Department of History and Civilization (HEC): Recent submissions
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Title:Guardians of the empire : the trajectories of power of political aristocrats and mid-nineteenth-century state-building projects Author(s):DE ATHOUGUIA FILIPE, Sara
Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The trajectories of power of political aristocrats demonstrate how their constitutive values were defined in relation to the empire, placing the guiding principle of ‘imperial unity’ as the utmost priority in the conduct ...
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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, Tetiana
Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type: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 ...
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Title:Mytho-poetics at work : a study of the figure of Egmont, the Dutch Revolt and its influence in Europe Author(s):RITTERSMA, Rengenier C.Date:2018Citation:Leiden : Brill, 2018Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2006 ; English translation of the book 'Egmont da capo : eine mythogenetische Studie' (2009)Type:BookAbstract:In Mytho-poetics at Work Rengenier Rittersma offers an account of the posthumous fame of the Count of Egmont (1522-1568), whose public decapitation triggered the Dutch revolt. Drawing from numerous European sources – ...
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Title:Beschwernis mit Flügeln : Überlegungen zum Körper und zum Geist Author(s):GAMMERL, Benno Bastian
Date:2022Citation:Akzente : Zeitschrift für Literatur, 2021, No. 1, pp. 87-92Type:Article
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Title:Europeans making sense of the Levant : French and British merchants in Aleppo in the late eighteenth century (ca. 1770-1805) Author(s):SCHULER, Henning
Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:How did the French and British in Aleppo, in the European society of Aleppo, but also with travellers and the local population, make sense of the Levant and its inhabitants at the end of the Eighteenth Century? I want to ...