Title:Negotiating Europe: EU promotion of Europeanness and non-institutional actors since the 1950s
Author(s):CALLIGARO, OrianeDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The concept of Europe is a strong symbolic underpinnings of European integration. Europe functions as a mobilizing metaphor, a sign of recognition that indicates belonging to a community in formation. At the institutional ...
Title:The new discursive formation of literature under communist rule: From the silver age to socialist realism
Author(s):VIRBAN, FloareaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The primary aim of this thesis is to question how, and the extent to which, the implementation of Communist rule in Russia influenced the new discursive formation of literature. The latter refers to the complex process of ...
Title:O clero catedralício português e os equilíbrios sociais do poder : (1654-1670)
Author(s):SILVA, Hugo Ribeiro daDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:O estudo que me proponho realizar, centrado no caso português, pretende perceber de que modo o clero capitular participou no processo de alteração do campo dos poderes que, iniciado no século XVI, se prolongou pela centúria ...
Title:Official Policy and Local Responses: Jews in Wrocław and L'viv: a comparative perspective, 1945 to 1970s
Author(s):KAZEJAK, IzabelaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation examines the process of re-establishment of Jewish communities in two cities: in Wroclaw, a city that passed after 1945 from Germany to Poland, and in L’viv, a city that passed from Poland to Soviet ...
Title:Omitted Encounters: The early political thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss
Author(s):KEEDUS, LiisiDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:It is my contention that a historically and thus philosophically accurate understanding of Arendt’s and Strauss’s projects cannot be gained without knowledge of the debates and controversies that shaped their early thought. ...
Title:On Finland's Economic Growth and Convergence with Sweden and the EU15 in the 20th Century
Author(s):KOKKINEN, ArtoDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Finland is one of the few examples of poor countries’ absolute GDP per capita convergence in the 20th century: One hundred years ago it was a poor agrarian country with GDP per capita less than half of that of the United ...
Title:Ottomans into Illyrians : passages to nationhood in 20th century Albania
Author(s):JAZEXHIU, OlsiDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation surveys specific episodes in the process of Albanian national formation. Its aim is to contest the official narrative of Albanian historiography which portrays the creation of the Albanian state and the ...