Department of History and Civilization (HEC): Recent submissions
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Title:The floating revolution : radical mobilities, organisation and practices in the western Mediterranean, 1850-1874 Author(s):BANKS, Daniel Forrest
Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The aim of this dissertation is to show how a heterogeneous and transnational revolutionary political culture had a profound impact on the evolution of states and polities in the western Mediterranean in the quarter-century ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
