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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 ...
Date:2022Citation:
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 ...
Date:2022Citation:
Title:The birth of a discipline from the spirit of reform : political science as instituted in the american research university (1858–1903) Author(s):ZEMLIAKOVA, TetianaDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The thesis deals with a formative period in the history of political science from the 1850s to 1903. It treats political science as a university discipline, a scholarly practice emergent on the institutional-intellectual ...
Date:2022Citation:
Title:Building connections, distorting meanings : Soviet architecture and the West, 1953-1979 Author(s):YAKUSHENKO, OlgaDate:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The transnational history of the Soviet Union often goes against everything we know as citizens of the post-Soviet world. We are used to imagining the Iron Curtain as an impermeable obstacle and any meaningful connection ...
Date:2021Citation:
Title:Remembering fascism and empire : the public representation and myth of Rodolfo Graziani in 20th-century Italy Author(s):WITKOWSKI, Victoria MargaretDate:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:My PhD has utilised the cultural representation of Italy’s most popular military figure from the Fascist period to account for the myth-making and warped remembrance of Rodolfo Graziani in Modern-day Italy. By proving ...
Date:2021Citation:
Title:'Up and down' : Genoese financiers and their relational capital in the early reign of Philip II Author(s):SANCHEZ CAMACHO, Alberto Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This doctoral thesis analyses the process of state construction in the early modern period from a joint perspective that amalgamates the agencies of state officials, lending communities, and local elites in the Hispanic ...
Date:2021Citation:
Title:Overcoming uncertainty : Moscow merchants’ wealth and inheritance in the second half of the nineteenth century Author(s):PAVLENKO, OlgaDate:2020Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2020
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:In recent years, there has been an explosion of literature about material inequality and the historical linkages between socio-economic disparities and inheritance strategies. These studies mainly focus on Western Europe ...
Date:2020Citation:
Title:Black North American and Caribbean music in European metropolises : a transnational perspective of Paris and London music scenes (1920s-1950s) Author(s):CHINCOLI, VeronicaDate:2019Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2019
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis examines black music circulation in the urban spaces of London and Paris. It shows the complexity of the evolutionary processes of black musical genres, which occurred during the late imperial period (1920s-1950s) ...
Date:2019Citation:
Title:Capital nature : a history of French municipal museums of natural history, 1795-1870 Author(s):DUBALD, Déborah Sarah Date:2019Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2019
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The purpose of this study of three municipal museums of natural history in Nantes, Lyon and Toulouse, from ca. 1800 to 1870, is to offer a history of museums which values the situational configurations, whether social, ...
Date:2019Citation:
Title:Pashas and nobles : Paweł Benoe and Ottoman-Polish encounters in the eighteenth century Author(s):KACZKA, Mariusz Date:2019Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2019
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This dissertation explores Ottoman-Polish encounters in the eighteenth century through an actor-based, microhistorical perspective. It discusses in topical chapters seven case studies: of border management, cross-border ...
Date:2019Citation: