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Title:The uneven development of Italy’s regions, 1861-1936 : a new analysis based on human capital, institutional and social indicators Author(s):CAPPELLI, Gabriele
Date:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis sheds new light on the process of economic divergence that characterized Italy’s regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and the Interwar period. It shows that social capital had a limited impact ...

Title:The Amazon's last pioneers : the rise and fall of Volkswagen's development project in the Brazilian rain forest (1973-1986) Author(s):ACKER, Antoine
Date:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis explores the rise and decline of the farming project Vale do Rio Cristalino, run by Volkswagen in the Amazon from 1973 to 1986. This large-scale development project was built within the framework of a colonization ...

Title:The ideological scramble for Africa : the US, Ghanaian, French and British competition for Africa's future, 1953-1963 Author(s):GERITS, Frank
Date:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The ideological scramble for Africa tells the story of an international competition between the US, France, Ghana and the UK. Against the background of rising Soviet interests, these countries worked to convince leaders ...

Title:Beyond the 'imperial mystique' : empire and national identity in the Portuguese Estado Novo (c. 1930-1951) Author(s):GONÇALVES, MárciaDate:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Whilst being a period of consolidation for the Portuguese right-wing dictatorship known as Estado Novo, the 1930s and 1940s were marked by geopolitical change and major redefinition of mental maps about colonial order. ...
Title:A state of corruption : fraud and the birth of British customs taxation, c. 1550-1590 Author(s):BUXTON-DUNN, OliverDate:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The levying of royal fiscal 'impositions' on overseas trade in 1558 eclipsed varied yet relatively light customs taxation that had existed since at least the thirteenth century. The records of governors that concern this ...
Title:Negotiating modernity : Europeanness in late colonial Indonesia, 1910-1942 Author(s):LUTTIKHUIS, Bart
Date:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The ‘European’ was a central figure of colonial history, occupying a pivotal position in the social hierarchy. Colonial rulers tended to (self-)identify as ‘European’, rather than as ‘White’ or by national denominators ...

Title:In the shadow of rivalry and intrigues : diplomatic relations of Genoa and Florence with the Ottoman Empire during the Sixteenth-century Author(s):MERCAN, Fatma Özden
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This dissertation focuses on the relations of Genoa and Florence with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, with a specific emphasis on key moments in their diplomatic contacts. Triggered by political and economic ...

Title:Femminismo sindacale al di là dei confini : l’incontro tra politica sindacale e soggettività femminile, in Italia e in Francia, attraverso la ‘lunga stagione dei movimenti delle donne’ (1968-1983) Author(s):FRISONE, Anna
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Dare una definizione o trovare una collocazione precisa al cosiddetto ‘femminismo sindacale’ è tutto fuorché un’impresa semplice. Come le due citazioni mostrano efficacemente, il suo stesso nome costituisce di per sé un ...

Title:Nature in draft images and overseas natural history in the work of Charles Plumier (1646-1704) Author(s):BELTRÁN, JoséDate:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Upon his death in 1704, the Minim friar, botanist to Louis XIV, and intrepid traveler Charles Plumier (1646-1704) left in his Parisian convent a mass of drawings on the flora and fauna of the West Indies. The industrious ...
Title:Politics of plunder : post-German property and the reconstruction of East Central Europe after the Second World War Author(s):KONCZAL, Kornelia
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Around the end of the Second World War two processes dramatically changed the socioeconomic landscape of East Central Europe: the expulsion of up to twelve million Germans and the establishment of a new social order inspired ...
