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Title: Universal crime, particular punishment : trying the atrocities of the Japanese occupation as treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953 Author(s): LAWSON, Konrad M. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Trials against both war crimes and treason were held in the Philippines after the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945. In the former, a universalistic category of crimes were punished, while in the latter, the crime was ... -
Title: Translating modernity : visions and uses of Europe in Finland Author(s): NYGÅRD, Stefan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Translating modernity to the periphery is a recurring theme in the discussions on Europe at its geocultural margins. In small and young countries such as Finland, “Europe” has been mobilized for nation-building in terms ...
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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 ...
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Title: Raiffeisenism Abroad: Why did German microfinance fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands? Author(s): COLVIN, Christopher L.; MCLAUGHLIN, Eoin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: What was the recipe for the success of Raiffeisen’s banking model? What made it possible for imitations of this German rural cooperative microfinance institution to work well in some European countries, but fail in others? ...
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Title: Pragmatic Conversions: Mixed marriage and flexibility of Shari'a in interwar Yugoslavia Author(s): BURIC, Fedja Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper discusses the cases of pragmatic conversions to, and out of, Islam in interwar Yugoslavia. It analyzes these cases in the context of Sharia law, which, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Kingdom of ...
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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 ...
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Title: "Those Who Give Are Not All Generous": Tips and bribes at the sixteenth-century papal court Author(s): FLETCHER, Catherine Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Ambassadors in early modern Europe were frequent disbursers of tips, rewards and bribes, and usually expected something in return for their liberality. This paper considers the conventions, both written and unwritten, that ...
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Title: Politics of Diversity: Sexual and Religious Self-fashioning in Contemporary and Historical Contexts Author(s): CALVI, Giulia; FADIL, Nadia; FALEK, Pascale; MICCOLI, Dario; MOSCHEL, Mathias; STORNIG, Katharina Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC Abstract: Scott’s seminal book ‘Politics of the Veil’ (2007) offers a multifaceted analysis of the French headscarf debate since its emergence in 1989 and a critique of French republican universalism which constructs veiled women ...
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Title: Rural Communities and the Reformation: Social discipline and the process of confessionalization in Montbéliard, 1524-1660 Author(s): DERMINEUR, Elise Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the sixteenth century, the dukes of Württemberg, also sovereigns of Montbéliard, enforced Lutheranism as the new faith in the city and its surrounding dependent villages. The dukes sought to convert the French-speaking ...
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Title: Shaping Virtuous Friendship: the Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in late Ming China Author(s): HOSNE, Ana Carolina Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Taking as a starting point his first treatise in Chinese, ‘On Friendship’ (Jiaoyou lun, 1595), this paper aims to analyze the process by which the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1583-1610) shaped the concept of virtuous ...
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Title: The Silent Republic: Popular Music and Nationalism in Socialist Croatia Author(s): VULETIC, Dean Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper explores the development of popular music and its relationship to the political situation in Croatia and Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991, and how global musical trends were used to construct and reinvent Croatian ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Title: Saranno Rispettati Come Per il Passato. Italian Colonial Policy towards Libyan Religious Endowments Author(s): GAZZINI, Claudia Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper offers a survey of Italian colonial policy towards Muslim religious endowments (waqf, pl. awqaf) in Libya from 1911 to 1943. Through an analysis of 41 lawsuits presented to the colonial Court of Appeals and a ...
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Title: Constructing a German-Jewish Heimat: Berthold Rosenthal’s Heimat History of the Jews of Baden Author(s): DERMAN, Joshua Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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Title: Appetite for Beef: How much meat did early New Yorkers consume? Author(s): BAICS, Gergely Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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Title: Concepts of Social Justice in the Welfare State. Great Britain and Germany since 1945 Author(s): TORP, Cornelius Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: 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 ...
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Title: Cultural Representations of Jewishness at the Turn of the 21st Century Author(s): WALIGORSKA, Magdalena; WAGENHOFER, Sophie Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC
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Title: Moving Elites: Women and Cultural Transfers in the European Court System Author(s): CALVI, Giulia; CHABOT, Isabelle Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC Abstract: 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 ...
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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 ...
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