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Title: Fears and Hope in Numbers: Financial Data and the Writing of History Author(s): MARCUS, Nathan Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper puts forward the methodological view that certain data produced by financial markets can be used without the need to look into how they were compiled. It argues that when trying to understand the causes of the ...

Title: Financial Transformation and Social Citizenship in the EU Author(s): GRAHL, John Date: 2002 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC Abstract: 1. The transformation of financial relations in the EU has been accelerated by monetary union. 2. The transformation has serious implications for both industrial relations and social protection. 3. The current social ...

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 ...

Title: Frankrig mellem Afrika og Europa - Koloniale traditioner og europæisk integration i fransk udenrigspolitik, 1956 - 1963 Author(s): NOER, Poul Date: 2002 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Jean Monnet Skriftserien Abstract: Ved indgåelsen i 1957 af Rom-traktaterne - en grundpille og milepæl i efterkrigstidens integration af de vesteuropæiske lande - stod Frankrig i en vanskelig udenrigspolitisk position med et imperium i opløsning og en truet ...

Title: From Neutrality to Alignment: Portugal in the Foundation of the Atlantic Pact Author(s): TEIXEIRA, Nuno Severiano Date: 1991 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC

Title: Funding the Modern State: The Introduction of Value Added Tax in France Author(s): LYNCH, Frances M. B. Date: 1997 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC

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 ...

Title: De Gaulle's First Veto: France, the Rueff Plan and the Free Trade Area Author(s): LYNCH, Frances M. B. Date: 1998 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC

Title: Gender in the Production of History Author(s): PASSERINI, Luisa; VOGLIS, Polymeris Date: 1999 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC

Title: A Global History of Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1600-1850 Author(s): GEKAS, Athanasios Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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: The Gold Standard and its Influence on Growth Rates for the European Periphery, 1865-1913 Author(s): GARCIA-IGLESIAS, Concepcion Date: 2000 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC

Title: A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions Author(s): GATEJEL, Luminita Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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: The Greater and Lesser Nobility in Early Modern Europe: Poland-Lithuania and England and Wales in the Sixteenth Century Author(s): GROMELSKI, Tomasz W. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper comparatively discusses the relationship between the greater and lesser nobilities in two contrasting polities - sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania and Tudor England. It argues that the szlachta’s and the gentry’s ...

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, ...

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 ...

Title: Images of Europe Author(s): PASSERINI, Luisa; NORDERA, Marina Date: 2000 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC

Title: Impenetrable Plans and Porous Expertise: Building a socialist Bucharest, reconstructing its past (1953-1968) Author(s): GRAMA, Emanuela Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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, Fernando Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC Abstract: 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 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 ...

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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