Title:Becoming a subject : political prisoners in Greece in the Civil War, 1945-1950
Author(s):VOGLIS, PolymerisDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Voglis examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. He asks what ...
Title:Beneath Moral Economy: Informal assistance in early 20th century Finland
Author(s):SAARITSA, SakariDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The study concerns informal assistance between households as a form of social security in early 20th century Finland. Its sources consist of oral histories, tax, demographic and welfare records and household budgets. ...
Title:Between intransigence and Nationalism. The image of "the Jew" in La Civiltà Cattolica, 1850-1903
Author(s):LEBOVITCH DAHL, José DavidDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation addresses the problem of the function of Catholic anti-Jewish propaganda in the second half of the nineteenth century as well as the question of the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the formation of ...
Title:Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla: The autonomous movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s
Author(s):VAN DER STEEN, BartDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The years 1980-1981 witnessed youth revolts all over Western Europe. Influenced by radical politics and punk subculture, youths squatted houses and demanded autonomous, self-managed youth centres and clashed with the police. ...
Title:Beyond Bilateralism: Spanish-Italian relations and the influence of the major powers, 1943-1957
Author(s):DEL HIERRO LECEA, PabloDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of this work is to study Spanish-Italian diplomatic relations in the period 1943-1957. However, and in spite of the fact that the question of Spanish-Italian diplomatic relations between 1943 and 1957 will remain ...
Title:Beyond utopianism and relativism: History in the plural in the work of Reinhart Koselleck
Author(s):OLSEN, NiklasDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study examines the work of the German historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006). Its aim is to provide an inter-textual and contextual interpretation of Koselleck’s scholarly production. While a variety of articles, ...
Title:The body beautiful and the beauty of nation : representing gender and modernity (Buenos Aires 1918-1939)
Author(s):TOSSOUNIAN, CeciliaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This research focuses on the appearance of modern femininity in the mass media of Buenos Aires of the interwar period, showing the diverse range of meanings that the modern young woman phenomenon had in post-war Argentina. ...
Title:'Born to the common welfare': Pieter Plockhoy's quest for a Christian life (c.1620-1664)
Author(s):LOOIJESTEIJN, HenkDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the past two centuries, the study of history has expanded its field of enquiry so that men and women, barely considered of importance in their own day, may now hold scholarly attention far more than their contemporaries ...
Title:Bridging Politics and Science: The Concept of Social Engineering in Sweden and the USA, Circa 1890-1950
Author(s):MARKLUND, CarlDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation aims to problematize the historical concept of “social engineering.” In historiography, social engineering is usually understood as the application of scientific theory to political and social practice. ...
Title:Bridging the Baltic Sea: Networks of resistance and opposition during the Cold War era
Author(s):STÖCKER, Lars FredrikDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Located at the point of intersection of Northern, Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic Sea Region has historically been a setting of an, at times, vivid exchange between the shores of the small inland sea. Challenging ...
Title:Britain and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1945-63 : a metropolitan perspective
Author(s):HEINLEIN, FrankDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Examine the views of the Empire and Commonwealth held by British policy makers during the two decades after World War II, arguing that the institutional framework of the formal and informal empire and the Commonwealth was ...