Title:The Rise of Old Age Insurance in a Peripheral Economy, Spain 1908-1966
Author(s):ELU-TERÁN, AlexanderDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims at understanding the origins, evolution and economic meaning of public pensions, by looking at the particular case of Spain during the first two thirds of the twentieth century. The only way of adequately ...
Title:Russian geopolitical utopias in comparative perspective, 1880-1914
Author(s):SUSLOV, MikhailDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The subject of the thesis is Russian geopolitical utopias in a comparative perspective. Geopolitical utopias are understood as utopias, representing comprehensive projects of the improvement of a country’s geopolitical ...
Title:Siberian bosses : elite formation and legitimization in Russia from a regional perspective (1991-2004)
Author(s):BARA, AnnaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The political power to direct society is legitimate only when it expresses the identity of society and is attached to social values and norms. The problem is that, in Russia, the demolition of the Communist ideology and ...
Title:Slave Stories: Gender, Representation, and the Court in the Danish West Indies, 1780's-1820s
Author(s):SIMONSEN, GunvorDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study examines conceptions about money, its value, and management in the works of Islamic and Christian scholars in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean from a comparative perspective. By including both ...