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Title:A new fashion : Polka wave in Europe 1844-1860s Author(s):AUGUSTYNOWICZ, Ewa Anna EUI affiliated

Date:2016Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2016 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This is a thesis about the polka, a dance of women and feminity, love, passion, young and old, peasants, bourgeoisie and aristocrats. And, as I will explain and study in the following pages, it is about one of the spectres ...

Title:The politics of space : symbols of hegemonic and non-dominant ethnic groups in the urban landscape of Prussia and Austria-Hungary (1867-1914) Author(s):KISIEL, Piotr EUI affiliated

Date:2016Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2016 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This dissertation examines the symbolic urban landscape in the four cities of Prussia and Austria-Hungary in the period 1867-1914. Following a theoretical discussion of the symbolic politics and construction of collective ...

Title:Colonial internationalism : how cooperation among experts reshaped colonialism (1830s-1950s) Author(s):WAGNER, Florian EUI affiliated

Date:2016Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2016 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:In this dissertation, I argue that a theory of colonial internationalism is necessary, or even indispensable, to adequately understand and explain the origins and the endurance over time of colonialism. International ...

Title:Competition law and standard essential patents : oscillating between protection of patent rights and access to standards Author(s):PETROVCIC, UrškaDate:2014Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2014 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:This thesis explores the way in which EU and U.S. antitrust rules address opportunistic conducts that emerge in the context of standard essential patents (SEPs). The analysis finds that the two systems have very different ...

Title:Meanings of a disaster : the contested 'truth' about Chernobyl : British and French Chernobyl debates and the transnationality of arguments and actors Author(s):KALMBACH, Karena EUI affiliated

Date:2014Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2014 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis compares the French and British Chernobyl debates in the period between 1986 and 2006 and investigates the transnational debate on the health effects of this accident. While the exchange of actors and arguments ...

Title:Joint research and development and patent pools under the antitrust laws of the USA and the competition rules of the European Union Author(s):LUNDQVIST, BjörnDate:2010Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2010 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:Great prosperity is derived from innovation, which in turn prospers in an environment with a large public domain of free knowledge, property rights and unfettered competition. Generally, this was the basic theory for ...

Title:English Liberal Culture and the Italian Question, c. 1850-1918 Author(s):TURNER VOAKES, LucyDate:2009Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2009 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization

Title:Compradors to Cosmopolitans? The Historiographical Fortunes of Merchants in Eastern Mediterranean Ports Author(s):GEKAS, AthanasiosDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2008/29Abstract: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:The first European grain invasion: a study in the integration of the European market 1750-1870 Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI HEC; 2008/01Abstract:This paper argues that market integration should be measured as σ-convergence over the largest possible sample of markets. It test this claim with an empirical analysis of the European market for wheat, rye and candles ...