Title:The Jews of Modern Egypt: Schools, family, and the making of an imagined bourgeoise, 1880s-1950s
Author(s):MICCOLI, DarioDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation will investigate the emergence of an Egyptian Jewish bourgeoisie and its multi-layered imaginary in the period that goes from the 1880s up to the 1950s. More precisely, the research will aim to clarify ...
Title:John Morley and the liberal imagination: The uses of history in English liberal culture, 1867-1914
Author(s):DE WAARD, Jacob MarinusDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of the present study is to offer a new understanding of the ‘uses of history’ in English liberal culture between the passing of the Second Reform Act of 1867 and Britain’s entrance in the First World War in August ...
Title:Katholiken im Kalten Krieg : Ein Beitrag zur politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1957-1983
Author(s):GERSTER, DanielDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract: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:Kon-Tiki and the postwar journey of discovery
Author(s):ANDERSSON, AxelDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into ...