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Title:The Union of Numbers : international statistical harmonization and the European communities 1950-1979 Author(s):WIEMAN, GuusDate:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis analyses how ongoing European economic integration affected practices of international statistical harmonization at the level of the European Communities between the 1950s and late 1970s. This study is made up ...
Title:Catalans and Rifis during the Wilsonian moment : the quest for self-determination in the post-Versailles world Author(s):DALMAU, PolDate:2023Citation:Contemporary European history, 2023, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 131-145Type:ArticleAbstract:Morocco and Catalonia are often mentioned as key elements in the crisis of Spanish liberalism, but little attention has been paid to the relation of these conflicts with the global developments of the 1920s. In their effort ...
Title:Transnational flows of knowledge and the legalisation of homosexuality in Interwar Poland Author(s):KARCZEWSKI, KamilDate:2022Citation:Contemporary European history, 2022, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:The article demonstrates how the transnational flows of sexual knowledge created a consensus among medical and legal experts for the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in the Polish Criminal Code of 1932. This happened ...
Title:Images of black faces in Italian colonialism : mobile essentialisms Author(s):PICCIONI, Lucia Date:2022Citation:Modern Italy, 2022, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 375-396Type:ArticleAbstract:This study analyses the essential question of the role of visual and material culture in the construction of a mass racial ideology during the Fascist colonial empire. The hypothesis behind this essay is that representations ...
Title:“Call Me by My Name :” A “Strange and Incomprehensible” Passion in the Polish Kresy of the 1920s Author(s):KARCZEWSKI, KamilDate:2022Citation:Slavic Review, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 3, pp. 631-652Type:ArticleAbstract:The article demonstrates the presence of (homo)sexual subjectivity in rural Poland in the early 1920s using remarkable correspondence between two men who stood trial for committing homosexual acts in 1925. It argues that ...