Browsing HEC Theses by Title

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Title:Walking the tightrope : Edward Heath's vision of Europe and Anglo-American relations Author(s):ROSSBACH, Niklas HelmerDate:2007Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This is a study of the consequences for the Anglo-American special relationship of Heath’s attempt to place Britain at the centre of the EC. British accession to the EC is widely regarded as the chief accomplishment of the ...
Title:Wanderndes Gedächtnis - Wandelnde Erinnerungen : Migration und Akkulturation von südtiroler Umsiedlerinnen und Umsiedlern Author(s):SCHWEITZER, SabineDate:2002Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2002Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:War for sale : Peninsular War veterans' memoirs in the long nineteenth Century (1808-1914) Author(s):GREIG, Matilda Louise Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Version:Chapter 4, 'The myth of the accidental author' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article: 'Accidental authors? : soldiers’ tales of the peninsular war and the secrets of the publishing process' (2018) in the journal History workshop journal. Chapter 7, 'A war with three names: circulation, translation and transnational memory' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article: 'Traduire la guerre au XIXe siècle : réinventions et circulations des mémoires militaires de la guerre d’Espagne, 1808-1914' (2017) in the journal Hypothèses.Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This is a study of the development of war writing in the nineteenth century, showing how the authorial impulses of veterans from the Napoleonic Wars interacted with a booming publishing industry across Europe to forge a ...
Title:War remembrance in the Republic of Moldova : commemoration, state-formation and belonging Author(s):POPA, GabrielaDate:2011Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The thesis examines the practices and spaces of Second World War commemorations following the fall of the Soviet Union. Drawing on the case of the Republic of Moldova, it addresses two dimensions of the topic: the temporal ...
Title:War veterans and transnational fascism : from fascist Italy and Nazi Germany to Francoist Spain and Vichy France (1917-1940) Author(s):ALCALDE, ÁngelDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation explores, from a transnational viewpoint, the historical relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. Until now, historians have been roughly divided between those who assume that ...
Title:'We have made our whole lives here' : immigration, settlement and integration processes of Mediterranean immigrants in Ghent, 1960-1980 Author(s):DE BOCK, JozefienDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:In the field of migration history, the history of post-war labour migration to Western Europe has been receiving the attention of an increasing number of scholars, especially since the beginning of the new millennium. ...
Title:'We must work with a missionary spirit' : the League of Nations Information Section and public diplomacy Author(s):VAN DIJK, Pelle Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis explores the information strategies of the League of Nations. Building on the recent literature on interwar international organizations and the related activities of non-state actors, I show how the first ...
Title:Weisse Helden, schwarze Krieger : zur Geschichte einer kolonialen Imagination, 1918-1964 Author(s):MASS, SandraDate:2004Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2004Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:West European academic images and stereotypes of Japan since the 1970s Author(s):IWASA, TakuroDate:2007Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The aim of this thesis is to analyse the changes through the time of the West European academic images and stereotypes of Japan since the 1970s, and to study how Japan has been produced and constructed for Europe in some ...
Title:West European tariff plans, 1947-1957 : from study group to Common Market Author(s):ASBEEK BRUSSE, WendyDate:1991Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1991Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:The West Indian web : improvising colonial survival in Essequibo and Demerara, 1750-1800 Author(s):HOONHOUT, Bram Michael Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Version:Thesis chapter 4 'The commercial web : mercantilism, cash crops and captives as contraband' was previously published as and article in Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis (2013) and as a chapter in the book 'Beyond empires : global, self-organizing, cross-imperial networks, 1500-1800' (2016)Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:When, in 1796, the British invasion fleet approached the Demerara River, its commanders were in for an unpleasant surprise. The expedition, arriving from Barbados with some 1,300 men, aimed to take possession of the Dutch ...
Title:West side stories : the Greek Gastarbeiter’s migration to the Federal Republic of Germany and their return to the homeland (1960-1989) Author(s):ADAMOPOULOU, Maria Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This doctoral thesis is a social history of the Greek migrant workers in West Germany, with an emphasis on the role of the sending country in all the stages of their migration journey. It examines the different ways the ...
Title:The western way : academic diplomacy : foreign academies and the Swedish institute in Rome, 1935-1953 Author(s):WHITLING, FrederickDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The focus of this investigation lies on the dynamic of national interests versus international collaboration among the so-called foreign academies in Rome during the immediate post-war period in Italy. This is a study of ...
Title:Where philosophy meets bureaucracy : Cesare Beccaria's social contract from page to practice Author(s):ORTOLJA-BAIRD, AlexandraDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Cesare Beccaria, renowned author of the 1764 Enlightenment treatise Dei delitti e delle pene, has long been celebrated as the voice of the abolitionist movement against the death penalty, the founding father of modern ...
Title:Where the nation would dwell the Hellenization of Southern Macedonia, 1913- 1940 Author(s):VLACHOS, Georgios Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis constitutes an attempt to construct a complete narrative that would explain the incorporation of southern Macedonia to the Greek state as an integral part of the country. The initial research proposal of this ...
Title:Who is a 'Ukrainian' child? : UNRRA/IRO welfare workers and the politics of unaccompanied children of presumed Ukrainian origin in the aftermath of WWII (1945-1952) Author(s):GNYDIUK, Olga Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Version:Chapter 4 'Social Care in The Field' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as chapter ''The advantages of repatriation do not offset the trauma of a removal' : IRO welfare workers and the problem of Ukrainian unaccompanied children in German foster families' in the book 'Freilegungen : rebuilding lives : child survivors and DP children in the aftermath of the Holocaust and forced labor'Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The care and rehabilitation of displaced, orphaned or lost children after World War II became a significant challenge for the international humanitarian organizations, as well as for the military governments in the occupied ...
Title:William Temple’s political and economic thought : a restoration view of consequences of human nature, 1660–1699 Author(s):HAAVISTO, Juha Oskari Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis focuses on the political and economic thought the seventeenth century diplomat and author William Temple (1628–1699). His works have previously been analysed mainly from the point of view of literary studies, ...
Title:Winning the hearths and mines : strategic materials and American foreign policy, 1939-1953 Author(s):INGULSTAD, MatsDate:2011Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:Wise merchants : the brothers De La Court & the Commercial Republic in the Dutch Golden Age Author(s):WESTSTEIJN, ArthurDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Title:Wissen und Tuerkengefahr : die formierung des Ethnographischen Wissenkorpus über die Osmanen in Europa (15-16 Jahrhundert) Author(s):HOFERT, AlmutDate:2001Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2001Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis