Title:Collective Identities, Integration and Resistance during the Scanian War 1676-1679
Author(s):VADENBRING, JoannaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the first part of this thesis I will take into consideration the development of the snaphane movement from the end of the Scandinavian (Kalmar) Union until the last snaphane trials at the beginning of the 18th century. ...
Title:Commercial Culture and Merchant Networks: Eighteenth-century diamond traders in global history
Author(s):VANNESTE, TijlDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In discarding the idea of a geographically centralized origin of globalization, the emphasis on human interaction becomes ever more important. World history is not a history of the evolutionary path towards a unified world, ...
Title:The Contemporary Klezmer Revival in Kraków and Berlin as a Jewish / non-Jewish Encounter
Author(s):WALIGORSKA, MagdalenaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The present study addresses the most important mediations of klezmer which have not been given attention in the existing scholarship, mapping new functions and meanings ascribed to klezmer music, the representations this ...
Title:Contending for Laurels: Catharine Macaulay. History and feminism in eighteen-century, England
Author(s):ROBINS, WendyDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Catharine Macaulay (1731-91) was a significant female writer of the mid to late eighteenth century who is now becoming a figure of scholarly interest. Two recent monographs by Bridget Hill, (1992) and Kate Davies, (2005), ...