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 ...