Title:A Global History of Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1600-1850
Author(s):GEKAS, AthanasiosDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper arises from the project on "Cotton textiles as a global industry, 1200-1800",
carried out at the LSE and as part of the Global Economic History Network. The paper
revisits and situates the historiography of ...
Title:A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions
Author(s):GATEJEL, LuminitaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper gives a panoramic mapping of the infamous socialist ‘economy of shortages’ (Kornai) as it was lived and experienced by ordinary socialist citizens. It starts out by framing the general conditions under which ...
Title:Havana’s Botanical Garden in the Construction of Cuban National Identity
Author(s):AGUILERA-MANZANO, José MaríaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this article is to deepen the knowledge of the two projects of liberal identity that were forming on the island of Cuba during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This struggle can be seen in various fields, ...
Title:The House that Market Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality in Socialist Yugoslavia
Author(s):LE NORMAND, BrigitteDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Scholars have argued that Eastern European socialist regimes found themselves forced to compete with the capitalist consumerist model showcased in West Germany in order to maintain their legitimacy in the eyes of the ...
Title:Images of Europe
Author(s):PASSERINI, Luisa; NORDERA, MarinaDate:2000Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HEC
Title:Impenetrable Plans and Porous Expertise: Building a socialist Bucharest, reconstructing its past (1953-1968)
Author(s):GRAMA, EmanuelaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper analyzes the urban modernization of socialist Romania during the 1950s and 1960s with an eye to understanding the reconfiguration of professional and political alliances in the post-war socialist bloc. I argue ...
Title:The Implicit Theory of Historical Change in the Work of Alan S. Milward
Author(s):LYNCH, Frances M. B.; GUIRAO, FernandoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:Alan S. Milward was an economic historian who developed an implicit theory of historical change. His interpretation which was neither liberal nor Marxist posited that social, political, and economic change, for it to be ...
Title:The informal communication network built by Domingo del Monte from Havana between 1824 and 1845
Author(s):AGUILERA-MANZANO, José MaríaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this research is to study the informal channels of communication built by Domingo del Monte, and the circle of authors around him, during the transition from the Ancien Régime to liberalism, in order to spread ...
Title:Innocent Victims of Red KZs? West German Representations of Soviet Internment 1945-55
Author(s):BEATTIE, AndrewDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on Soviet internment camps established in eastern Germany in the wake of the Second World War. Since 1990 there has been heated debate about who was in the camps and ...
Title:Interpreting Murder Medically A Medico-Legal Case from an Early 20th Century European Periphery
Author(s):SKÅLEVÅG, Svein AtleDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper takes as its departure point a murder case from 1911, when four siblings killed their younger brother in a remote location in northern Norway. This episode becomes an occasion for discussing medical and juridical ...
Title:Inventing Russian History: ‘Reflections on Russia’ – an unearthed essay by Yakov Ivanovič Bulgakov (1743-1809)
Author(s):VELIZHEV, MikhailDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper analyzes the anonymous article “Reflections on Russia, or Some Remarks on Russians Civil and Moral Status Until Peter I’s Reign” published in 1807 in the Moscow literary magazine “Messenger of Europe”. ‘Reflections’ ...
Title:Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj and the Serbian Identity between Poetry and History
Author(s):ALEKSOV, BojanDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The recent violent outburst of Serbian nationalism has attracted significant interest in the ever-growing field of nationalism studies. In addition, the so-called ‘cultural turn’ has engaged scholars in the reappraisal of ...
Title:Literature in the Construction of ‘Cuban Identity’, 1823-1845
Author(s):AGUILERA-MANZANO, José MaríaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The main aim of this article is to discuss some of the characteristics of the identity project constructed by the Cuban liberal autonomists’ group during the transition from the Ancien Régime to liberalism. This faction ...