Browsing HEC Contributions to Books by Types "Contribution to book"

Title:Time and the other : Ottoman encounters with Egypt’s ancient past Author(s):CASALE, Giancarlo

Date:2021Citation:Adulrahim ABU-HUSAYN (ed.), 1516 : The year that changed the Middle East and the world, Beirut : American University of Beirut Press, 2021, pp. 150-175Type:Contribution to book

Title:Introduction : material culture history : methods, practices and disciplines Author(s):RIELLO, Giorgio

; GERRITSEN, AnneDate:2021Citation:Anne GERRITSEN and Giorgio RIELLO (eds), Writing material culture history, London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, Writing History, pp. 1-18Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The simple acknowledgement that objects can serve as a way of understanding and appreciating the past does not necessarily explain why and how historians should engage with them. There are many fine historical accounts ...

Title:Habsburg histories of internationalism Author(s):SLUGA, Glenda

Date:2021Citation:Peter BECKER and Natasha WHEATLEY (eds), Remaking central Europe : the League of Nations and the former Habsburg Lands, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021, pp.17-36Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter explores points of ideological and institutional intersection in the Habsburg and Austrian past in the context of a new historiography of internationalism and studies of the League of Nations. Drawing from the ...

Title:From F. Melian Stawell to E. Greene Balch : international and internationalist thinking at the gender margins, 1919–1947 Author(s):SLUGA, Glenda

Date:2021Citation:Patricia OWENS and Katharina RIETZLE (eds), Women's international thought : a new history, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 223-243Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Like several other interwar liberal internationalists, F. Melian Stawell was a classicist by training, set for an illustrious career at Cambridge working simultaneously on the ancient Greeks and contemporary world order. ...

Title:La culture matérielle de la diplomatie : les cadeaux diplomatiques des ambassades françaises au Siam à la fin du XVIIe siècle Author(s):RIELLO, Giorgio

Date:2021Citation:Ariane FENNETAUX, Anne-Marie MILLER-BLAISE and Nancy ODDO (eds), Objets nomades : circulations matérielles, appropriations et formation des identités à l'ère de la première mondialisation, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Turnhout : Brepols, 2021, pp. 26-42Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Au début de la période moderne, nul ambassadeur représentant un roi ou un empereur n’aurait été jugé digne d’être reçu par un autre souverain ou sa cour s’il n’offrait pas les cadeaux de circonstance, des objets à usage ...

Title:Failure and the industrial revolution : the East India companies’ procurement and the rise of the British cotton textile industry Author(s):RIELLO, Giorgio

Date:2021Citation:Joseph E. INIKORI (ed.), British imperialism and globalization, c. 1650-1960 : essays in honor of Patrick K. O'Brien, Woodbridge ; Rochester : Boydell Press, 2021, pp. 51-71Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Patrick O’Brien in a series of publications co-authored with Philip Hunt and Trevor Griffiths in the 1990s advanced a new and stimulating view of the process of British industrialisation. Moving beyond classic analyses ...

Title:Worlds with no fashion? : the birth of eurocentrism Author(s):RIELLO, Giorgio

Date:2021Citation:Eugenia PAULICELLI, Veronica MANLOW and Elizabeth WISSINGER (eds), The Routledge companion to fashion studies, New York : Routledge, 2021, pp. 11-22Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The idea of fashion as a diffusionist force, starting in Europe and expanding (especially in the twentieth century) to other parts of the world rested on European / Western imperial precepts. It allowed for narratives that ...

Title:L’inizio di una nuova era : l’Asia come baricentro mondiale di merci e commerci Author(s):RIELLO, Giorgio

Date:2021Citation:Milano globale : il mondo visto da qui, Milan : 24 Ore cultura, 2021, Arte. Saggi, pp. 112-121Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Lo scambio commerciale fu in età moderna una delle principali forze di connessione fra le diverse parti del mondo. Storicamente la mancanza di contatti marittimi diretti con l’Asia fu per gli europei un impedimento ...

Title:American development aid, decolonization, and the cold war Author(s):UNGER, Corinna R.

Date:2021Citation:David C. ENGERMAN, Max Paul FRIEDMAN and Melani MCALISTER (eds), The Cambridge history of America and the world, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021, The Cambridge history of America and the world Cambridge histories online; The Cambridge history of America and the world; Vol. 4; 1945 to the present, pp. 190-212Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Development assistance served as an important tool of American foreign policy in the postwar decades, when the United States was confronted with a series of new challenges and opportunities arising from the global constellation ...

Title:The imperative of opening to the West and the impact of the 1968 crisis : Bulgaria’s cooperation with Denmark and West Germany in the 1960s Author(s):STANOEVA, Elitza

Date:2020Citation:Laureen CRUMP and Susanna ERLANDSSON (eds), Margins for manoeuvre in Cold War Europe : the influence of smaller powers, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2020, Routledge studies in modern European history, pp. 110-129Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Exemplifying small-state diplomacy in the straitjacket of Soviet geopolitics, the foreign policy of socialist Bulgaria was a matter of precarious ‘manoeuvring’ – a word that Todor Zhivkov, head of state and party until ...

Title:La nascita di una nuova disciplina del passato? : la public history in Italia Author(s):NOIRET, Serge

Date:2020Citation:Silvia MANTINI (ed.), Ricostruire storie : riflessioni e pratiche di storia moderna, Napoli : Editoriale Scientifica, 2020, Collana Società Italiana per la Storia dell'Età Moderna ; 3, pp. 51-62Type:Contribution to book

Title:Genres of conspiracy in nineteenth-century British writing Author(s):CARVER, Benjamin Powys

Date:2020Citation:Michael BUTTER and Peter KNIGHT (eds), Routledge handbook of conspiracy theories, London : Routledge, 2020, pp. 415-426Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter provides an overview of the figures and conventions in nineteenth-century literature that gave rise to what can be glossed as ‘conspiracy fiction’. Networks, invasion and detection are the tropes to which ...

Title:Towards a new quality of statehood : bureaucratization and state-building in empires and nation states before 1914 Author(s):GRANDITS, Hannes; JUDSON, Pieter

; ROLF, MalteDate:2020Citation:Wlodzimierz BORODZIEJ, Sabina FERHADBEGOVIC and Joachim VON PUTTKAMER (eds), The Routledge history handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth Century, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020, Vol. 2, pp. 41-116Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the European continental empires faced the challenge of integrating hugely diverse populations within political systems that could no longer rely simply on bureaucratic administration ...

Title:The politics of the adjective global : May’s global Britain and the ‘new world’ Author(s):SELCHOW, Sabine Ulrike

Date:2020Citation:Ino ROSSI (ed.), Challenges of globalization and prospects for an inter-civilizational world order, Cham : Springer, 2020, pp. 209-224Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The adjective global has come to be an omnipresent ingredient of contemporary politics discourses. There is hardly anything these days that is not attributed with this adjective in one context or another. Most recently, ...

Title:André de Avelar and the City of Coimbra : spaces of knowledge and belief during the early modern Iberian Union Author(s):CARRIÓ CATALDI, Leonardo Ariel

Date:2020Citation:Bert DE MUNCK and Antonella ROMANO (eds), Knowledge and the early modern city : a history of entanglements, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2020, pp. 173–196Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter aims to explore the organisation and reorganisation of knowledge and ‘spaces of knowledge’, and the interaction and tension of different institutions and actors in shaping and distinguishing different forms ...

Title:Fashion in the four parts of the world : time, space and early modern global change Author(s):RIELLO, Giorgio

Date:2020Citation:Beverly LEMIRE and Giorgio RIELLO (eds), Dressing global bodies : the political power of dress in global history, London : Routledge, 2020, pp. 41-64Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:In all probability (fashion) started in the families of the gentry, where the maidservants copied it, after which (it was) increasingly borrowed by their relatives until it made its way into the quarters of the neighbourhood. ...

Title:The planist temptation : Belgian social democracy and the state during the great depression, c. 1929 – c. 1936 Author(s):MILANI, Tommaso

Date:2020Citation:Mathieu FULLA and Marc LAZAR (eds), European socialists and the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements, pp. 77-96Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:In late 1926, two Belgian socialists, Antony Vienne and Arthur Wauters, authored a critical assessment of the post-war policy of their party under the title La réforme du réformisme? Having acknowledged the satisfactory ...

Title:Petroleum conspiracies : how Russian policymakers seek meaning in oil price volatility Author(s):ETKIND, Alexander

; SZULECKI, Kacper

; YABLOKOV, IliaDate:2020Citation:Andrei BELY (ed.), Beyond market assumptions : oil price as a global institution, Cham : Springer, 2020, pp. 79-102Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:If we agree that the oil price is a social institution, embedded in socio-economic and political practices, this means that it is not only the outcome of these practices but also a causal factor. Using the case of Russia, ...

Title:Prisoners as leaders of political change : Cage 11 and the peace process in Northern Ireland Author(s):REINISCH, Dieter

Date:2020Citation:Martin GUTMANN (ed.), Historians on leadership and strategy : case studies from antiquity to modernity, Cham : Springer, 2020, Business and management, pp. 55-75Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter shows how Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners started a critical debate within and beyond the prison walls during the Northern Ireland conflict, thereby becoming leaders of a conflict transformation process. ...

Title:Exporting holidays : Bulgarian tourism in the Scandinavian market in the 1960s and 1970s Author(s):STANOEVA, Elitza

Date:2020Citation:Sune BECHMANN PEDERSEN and Christian NOACK (eds), Tourism and travel during the Cold War : negotiating tourist experiences across the Iron Curtain, London : Routledge, 2020, pp. 23-46Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:From the early 1960s, Bulgaria pursued an ambitious program of international tourism targeting Western visitors who could contribute to the country’s hard-currency income, thus assisting foreign trade. The strategy tied ...