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Title: Katholiken im Kalten Krieg : Ein Beitrag zur politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1957-1983 Author(s): GERSTER, Daniel Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The thesis examines how Catholics in West Germany participated in public discourses on war and peace during the major period of the Cold War (1957-1983). As a result, the study provides new insights into the transformations ...

Title: A precarious life : East European female Jewish students in interwar Belgium Author(s): FALEK, Pascale Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: 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: Siberian bosses : elite formation and legitimization in Russia from a regional perspective (1991-2004) Author(s): BARA, Anna Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: 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: Across the Atlantic: Chocolate consumption, imperial political economies and the making of a Spanish imaginary (1700-1800) Author(s): FATTACCIU, Irene Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Through a variegated corpus of sources the present study explores how production, distribution, consumption and ideological/religious/scientific constructions all interacted to promote and sustain the appropriation of ...

Title: Género, Emigración y Movilidad Social en la Expansión Atlántica: Mujeres Españolas en el Perú colonial (1550-1650) Author(s): ALMORZA HIDALGO, Amelia Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This research focuses on the Spanish women involved in the transatlantic emigration to the Viceroyalty of Peru during the period 1550 to 1650. Through the analysis of passenger records, travel’s licenses and personal ...

Title: El Noble Atribulado: Nobleza y teología moral en la Castilla Moderna (C. 1550-C.1650) Author(s): SOSA MAYOR, Igor Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This work is set within the extensive framework of the renewed studies on European nobility and its target is the complex relationship between the Castilian nobility and Catholic moral theology in the period that goes from ...

Title: Agents of Memory in the Making: The Greek war-disabled of WWII Author(s): ROVITHI, Chara Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This dissertation examines the making of the WWII disabled as agents of memory focusing on the experience of mutilation of the specific group of war veterans. A large part of the research is based on oral testimonies, ...

Title: Consumer Behaviour and International Trade in the Western Mediterranean: South-Eastern Spain in a trans-national perspective (1730/1808) Author(s): PEREZ GARCIA, Manuel Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: How to focus the analysis of the birth of mass consumption society has been a scholarly obsession over the last few decades. This thesis suggests that an analytical approach must be taken in studies on consumption paying ...

Title: Property Restitution and Collective Memories in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 Author(s): TYSZKA, Stanisław Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: 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: Idealist-historicist moments : varieties of agency in modern British historical thought before, during and after the Second World War Author(s): SKODO, Admir Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis examines the place of idealism and historicism, interpreted as one complex tradition, in twentieth century British historical thought. It contributes to the intellectual history of modern British historiography ...

Title: Contending for Laurels: Catharine Macaulay. History and feminism in eighteen-century, England Author(s): ROBINS, Wendy Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: 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), ...

Title: Rapporti tra la Repubblica Fiorentina e il Regno d'Ungheria a livello di diplomazia, migrazione umana, reti mercantili e mediazione culturale nell'età del regime oligarchico (1382-1434), che corrisponde al regno di Sigismondo di Lussemburgo (1387-1437) Author(s): PRAJDA, Katalin Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: no abstract available

Title: Leaving Egypt : Greeks and their strategies, 1937-1967 Author(s): NTALACHANIS, Angelos Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This dissertation is an examination of the departure of the Greek population from Egypt from 1937 to 1967 and the various, often contradictory, strategies they adopted concerning not only their departure but also their ...

Title: L'impero di carta : Hugo Blotius, Hofbibliothekar nella Vienna di fine Cinquecento Author(s): MOLINO, Paola Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The thesis deals with the first organisation and uses of the Imperial library in Vienna between 1575 and 1604. At the core of this work there is the cultural and political experience of the first librarian, the Dutch scholar ...

Title: Beyond Bilateralism: Spanish-Italian relations and the influence of the major powers, 1943-1957 Author(s): DEL HIERRO LECEA, Pablo Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The aim of this work is to study Spanish-Italian diplomatic relations in the period 1943-1957. However, and in spite of the fact that the question of Spanish-Italian diplomatic relations between 1943 and 1957 will remain ...

Title: Le métier d'historien during the enlightenment : William Robertson and the writing of the History of America Author(s): PUGLIESE, Ida Federica Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This dissertation seeks to analyse the production of a historical work during the Enlightenment, focussing on the specific case of William Robertson and his masterpiece the History of America (1777). The crux of the research ...

Title: The Italian Risorgimento and the Polish intelligentsia's visions of the nation and national liberation (1848-1871) Author(s): JUREK, Lidia Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis presents an opportunity to look at an important aspect of the genesis of national identity-making in the specific stateless and multicultural context from which Polish nationalism emerged. It sheds additional ...

Title: Entstehung, Soziologie und Semantik des indigenen Journalismus in Algerien in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts Author(s): ZESSIN, Philipp Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: no abstract available

Title: All for the greater glory of Jesus and the salvation of the immortal souls!': German missionary nuns in colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897-1960 Author(s): STORNIG, Katharina Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis, a feminist history of mission in the context of gender, has started on the premise to develop an alternative perspective on the missionary encounter rather than the attempt to enrich existing narratives by ...

Title: La république naturaliste : les collections françaises d'histoire naturelle sous la Révolution. 1789-1804 Author(s): LACOUR, Pierre-Yves Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Charles C. Gillispie saw the metamorphosis of the Jardin du Roi into the Muséum d’histoire naturelle as an “epitome of the French Revolution in botanical microcosm” – in other words, a historical object belonging to the ...

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