HEC Theses
HEC Theses are assessed for the award of the degree: Doctor of History and Civilization of the European University Institute.
All EUI theses are accessible on-campus. To be able to access embargoed or restricted theses outside campus, external readers can make a request of the print version through the EUI Library catalogue.
Selected collection: HEC Open Access Theses
Selected collection: HEC Theses published as Books
The copyright of the thesis belongs exclusively to the author. No part of an EUI thesis may be copied, reproduced or transmitted without prior permission of the author.
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 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:Before multiculturalism? : Windrush activists and the London schooling system (1948-1971) Author(s):GOMIS, ChristelleDate:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation delves into the struggles of Black families against the British educational system. Emerging from the economic upheaval in the Caribbean post-World War II, these families actively contributed to the ...
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Title:Unveiling Madrid : queer intimacies under Franco Author(s):FERNÁNDEZ CANO, Moisés Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation investigates the history of queer intimacies during the central decades of Francoist Spain in Madrid. Despite the recent upsurge in scholarship on sexual and gender dissidence in Spain, there persists a ...
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Title:'Some citizens : ' Romani Romanians and socialist citizenship in Romania, 1947-1989 Author(s):ANDRICIOAEI, CătălinaDate:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines encounters between Romani Romanians and the Communist Party, the Socialist State, and society at large in Romania during the period 1947-1989. Although party policies targeted them as unruly citizens ...
