HEC Theses: Recent submissions
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Title:Oil palm development in Dahomey/Benin : a socio-environmental history (1894-1978) Author(s):TONOLO, Giovanni Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis analyses the history of oil palm development in Dahomey/Benin since the French conquest of the territory until the late 1970s, with a particular focus on its socio-environmental consequences. In particular, it ...
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Title:The Apocalypsis Nova and early modern prophetic discourse Author(s):FERNÁNDEZ GUERRERO, Eduardo Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:At the beginning of the 16th century, some of the most important figures of Renaissance Rome gathered around a recent discovery. At the church of San Pietro in Montorio, the cardinal and ambassador de facto of the Spanish ...
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Title:Come fiori fra spine : religious practices of the Order of St John, ca. 1570-1660 Author(s):EBEJER, MatthiasDate:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Throughout the sixteenth century, the Order of St John sought to redefine its place in a constantly changing world to survive, weathering storms from within and without. Existing scholarship largely focused on the ...
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Title:The triumph of continuity : the Christian democrats, west German Ostpolitik and the cold war Author(s):REIMER-ELSTER, MircoDate:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:After thirteen long years in opposition, the West German Christian Democrats returned to power in the fall of 1982. At the time, it was widely discussed whether a turn in relations with Eastern Europe had to be expected ...
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Title:Sex in times of nationalism : queerness and Poland, 1918-1939 Author(s):KARCZEWSKI, Kamil Date:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation is the first historical work attempting to investigate queerness in interwar Poland in a comprehensive, contextualized manner. In doing so, it does not seek to answer Miłosz’s rhetorical question. Instead, ...