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Title:Carlo Ginzburg, leitor de Ernesto De Martino : aproximações e distanciamentos Author(s):MOTTA TASSINARI, Tomás Date:2024Citation:Campos : revista de antropologia, 2023, Vol. 24, No. 1-2, pp. 131-155Type:ArticleAbstract:The article compares the theoretical and methodological perspectives of the historian Carlo Ginzburg and the ethnologist Ernesto De Martino, both from Italy. On several occasions, the historian has recognized the importance ...
Title:Poland and European east-west cooperation in the 1970s : the opening up Author(s):KOMORNICKA, Aleksandra Date:2024Citation:London ; New York : Routledge, 2024Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2021Type:BookAbstract:This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime’s history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West. It bridges Poland’s socialist domestic history with critical developments of the global and ...
Title:De la modernité de l’exception-comme-règle à la possibilité d’un véritable état d’exception : Walter Benjamin, penseur contemporain de l’exception Author(s):MIGLIORINI, Anna Date:2024Citation:Trajectoires, 2024, No. 17, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:Walter Benjamin reflects on the state of exception on several but scattered occasions. In Über den Begriff der Geschichte from 1940 he proposes a relevant dichotomy between the "state of exception as rule", under which he ...
Title:Building the first European enterprise in Early Modern Asia : the Portuguese Estado and the Carreira(s) system Author(s):CABRAL BERNABÉ, Renata Date:2024Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; Working Paper; 2024/03; CAPASIAAbstract:After Vasco da Gama reached Calicut, in India, in 1498, the Portuguese became the first European nation to regularly trade with Asia via the Cape of Good Hope and the only one to do so for the subsequent hundred years. ...
Title:Building Virtue : Leon Battista Alberti, Filarete, and rhetoric of urban environment Author(s):KOSKELA, Mikko Pekka Tuomas Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:In this thesis I study Italian fifteenth-century ideas on cities and the built environment, especially from the viewpoint of two architectural treatises and their writers, Leon Battista Alberti and Antonio Averlino, known ...
Title:The ruble lever : Soviet development knowledge and the political economy of the UN Author(s):BANKS, Elizabeth Date:2024Citation:Journal of global history, 2024, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:From the early 1950s, the USSR was the second largest contributor to the UN. Following UN rules, it gave much of its contribution in rubles, an infamously unconvertible currency that generally limited Soviet actions overseas. ...
Title:A Scandinavian way of adoption? : a comparative historical study of transnational adoption in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden during the late half of the 20th century Author(s):ERIKSEN, Kasper Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines transnational adoption in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from a comparative historical perspective in the context of the Nordic welfare state. The international research on transnational adoption is heavily ...
Title:The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974) Author(s):ADAMOPOULOU, Maria Date:2024Citation:Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024, Migrations in history ; 4Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2022Type:BookAbstract:Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully ...
Title:Reconciliation on the banks of the Danube : the Congress of Carlowitz (1698-1699) and the supracultural diplomatic practices of peace-making at the end of the seventeenth century Author(s):POULIOS, Konstantinos Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The present thesis explores the inter-polity peace-making norms and practices during the lateseventeenth century through the first comprehensive analysis of the Peace Congress of Carlowitz (1698-1699), which ended the ...
Title:French colonizers and coal mining in Vietnam, 1873-1939 Author(s):CAMPAGNE, Armel Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Critically engaging with the existing literature, this dissertation investigates the attitudes and practices of French public and private officials involved in the making of colonial Vietnam's coal industry between 1873 ...
Title:European trans-imperial corporate cooperation in the French colonies : the Eurafrican illusion in Italy and West Germany, 1950- 1960 Author(s):COSTENARO, Giovanni Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:When the European Economic Community was established, France, Belgium and the Netherlands still held colonial territories. Italy and West-Germany, for their part, had a recent imperial past, as Italy had lost its colonies ...
Title:The strikes of May 1906 : empire, bureaucracy, and the nature of late Habsburg rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina Author(s):TRODE, Rachel Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:In May 1906, the Habsburg occupied territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina experienced an unprecedented level of labour unrest. From the forests near Zavidovići to the tobacco fields of Ljubuški, civil society actors as well ...
Title:Dataset : Étudiants de l'Université Nouvelle de Bruxelles (1894-1918) Author(s):ELMER, Margot Date:2024Version:Data sources: Archives of the Université libre de Bruxelles, Université Nouvelle de Bruxelles funds (1Z); Archives Générales du Royaume, Sûreté Publique, Police des étrangers, F 1646 & F 1647.Type:DatasetSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; Research Data; 2024Abstract:This dataset contains name, surname, date of birth, place of birth, years of study at the Université Nouvelle de Bruxelles, others educative experiences, others informations and corresponding file at the Archives Générales ...
Title:Dataset : Professeurs effectifs à l'Université Nouvelle de Bruxelles (1894-1918) Author(s):ELMER, Margot Date:2024Version:Data sources: Archives of the Université libre de Bruxelles, funds of the Université Nouvelle (1Z).Type:DatasetSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; Research Data; 2024Abstract:This dataset contains the names, surnames, date of birth and death of the professors who gave lessons to the Université Nouvelle de Bruxelles from 1894 to 1918, with the title and dates of their lessons.
Title:Catering for communists : de-Stalinization and the socialist food service industry in the USSR Author(s):HOFLAND, Olav Servatius Franciscus Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:In the Soviet planned economy, lunch too was planned. This dissertation studies Soviet policies with regards to the socialist food service industry (obshchestvennoe pitanie), a network of state-run food service enterprises. ...
Title:Stars, djinns, and the air : reconciling natural and supernatural in explaining diseases in the Ottoman healing domain in the 1660s Author(s):DURMAZ, Tunahan Date:2024Citation:Aca’ib : occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural 4, 2024, Vol. 4, pp. 61-72Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper delves into the relationship between the natural and supernatural realms in the understandings of disease and sickness in the late seventeenth century, particularly in the 1660s. Its main objective is to explore ...
Title:Navigating revolutions and restorations : the Irish colleges in Paris and Rome between 1772 and 1849 Author(s):MCCANN, Muireann Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Scholarship on the Irish in Europe has flourished in recent decades and studies examining the network(s) of Irish Catholic continental colleges and their members have formed a significant part of this. However, much of the ...
Title:De republica saeculari : the architectonic of freedom and the temporal Republic of Algernon Sidney Author(s):ASHBY, Thomas Albert Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:During the twentieth century a flurry of historical and theoretical studies contributed to a renewed and sustained scholarship on English republicanism and the political thought of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683). This literature ...
Title:The alternative Bretton Woods : the 1944 International Business Conference in Rye and the postwar international economic order Author(s):DAVID, Thomas ; SAMPAIO, Guilherme Martins Rodrigues Date:2024Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; Working Paper; 2024/01; ECOINTAbstract:The official economic discussions that preceded the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference have been the subject of numerous studies, which tend to overlook the contribution of non-state actors, particularly bankers, industrialists ...
Title:Radical mercantilism and fascist Italy’s East African empire Author(s):TURTUR, Noelle Date:2024Citation:Business history review, 2024, Vol. 98, No. 1, pp. 165-202Type:ArticleAbstract:This article traces the evolution of Italian strategies for imperial expansion from the decades after unification—when many came to believe that imperial conquest would more advantageously position Italy in the liberal ...