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Abstract: In the first postwar years, the CPY followed Lenin’s thesis on the merging of the nations, which they emphasized in their speeches. However, the…

Abstract: This dissertation is a local history of crowd formation and crowd action in the city of Kristiania (today Oslo) in the 1890s. This was a decade of…

Abstract: In 16th century Venice, new consumption patterns and the emergence of a luxury economy were part of the economic changes observed at that time.…

Abstract: Nineteenth-century mutualism is not seldomly depicted as a sympathetic but inherently flawed (upper) working-class movement that by necessity was…

Abstract: L’industrie de la soierie à Florence entre 1450 et 1550 constitue un fleuron de l’économie citadine, dans une période troublée sur le plan politique,…

Abstract: Over the course of the eighteenth century, Ottoman Istanbul gradually expanded into its hinterland along the shores of the Bosphorus with new…

Abstract: The thesis is devoted to the history of radio communication in Russia, investigating how, where, and for what purposes radio enthusiasts constructed…

Abstract: A Global casa? The Boulignys (1700-1790) is a global microhistory about an eighteenth-century family characterized by their mobility, the Boulignys.…