Browsing HEC Theses by Title
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Title:"A Babel full of confusion": Politics, literature and the stage during the Arminian controversy, 1610-1630 Author(s):SIERHUIS, FreyaDate:2009Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:No abstract available
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Title:Baghdad railway politics and the socio-economic transformation of the Cukurova Author(s):KAISER, HilmarDate:2001Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2001Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization
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Title:Balancing family and work in Greece, Italy and Spain: a study of the experiences in teachers and doctors careers Author(s):BOZINIS ANDIÑACH, MariaDate:2006Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2006Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization
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Title:Balkan transgressions :representing the figure of the man-woman, 1850s to today Author(s):DJAJIC HORVATH, AleksandraDate:2005Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2005Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization
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Title:Becoming a subject : political prisoners in Greece in the Civil War, 1945-1950 Author(s):VOGLIS, PolymerisDate:1999Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1999Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Voglis examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. He asks what ...
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Title:Becoming president : a political biography of Jomo Kenyatta (1958-1969) Author(s):ANGELO, AnaïsDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Version:Chapter 1 'Jomo Kenyatta’s political imagination' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as a chapter 'Virtues for all, state for no one?' in the book 'African thoughts on colonial and neo-colonial worlds : facets of an intellectual history of Africa' (2015)Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Presidential rule, closely related to personal rule, is a prominent feature of African studies. Nevertheless, the making of presidents has for a long time remained an untold story: few biographies or monographs have explored ... -
Title:Behind the curtains of diplomacy : the household, material culture and networks of French ambassadors in Venice (1550-1610) Author(s):MESOTTEN, LauraDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This dissertation examines the social and material surroundings of French ambassadors stationed in the Venetian Republic between 1550 and 1610. Centred around the activities and experiences of Ambassador François de Noailles ...
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Title:Beneath Moral Economy: Informal assistance in early 20th century Finland Author(s):SAARITSA, SakariDate:2008Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2008Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The study concerns informal assistance between households as a form of social security in early 20th century Finland. Its sources consist of oral histories, tax, demographic and welfare records and household budgets. ...
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Title:Between catholicism and socialism : an interpretation of Polish women's life stories Author(s):SZWAJCOWSKA, JoannaDate:1999Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1999Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization
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Title:Between concord and discord, Juan Luis Vives (1492/1493 – 1540) on language, rhetoric, and politics Author(s):HAVU, Kaarlo JohannesDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis presents a new interpretation of the political dimension of Juan Luis Vives's thought by looking at Vives's reception and appropriation of classical rhetoric in the context of northern humanism. This thesis ...
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Title:Between intransigence and Nationalism. The image of "the Jew" in La Civiltà Cattolica, 1850-1903 Author(s):LEBOVITCH DAHL, José DavidDate:2008Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2008Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This dissertation addresses the problem of the function of Catholic anti-Jewish propaganda in the second half of the nineteenth century as well as the question of the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the formation of ...
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Title:Between spirit and matter : an ethnographic history of British zoology and zoologists, ca. 1660-1800 Author(s):JORGENSEN, Kirsten WintherDate:2003Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2003Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization
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Title:Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla: The autonomous movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s Author(s):VAN DER STEEN, BartDate:2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The years 1980-1981 witnessed youth revolts all over Western Europe. Influenced by radical politics and punk subculture, youths squatted houses and demanded autonomous, self-managed youth centres and clashed with the police. ...
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Title:Beyond bilateralism : Spanish-Italian relations and the influence of the major powers, 1943-1957 Author(s):DEL HIERRO, PabloDate:2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract: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 ...
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Title:Beyond the 'imperial mystique' : empire and national identity in the Portuguese Estado Novo (c. 1930-1951) Author(s):GONÇALVES, MárciaDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Whilst being a period of consolidation for the Portuguese right-wing dictatorship known as Estado Novo, the 1930s and 1940s were marked by geopolitical change and major redefinition of mental maps about colonial order. ...
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Title:Beyond utopianism and relativism: History in the plural in the work of Reinhart Koselleck Author(s):OLSEN, NiklasDate:2009Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This study examines the work of the German historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006). Its aim is to provide an inter-textual and contextual interpretation of Koselleck’s scholarly production. While a variety of articles, ...
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Title:Biographie de Nicola Bombacci : du réformisme au révolutionnarisme (1879-1924) Author(s):NOIRET, SergeDate:1985Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1985Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization -
Title:Blasphemy, Secularisation and Multiculturalism: A study of the Rushdie affair, the Theo van Gogh affair and the Mohammad caricature crisis Author(s):NIELSEN, Anne MarkDate:2010Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis examines secularisation theories and explores the question of their capability to capture and explain contemporary conflicts in Europe centred on the space and role for, primarily Muslims, religion in the public ...
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Title:The body beautiful and the beauty of nation : representing gender and modernity (Buenos Aires 1918-1939) Author(s):TOSSOUNIAN, CeciliaDate:2010Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This research focuses on the appearance of modern femininity in the mass media of Buenos Aires of the interwar period, showing the diverse range of meanings that the modern young woman phenomenon had in post-war Argentina. ...
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Title:Borders and belonging : migration and the Swedish nation 1890-1914 Author(s):BERGSTRÖM, LouiseDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis studies the consequences of turn of the twentieth century migration on Swedish national developments. It pays particular attention to the introduction of a reform programme of internal colonisation and the ...