Title:Appetite for Beef: How much meat did early New Yorkers consume?
Author(s):BAICS, GergelyDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Drawing on new archival data for the period from 1790 to 1818, this paper documents how much red meat per capita was consumed by an average New Yorker in the early Republican era, a period for which no systematic figures ...
Title:BENGASI REVISITED: A Cdrom
Author(s):BARATIERI, DanielaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract: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 ...
Title:Cartography and Production of Space: a Challenge for the Historian
Author(s):PANSINI, ValeriaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Cartographic sources have been used to support the role of “imagination” and “invention” in the production of spaces and locality. Their role as instruments of power and producers of order has been underlined inside the ...
Title:Colonial Mapping and Local Knowledge in the Venetian Empire, 1684-1715
Author(s):STOURAITI, AnastasiaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract: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 ...
Title:COMECON Integration and the Automobile Industry: the Czechoslovak Case
Author(s):FAVA, ValentinaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract: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 ...
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 ...