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Title: A Short-Lived Backlash: The political economy of wheat protection in Europe in the first half of the 19th century Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In the first half of the 19th century, the wheat trade policy in Western European countries followed a major political cycle, featuring a massive increase in protection in the late 1810s and early 1820s, and a slow process ... -
Title: BENGASI REVISITED: A Cdrom Author(s): BARATIERI, Daniela Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC Abstract: It all began in Autumn 2000 with Luisa Passerini’s EUI workshop Films as Sources for Cultural history: Case Studies from 1930s to 1950s. Thanks to all those who contributed to this forum. Thanks particularly to Luisa for ...
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Title: Why do People Choose to be Silent? Simulating Electoral Behaviour Author(s): BARTHA, Eszter; WOLSZCZAK-DERLACZ, Joanna Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper investigates opinion contagion in collective behaviour, using an extension of Granovetter’s (1978) and Krassa’s (1988) threshold models. The theoretical background is the spiral of silence concept developed ...
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Title: Women Rulers in Europe: Agency, Practice and the Representation of Political Powers (XII-XVIII) Author(s): CALVI, Giulia Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC Abstract: New interpretations of state formation processes include gender as a category of historical analysis and tackle notions of royalty and royal power, focusing on regency and women as regents in the process of consolidating ...
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Title: Funeral Oratory at the Medici Court: the Representation of the First Grand Dukes Author(s): MENCHINI, Carmen Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Over 420 works on the Grand Dukes of the Medici family were written in the two centuries during which they ruled Florence and later all of Tuscany (1532-1737). Funeral orations and biographies can be considered the main ...
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Title: The House that Market Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality in Socialist Yugoslavia Author(s): LE NORMAND, Brigitte Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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Title: Compradors to Cosmopolitans? The Historiographical Fortunes of Merchants in Eastern Mediterranean Ports Author(s): GEKAS, Athanasios Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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Title: Transforming Memories: Workers’ Recollection of the Socialist Regimes in East Germany and Hungary Author(s): BARTHA, Eszter Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes and compares workers’ memories of the late socialist regimes in East Germany and Hungary. It presents the results of an oral history project conducted in two factories, Rába MVG in Győr (Hungary) and ...
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Title: Colonial Mapping and Local Knowledge in the Venetian Empire, 1684-1715 Author(s): STOURAITI, Anastasia Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper seeks to illuminate the dialogic nature of early modern mapmaking in the context of the larger historiography on colonial cartography and the sociology of geographical knowledge. Taking as a case study the ...
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Title: COMECON Integration and the Automobile Industry: the Czechoslovak Case Author(s): FAVA, Valentina Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines the effects of the actions of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) negotiation on the development of automobile production in Czechoslovakia between 1949 and 1965. It investigates the ...
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Title: "Transnations" among "Transnations"? The Debate on Transnational History in the US and Germany Author(s): PATEL, Kiran Klaus Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Harvard University Center for European Studies Working Paper Series Abstract: Comparing the rise of transnational history in the United States and Germany is difficult, mainly because of the many connections between these historiographies. Still, the article argues that the paths into a transnational ...
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Title: The first European grain invasion: a study in the integration of the European market 1750-1870 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC Abstract: This paper argues that market integration should be measured as σ-convergence over the largest possible sample of markets. It test this claim with an empirical analysis of the European market for wheat, rye and candles ...
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Title: Inventing Russian History: ‘Reflections on Russia’ – an unearthed essay by Yakov Ivanovič Bulgakov (1743-1809) Author(s): VELIZHEV, Mikhail Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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’ ...
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Title: Conceptual Modalities of Social Classifications in Eighteenth-century France: Reasoning on a Natural Order or Observing Individuals Author(s): COHEN, Deborah Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This article aims to measure the transition from a theological way of classifying to the initiation of political thinking in an aristocratic and well-read bourgeois milieu. The shift is from an essentialist conceptualization ...
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Title: Innocent Victims of Red KZs? West German Representations of Soviet Internment 1945-55 Author(s): BEATTIE, Andrew Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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Title: The Edges of the Family: Family Life, Political Concerns and the Treatment of Children in Post-War Italy and Britain Author(s): BERNINI, Stefania Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper explores approaches to child protection in post-war Italy and Britain between 1945 and the mid 1960s. Both in Italy and in Britain, the Second World War represented a watershed in the treatment of children, giving ...
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Title: Havana’s Botanical Garden in the Construction of Cuban National Identity Author(s): AGUILERA-MANZANO, José María Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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, ...
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Title: Literature in the Construction of ‘Cuban Identity’, 1823-1845 Author(s): AGUILERA-MANZANO, José María Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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Title: The informal communication network built by Domingo del Monte from Havana between 1824 and 1845 Author(s): AGUILERA-MANZANO, José María Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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Title: The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940 Author(s): BAKKER, Gerben Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: LSE Economic History Working Papers Abstract: 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 ...
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