Browsing HEC Theses by Title

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 Mark Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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, Cecilia Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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, Louise Date: 2014 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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, Henk Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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 Matthew Date: 2014 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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, Carl Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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 Fredrik Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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, Frank Date: 1999 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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 Peter Date: 1997 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

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, Anja Date: 1999 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title: Bürger und Spiel : Gesellschaftsspiele im deutschen Bürgertum zwischen 1750 und 1850 Author(s): KUHME, Dorothea Date: 1995 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: 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, Torsten Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: 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, Despina Date: 1996 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title: Bypassing regional identity :a study of identifications and interests in Scottish and Catalan press commentary on European integration, 1973-1993 by Verena Boos Author(s): BOOS, Verena Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title: Cameralism and court :the German discourse on court economy in the 18th century Author(s): BAUER, Volker Date: 1993 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title: Carlo Levi a Firenze e la Firenze di Carlo Levi, (1941-1945) : vita quotidiana e militanza politica dalla guerra alla Liberazione Author(s): BENFANTE, Filippo Date: 2003 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: Questa ricerca nasce dal recente ritrovamento, presso gli eredi del pittore fiorentino Giovanni Colacicchi, di lettere e documenti appartenuti a Carlo Levi, risalenti al periodo in cui il pittore e scrittore torinese tenne ...

Title: Casanova's Histoire de ma vie in Twentieth Century Cinema (Adaptation, Interpretation, Reception from Volkoff to Fellini) Author(s): GUBAREVA, Marita Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: Casanova’s memoirs have inspired an incredible number of books, commentaries, and creative reinterpretations. While the reception of this text in literature has been analyzed in many studies, relatively little attention ...

Title: Chancen und Grenzen wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung im Prozess der Globalisierung : die Kupfermontanregionen Coquimbo (Chile) und Mansfeld (Preussen/Deutschland) im Vergleich 1830-1901 Author(s): ZACHÄUS, Alf Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: no abstract available

Title: Charitas versus eros : il matrimonio, la chiesa e i suoi giudici nella Venezia del Rinascimento (1420-1545) by Cecilia Cristellon Author(s): CRISTELLON, Cecilia Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title: The Charte constitutionnelle of 1814 and Süddeutscher Frühkonstitutionalismus: Transfer and reception of 'Monarchical Constitutionalism' in Post-Napoleonic Europe Author(s): PRUTSCH, Markus J. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization Abstract: The objectives of this enquiry are essentially concerned with reaching a better understanding of the course, form and intensity of constitutional transfer by analysing the transnational impact (or perhaps ‘non-impact’) of ...

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