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Department of History

We investigate the global, comparative, and transnational history of Europe since 1400

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Who gets to be a “good” migrant?

PhD Researcher Fotis Papadopoulos describes his research on the history of Greek immigration to colonial Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and what it tells us about the influence of socio-economic factors on the development of racial prejudices and migration policies

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The Department of History focuses primarily on the history of Europe, from the late medieval and early modern period to the present, in a transnational and global context.

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Queer : eine deutsche Geschichte vom Kaiserreich bis heute

Das Standardwerk zur queeren Geschichte Deutschlands von 1871 bis heute. Deutschlands queere Geschichte ist lange vernachlässigt worden. Und so scheint queeres Leben erst in den letzten...

GAMMERL, Benno Bastian
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Queer : eine deutsche Geschichte vom Kaiserreich bis heute

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Nature, resources, and development : historical perspectives on the global environment

Comparativ, 2023, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 537-551  

UNGER, Corinna R.
2023

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Nature, resources, and development : historical perspectives on the global environment

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'A primitive kind of superstition' : the idea of the paranoid style in art, psychiatry, and politics

Commenting on Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Ner vous Illness, Sigmund Freud observed that in publicizing the religious and apocalyptic visions he had experienced during his psychiatric...

GUILHOT Nicolas
2023

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'A primitive kind of superstition' : the idea of the paranoid style in art, psychiatry, and politics

Working Paper

From mystical to morbid love : the emergence of sexual science and gender ideology in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic

This paper investigates the construction of Ottoman/Turkish sexual scientific knowledge and gender norms in the early twentieth century. It traces the shifting definitions of love and explores how...

KILIÇ Gözde
2023

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From mystical to morbid love : the emergence of sexual science and gender ideology in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic

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The Sarajevo tobacco factory strike of 1906 : empire and the nature of late Habsburg rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina

In May 1906, the Habsburg protectorate of Bosnia and Herzegovina experienced an unprecedented level of labor unrest. The discussions between civil servants and workers that arose from these events,...

TRODE Rachel
2023

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The Sarajevo tobacco factory strike of 1906 : empire and the nature of late Habsburg rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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In memoriam: Peter Hertner

The EUI mourns the loss of Peter Hertner, who passed away on 26 April 2023. Hertner was a former Research Assistant at the EUI History Department from 1981 to 1986. Subsequently, he was a full Professor until 1988 and the Director of the EUI Library until 1995.

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Scholars meet actors: Jacopo Cellini presents archival work on the EIB

An Alcide de Gasperi Centre event provided a forum for exchange between academics working on EU environmental history and policy, practitioners from the European Investment Bank, and archivists responsible for the European Investment Bank archives held at the HAEU.

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Exploring the Asian origins of global capitalism

The ERC project "The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism: European Factories in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800" (CAPASIA) is under way. Principal investigator Giorgio Riello and Senior Research Fellow Michael O'Sullivan outline in an interview their ambitions and the challenges ahead.

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