HEC Theses: Recent submissions
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Title:French colonizers and coal mining in Vietnam, 1873-1939 Author(s):CAMPAGNE, Armel
Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Critically engaging with the existing literature, this dissertation investigates the attitudes and practices of French public and private officials involved in the making of colonial Vietnam's coal industry between 1873 ...
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Title:European trans-imperial corporate cooperation in the French colonies : the Eurafrican illusion in Italy and West Germany, 1950- 1960 Author(s):COSTENARO, Giovanni
Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:When the European Economic Community was established, France, Belgium and the Netherlands still held colonial territories. Italy and West-Germany, for their part, had a recent imperial past, as Italy had lost its colonies ...
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Title:The nature of the Risorgimento : science, environment and nation-building in nineteenth-century Italy Author(s):LAURI, Zoe
Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis investigates conceptions of nature and their relationship to politics in nineteenth-century Italy. I claim that, in the context of nation-building that followed Italian political unification in 1861, Italian ...
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Title:Reconciliation on the banks of the Danube : the Congress of Carlowitz (1698-1699) and the supracultural diplomatic practices of peace-making at the end of the seventeenth century Author(s):POULIOS, Konstantinos
Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:The present thesis explores the inter-polity peace-making norms and practices during the lateseventeenth century through the first comprehensive analysis of the Peace Congress of Carlowitz (1698-1699), which ended the ...
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Title:A Scandinavian way of adoption? : a comparative historical study of transnational adoption in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden during the late half of the 20th century Author(s):ERIKSEN, Kasper
Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines transnational adoption in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from a comparative historical perspective in the context of the Nordic welfare state. The international research on transnational adoption is heavily ...