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 ...
Title:Motor vehicles vs. dollars: selling socialist cars in neutral markets. Some evidence from the ŠKODA Auto case.
Author(s):FAVA, ValentinaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper analyses the relationship of Škoda Auto with its dealers in the neutral countries in the years from 1948 to 1964.
The takeover by the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1948 and the rising tensions of the Cold War ...
Title:Moving Elites: Women and Cultural Transfers in the European Court System
Author(s):CALVI, Giulia; CHABOT, IsabelleDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:The overall evaluation of the formation of political decision-making processes in the early modern period is being transformed by enriching our understanding of political language. This broader picture of court politics ...