Browsing HEC Theses by Title

Title:Between spirit and matter : an ethnographic history of British zoology and zoologists, ca. 1660-1800 Author(s):JORGENSEN, Kirsten WintherDate:2003Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2003Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title:Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla: The autonomous movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s Author(s):VAN DER STEEN, BartDate:2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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, PabloDate:2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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 the 'imperial mystique' : empire and national identity in the Portuguese Estado Novo (c. 1930-1951) Author(s):GONÇALVES, MárciaDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Whilst being a period of consolidation for the Portuguese right-wing dictatorship known as Estado Novo, the 1930s and 1940s were marked by geopolitical change and major redefinition of mental maps about colonial order. ...

Title:Beyond utopianism and relativism: History in the plural in the work of Reinhart Koselleck Author(s):OLSEN, NiklasDate:2009Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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:Biographie de Nicola Bombacci : du réformisme au révolutionnarisme (1879-1924) Author(s):NOIRET, Serge EUI affiliated

Date:1985Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1985Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title:Blasphemy, Secularisation and Multiculturalism: A study of the Rushdie affair, the Theo van Gogh affair and the Mohammad caricature crisis Author(s):NIELSEN, Anne MarkDate:2010Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis examines secularisation theories and explores the question of their capability to capture and explain contemporary conflicts in Europe centred on the space and role for, primarily Muslims, religion in the public ...

Title:The body beautiful and the beauty of nation : representing gender and modernity (Buenos Aires 1918-1939) Author(s):TOSSOUNIAN, CeciliaDate:2010Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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:Borders and belonging : migration and the Swedish nation 1890-1914 Author(s):BERGSTRÖM, LouiseDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis studies the consequences of turn of the twentieth century migration on Swedish national developments. It pays particular attention to the introduction of a reform programme of internal colonisation and the ...

Title:'Born to the common welfare': Pieter Plockhoy's quest for a Christian life (c.1620-1664) Author(s):LOOIJESTEIJN, HenkDate:2009Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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:A bridge to the schism : Edinoverie, Russian Orthodoxy, and the ritual formation of confessions, 1800-1918 Author(s):WHITE, James MatthewDate:2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Between 1800 and 1918, the Russian Orthodox Church attempted to re-unite the Old Believer schism with Russian Orthodoxy by means of Edinoverie. This was a uniate movement that would allow schismatic converts to retain their ...

Title:Bridging Politics and Science: The Concept of Social Engineering in Sweden and the USA, Circa 1890-1950 Author(s):MARKLUND, CarlDate:2008Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2008Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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:1999Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1999Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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 ...

Title:British perceptions of the Indian landscape, 1750-1830 Author(s):LANCASTER, James PeterDate:1997Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1997Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title:The British-German fight over dismantling : the removal of industrial plants as reparations after the Second World War and its political repercussions Author(s):TOLLEFSEN, Trond OveDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The programme of dismantling German factories for reparations caused the biggest crisis in the relationship between British and the Germans during the apost-Second World War occupation years. By 1949, the peak year for ...

Title:Bureaucrats, generals and the domestic use of military troops : patterns of civil-military co-operation concerning maintenance of public order in French and Prussian industrial areas, 1889-1914 Author(s):JOHANSEN, AnjaDate:1999Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1999Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The purpose of the thesis is to understand the role of the army in the management of civil conflicts within the 'democratic' republican system in France and the 'semiabsolutist' and 'militaristic' Prussian system. In both ...

Title:Bürger und Spiel : Gesellschaftsspiele im deutschen Bürgertum zwischen 1750 und 1850 Author(s):KUHME, DorotheaDate:1995Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1995Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title:A business approach to transatlantic migration: The introduction of steam-shipping on the North Atlantic and its impact on the European Exodus 1840-1914 Author(s):FEYS, TorstenDate:2008Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2008Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Why, yet another study on the long 19th century European mass-migration movement to the US, when during the last decade migration historians have encouraged a shift away from the Atlanto-centrism and Modernization-centrism ...

Title:Business, community, and ethnic identity : the Greek merchants of Livorno, 1700-1900 Author(s):VLAMI, DespinaDate:1996Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1996Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization