Title:Portraits of the Nation : stamps, coins and banknotes in Belgium and Switzerland, 1880-1945
Author(s):SCHWARZENBACH, AlexisDate:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Portraits of the Nation offers a fascinating insight into the construction and development of national identity in two multilingual countries—Belgium and Switzerland. This book not only shows that multilingualism was no ...
Title:A precarious life : East European female Jewish students in interwar Belgium
Author(s):FALEK, PascaleDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:More than one thousand East European Jewish women came to Belgium during the interwar years to pursue higher education. Who were these women? What political, economic and social developments caused these young women to ...
Title:Property Restitution and Collective Memories in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989
Author(s):TYSZKA, StanisławDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis examines the politics of memory in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 in relation to restitution of nationalized property as a measure of post-communist transitional justice. The dominant historical ...
Title:Public pantheons and exemplary men: A journey in the European imagination, c. 1790-1840
Author(s):BOUWERS, Eveline G.Date:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis argues that a European cultural history existed in those years that have been considered as the dawn of the ‘Age of Nationalism’. Although, early nineteenth-century pantheons can superficially be divided in two ...
Title:A quarta porta do inferno : o clero e a luxúria no espaço luso-americano (1640-1750)
Author(s):GOUVEIA, Jaime Ricardo TeixeiraDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Structured in seven chapters, this dissertation has a well defined scientific purpose: to study the lustful behaviors of the clergy that, according to Liguori, gives access to the fourth door of Hell, and also to inquire ...