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Title:Migration and pandemics : spaces of solidarity and spaces of exception Editor(s):TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, Anna
Date:2022Citation:
- Cham : Springer, 2022
Type:BookAbstract:This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. ...

Title:William Temple’s political and economic thought : a restoration view of consequences of human nature, 1660–1699 Author(s):HAAVISTO, Juha Oskari
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis focuses on the political and economic thought the seventeenth century diplomat and author William Temple (1628–1699). His works have previously been analysed mainly from the point of view of literary studies, ...

Title:The shadow line : railway and society in colonial East Africa, c. 1890–1914 Author(s):ASELMEYER, Norman
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The era of ‘imperial globalization’ at the turn of the twentieth century was also the age of colonial railways. The global network of railway lines has never expanded faster than in the decades before and after 1900. ...

Title:Women and politics in the Romanian Legionary Movement Author(s):AXINIA, Anca Diana
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis examines women’s participation in the Legionary Movement or Iron Guard, a far-right, anti-Semitic movement active in interwar Romania. Over four chapters, I analyze how the participation of women changed over ...

Title:La lección de las monjas : el sector crediticio colonial, la historia de género y una revolución historiográfica inacabada Author(s):GRAFE, Regina
Date:2022Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI HEC; 2022/02Abstract:This paper offers a critical review of the way, in which financial history specialists and gender historians have studied the role of women’s convents within the credit sector in colonial Spanish America. The outsized role ...


Title:A divided common good : rhetoric and debates about wealth and status within the Dutch polycentric state, 1763-1790 Author(s):SCHUTTE, Gertjan
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis investigates Dutch debates on wealth and status in the Dutch polycentric state in the period between 1763 and 1790. This study aims to show the dynamics and characteristics of contemporary visions of wealth, ...

Title:Europeans making sense of the Levant : French and British merchants in Aleppo in the late eighteenth century (ca. 1770-1805) Author(s):SCHULER, Henning
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:How did the French and British in Aleppo, in the European society of Aleppo, but also with travellers and the local population, make sense of the Levant and its inhabitants at the end of the Eighteenth Century? I want to ...

Title:The power of communities : the political consequences of the interplay between individuals and contexts Author(s):COLOMBO, Francesco
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:How do communities influence individual preferences and behaviour? In four different papers, I present compelling evidence suggesting that individual political preferences and behaviour need to be studied into context. I ...


Title:West side stories : the Greek Gastarbeiter’s migration to the Federal Republic of Germany and their return to the homeland (1960-1989) Author(s):ADAMOPOULOU, Maria
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This doctoral thesis is a social history of the Greek migrant workers in West Germany, with an emphasis on the role of the sending country in all the stages of their migration journey. It examines the different ways the ...


Title:Mehmed the Conqueror between Sulh-i Kull and Prisca theologia Author(s):CASALE, Giancarlo
Date:2022Citation:
- Modern Asian studies, Vol. 56 , No. 3, pp. 840 - 869
Type:ArticleAbstract:This article presents a new interpretation of the reign of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (r. 1444–46, 1451–81) as refracted through the twin historical lenses of Mughal South Asia and the Renaissance Mediterranean. ...

