Title:Una nueva cristalización social: Las élites urbanas y el Estado en Valladolid y Magdeburgo (ca. 1770-1870)
Author(s):LUENGO SÁNCHEZ, JorgeDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims to examine the process of elite formation in a provincial European town in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Spanish town of Valladolid is the case study chosen for this purpose, and it has been compared ...
Title:Uncertainty, expectations, and the business cycle
Author(s):LANG, Jan HannesDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis adds to the recent quantitative literature that considers variations in uncertainty as impulses driving the business cycle. In chapter one a flexible partial equilibrium model that features heterogeneous firms, ...
Title:Understanding and Assessing the EU-Russia Legal Approximation Process: The case study of competition law
Author(s):MATTA, AaronDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Following the Europeanisation studies ‘top-out’ approach in this thesis I analyse the legal approximation process with Russia as a mechanism of acquis export in the backdrop of the various European economic integration ...
Title:Understanding Individuals' Beliefs
Author(s):GRANADOS ZAMBRANO, PaulinaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:We live in a world surrounded by uncertainty and within this uncertainty human beings have to decide every action, every turn of life. When individuals take decisions the true value of parameters relevant for that decision ...
Title:Une langue en quête d'une nation : le débat sur la langue d'oc au XIXe siècle
Author(s):ZANTEDESCHI, FrancescaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Dans le premier chapitre je définirai mon approche de la question nationale en m’appuyant sur certaines théories classiques du nationalisme. Je m’attacherai longuement sur le lien entre langue et nation, que je mettrai en ...
Title:Une souveraineté de papier au miroir de l'Europe : publier Christine de Suède entre 1654 et 1689
Author(s):LEMAIGNAN, MarionDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Christine de Suède (1626-1689) devient après son abdication en 1654 un phénomène politique à l’échelle européenne. La singularité de son statut ainsi que sa volonté de conserver une action politique après l’abdication ...
Title:The Unexplored Giant: Use histories of Italian oratorio around 1700
Author(s):VAN DER LINDEN, HuubDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The musical genre of Italian oratorio—unacted, sung drama in two parts on a hagiographic, biblical, or moral plot—witnessed a great boom of interest in the priod around years around 1900 and the decades around 1700. During ...