Title:Compradors to Cosmopolitans? The Historiographical Fortunes of Merchants in Eastern Mediterranean Ports
Author(s):GEKAS, AthanasiosDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper examines a complex and occasionally much debated issue: whether class
analysis is a suitable analytical tool when studying the history of the merchant groups
that developed in Eastern Mediterranean ports in ...
Title:Concepts of Social Justice in the Welfare State. Great Britain and Germany since 1945
Author(s):TORP, CorneliusDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Concepts of social justice are at the very heart of the welfare state. From the perspective of the history
of institutions, the article reconstructs the principles of justice which underlie the architecture of the
social ...
Title:Constructing a German-Jewish Heimat: Berthold Rosenthal’s Heimat History of the Jews of Baden
Author(s):DERMAN, JoshuaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper examines how the historian Berthold Rosenthal (1875–1957) mobilized the idea of Heimat to address the challenges of being both German and Jewish during the Weimar Republic. By conceiving of the Jewish communites ...
Title:The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:LSE Economic History Working PapersAbstract:This paper investigates the role of consumption in the emergence of the motion picture industry in Britain France and the US. A time-lag of at least twelve years between the invention of cinema and the film industry’s ...