Search
Now showing items 1-6 of 6
Title:A new fashion : Polka wave in Europe 1844-1860s Author(s):AUGUSTYNOWICZ, Ewa Anna
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 ...
Date:2016Citation:
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, PiotrDate: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 ...
Date:2016Citation:
Title:Colonial internationalism : how cooperation among experts reshaped colonialism (1830s-1950s) Author(s):WAGNER, FlorianDate: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 ...
Date:2016Citation:
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, KarenaDate: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 ...
Date:2014Citation:
