klezmer which have not been given attention in the existing scholarship, mapping new functions and meanings ascribed to klezmer music, the representations this ...
Title:Contending for Laurels : Catharine Macaulay : history and feminism in eighteen-century, England Author(s):ROBINS, WendyDate:2011Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Catharine Macaulay (1731-91) was a significant female writer of the mid to late eighteenth century who is now becoming a figure of scholarly interest. Two recent monographs by Bridget Hill, (1992) and Kate Davies, (2005), ...
Title:Contentious orientalism : Bengali intellectuals at the Asiatic Society of Bengal circa 1829-circa 1885 Author(s):IKHLEF, HakimDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded by Sir William Jones in Calcutta (nowadays Kolkata) in 1784. It is a learned society which was to carry investigation which bounds would be the geographical limits of Asia and ...
Title:Contested authority : master and servant in Copenhagen and Christiania, 1750-1850 Author(s):ØSTHUS, HanneDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis investigates the relationship between masters and domestic servants in Copenhagen and Christiania between 1750 and 1850. Living and working together, their relationship was structured around a contract between ...
Title:Continuity and change in female identity : the experience of women in Edinburgh 1919-39 Author(s):ORR, KatherineDate:1996Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1996Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:Contra cheias e tempestades : consciência do território, debate parlamentar e políticas de águas e de florestas em Portugal 1852-1886 Author(s):JOANAZ DE MELO, Maria Cristina DiasDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:É objectivo deste trabalho discutir a génese das políticas de águas e de florestas em Portugal na segunda metade do século XIX. Pretende-se demonstrar que a construção do objecto político de ordenamento de águas e de ...
Title:Conventualismo femenino y expansion contrarreformista en el siglo XVII : el Carmelo Descalzo Espanol en Francia y Flandes (1600-1650) Author(s):TORRES SANCHEZ, ConcepcionDate:1997Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1997Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Esta tesis es un intento de mostrar el proceso de expansión de una orden religiosa femenina en la primera mitad del siglo XVII. La idea principal es establecer una aproximación al mundo de la clausura femenina en el siglo ...
Title:The Cornerstones of modern government : maps, weights and measures and census in liberal Portugal (19th century) Author(s):BRANCO, Rui Miguel CarvalhinhoDate:2005Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2005Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:Corpus communismi mysticum :history, politics and continuity in communist Hungary Author(s):APOR, PeterDate:2002Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2002Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:Cosmopolitan aristocracy and the diffusion of baroque culture : Cultural transfer from Spain to Austria in the Seventeenth century Author(s):LINDORFER, Bianca MariaDate:2009Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This study aims to reveal traces of Spanish cultural influences on the seventeenth-century Austrian Habsburg monarchy, or to be more precise, on courtly and aristocratic culture. The focus is however less on the ruling ...
Title:A cosmopolitan republican in the French revolution : the political thought of Anacharsis Cloots Author(s):POULSEN, Frank Ejby Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Republicanism has been on scholars’ research agenda since the 1970s, and several studies on eighteenth-century French republicanism have linked it to the Atlantic republican tradition. A central question that has puzzled ...
Title:Cossacks and gauchos : myths of masculinity in the political struggles of the River Plate and Ukraine, 1830s through 1840s Author(s):HEN-KONARSKI, Tomasz Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:In my dissertation I study the ways in which the literary figures of free males on horseback, the Cossacks and the gauchos, were endowed with political meanings in the River Plate and Ukraine of the 1830s and 1840s. My ...
Title:Creating an 'international mind'? : the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Europe, 1911-1940 Author(s):WEGENER, JensDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:How do non-governmental actors exert power beyond the confines of nation-states? Examining the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) and its network of European foreign policy elites, I argue that non-governmental ...
Title:Creating ephemeral triumphs :celebration and politics in the marriage of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy and Catherine of Austria (1585) Author(s):ALVAREZ GONZALEZ, MartaDate:2003Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2003Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis