Title:Defining the (In)appropriate : Scandinavian debates about the role of media in children's lives, 1950-1985
Author(s):JENSEN, Helle StrandgaardDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates public debates about the role of media in children’s lives in Scandinavia from the mid-nineteen fifties to the early eighties. The thesis breaks with the theoretical approaches 'moral panic’ and ...
Title:The ambivalent empire : Soviet rule in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, 1945-1964
Author(s):BECH HANSEN, ClausDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyses the functioning of Soviet rule in the Uzbek Soviet republic from 1945 to 1964. Thereby, it focuses on the effects of two fundamental forces that characterised Soviet rule in Uzbekistan: On the one hand, ...
Title:Negotiating the Ottoman Constitution : 1856-1876
Author(s):KOÇUNYAN, AylinDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The dissertation is about the genesis of the Ottoman Constitution, which was promulgated on December 23, 1876. The main objective is to reconstruct the nineteenth-century Ottoman constitutional movement in relation to ...
Title:Soviet Internationalism after Stalin: The USSR and Latin America in the Cultural Cold War
Author(s):RUPPRECHT, TobiasDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis, an entangled history of the Soviet Union and Latin America from the 1950s through the 1970s, explores Soviet internationalism as it re-emerged after the self-inflicted isolation of the USSR during late Stalinism. ...
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:The Unexplored Giant: Use histories of Italian oratorio around 1700
Author(s):VAN DER LINDEN, HuubDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The musical genre of Italian oratorio—unacted, sung drama in two parts on a hagiographic, biblical, or moral plot—witnessed a great boom of interest in the priod around years around 1900 and the decades around 1700. During ...
Title:Bridging the Baltic Sea: Networks of resistance and opposition during the Cold War era
Author(s):STÖCKER, Lars FredrikDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Located at the point of intersection of Northern, Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic Sea Region has historically been a setting of an, at times, vivid exchange between the shores of the small inland sea. Challenging ...
Title:Tarocchi as Renaissance Memory Places
Author(s):NEDELEA, PatriciaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why were the Tarocchi cards invented? Historiography gives two disjunctive answers: gaming and fortunetelling. This thesis offers a third original answer. Tarocchi as Renaissance Memory Places shows that these figurative ...
Title:Une souveraineté de papier au miroir de l'Europe : publier Christine de Suède entre 1654 et 1689
Author(s):LEMAIGNAN, MarionDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Christine de Suède (1626-1689) devient après son abdication en 1654 un phénomène politique à l’échelle européenne. La singularité de son statut ainsi que sa volonté de conserver une action politique après l’abdication ...
Title:Official Policy and Local Responses: Jews in Wrocław and L'viv: a comparative perspective, 1945 to 1970s
Author(s):KAZEJAK, IzabelaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation examines the process of re-establishment of Jewish communities in two cities: in Wroclaw, a city that passed after 1945 from Germany to Poland, and in L’viv, a city that passed from Poland to Soviet ...
Title:Sprovincializzare l'Italia: la casa editrice Einaudi in Europa (1943-1957)
Author(s):MUNARI, TommasoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale la casa editrice Einaudi, nata a Torino nel 1933, avvia una politica di sprovincializzazione e aggiornamento della cultura italiana che si traduce in un’azione di consolidamento delle ...
Title:Laws of Return? Co-ethnic immigration to West Germany and Israel (1948-1992)
Author(s):PANAGIOTIDIS, JannisDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation examines the phenomenon of co-ethnic immigration to West Germany and Israel between 1948 and 1992. Its core object of study is the legal and institutional arrangements for co-ethnic immigration in both ...
Title:Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla: The autonomous movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s
Author(s):VAN DER STEEN, BartDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract: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. ...
Title:A Time for Pride and Prejudice: Anglo-American relations at the UN during the Congo crisis, 1960-1965
Author(s):O'MALLEY, AlannaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis examines the Anglo-American relationship at the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964. The United Nations headquarters in New York became a focal point for British and American foreign policies ...