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Title:Les réfugiés acadiens en France (1758-1785) : l'impossible réintégration? Author(s):MOUHOT, Jean-FrancoisDate:2006Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2006 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title:Population politics in the tropics : demography, health and colonial rule in Portuguese Angola, 1890s-1940s Author(s):COGHE, SamuëlDate:2014Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2014 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This Ph.D. thesis examines the colonial efforts aimed at increasing and physically improving the native population in Portuguese Angola from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It argues that, throughout this ...

Title:The politics of history education : teaching national history, identity and citizenship in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1830-1880 Author(s):JANS, JasperDate:2014Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2014 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This dissertation has studied the discourses around national history education in Belgium and the Netherlands in the middle of the nineteenth century. The literature on nation building and cultural nationalism often observes ...

Title:Bridging Politics and Science: The Concept of Social Engineering in Sweden and the USA, Circa 1890-1950 Author(s):MARKLUND, CarlDate:2008Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2008 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This dissertation aims to problematize the historical concept of “social engineering.” In historiography, social engineering is usually understood as the application of scientific theory to political and social practice. ...

Title:The Enlightenment Philosophes and the Category of People Author(s):OAKLEY, SheilaDate:2004Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2004 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title:Fire and Fuels: CO2 and SO2 Emissions in the Finnish Economy, 1800-2005 Author(s):KUNNAS, JanDate:2009Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2009 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis examines Finland‘s transition from a solar based energy system to a fossil fuel based one, and the environmental consequences of this transition. The period under examination is from the beginning of the 19th ...

Title:The uneven development of Italy’s regions, 1861-1936 : a new analysis based on human capital, institutional and social indicators Author(s):CAPPELLI, Gabriele EUI affiliated

Date:2014Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2014 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis sheds new light on the process of economic divergence that characterized Italy’s regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and the Interwar period. It shows that social capital had a limited impact ...

Title:La terre et le plomb : violence politique, question agraire et crise du parlementarisme libéral dans l'Italie du premier après-guerre (1918-1922) et dans l'Espagne républicaine (1931-1936) Author(s):BONNET, Romain EUI affiliated

Date:2016Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2016 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:La Terre et le Plomb est une histoire comparée de la violence politique rurale dans l'Italie du premier après-guerre (1918-1922) et dans l'Espagne républicaine (1931-1936) où prédominaient les mondes ruraux notamment dominés ...

Title:Dynamics and structure of strikes : on the way to the first Russian Revolution Author(s):DOROFEYUK, Maria EUI affiliated

Date:2015Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2015 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The research seeks to explore the basic characteristics of labor conflicts in the Russian Empire from the year 1895 to 1905. The central theme of the research is the structure of these labor conflicts, which varied by year, ...

Title:Debates on household consumption and production in the patriotic societies in Denmark-Norway (c. 1780-1814) Author(s):HALLE, MariaDate:2016Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2016 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:During the eighteenth century, most families in Northwestern Europe and Colonial America bought more and different goods, such as coffee, tobacco, new types of furniture and clothes. Simultaneously, the family members ...

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