East European History

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Urban history and modernity in Central Europe

This historiographical review discusses recent literature on cities in modern Central Europe – mainly on Berlin and Vienna – which reflects the great variety of approaches to urban history and underlines the importance of urban history for the study of modernity. The history of urbanisation was a central event in the history of modernity. Especially in the Central European capitals of Berlin and Vienna, where modernisation and urban growth started later and then advanced quicker than in West European cities, all aspects of social, political, economic, and cultural modernity and its consequences can be observed in detail

European universities : an interpretative history

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Shakespeare and Europe: History – Performance – Memory

Shakespeare has been performed on European stages for over 400 years. English strolling players began coming to the Continent in the 1590s and brought with them Shakespeare´s dramas in abbreviated and adulterated forms. Since then Shakespeare´s plays in Europe have served as models for indigenous national theater traditions and as public forums for political subversion. With the growing need for a pan-European cultural consensus since 1990, Shakespeare´s dramas have functioned as spaces for staging the transformation of Europe. As such the history of Shakespeare performance on the European stage is simultaneously an ongoing history, a grand narrative, of the European cultural memory

Forms of European Administrative Action

Chiti examines the various forms of European administration and their associated administrative law systems. Chiti recounts the history of administration and of administrative law in the European Community, examines the main types of administrative action in the Community, and highlights the novel elements and the shortcomings of European administrative law today

Britain and Europe: Post Blair\u27s Election and Pre-Single Currency

This Essay traces the history of Britain\u27s relations with the European Community, now the European Union. It concludes that the Single Currency is key to all future activities of the European Union, as well as to Tony Blair\u27s ability to escape from the \u27mishandling of Europe\u27 curse which has bedeviled so many British premierships

European Regional Development Policies: History and Current Issues

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the European regional development funds do not allow simultaneous achievement of goals of efficiency and equity when they are dedicated to financing transportation infrastructures. The paper first gives some insights on the history and the nature of regional development funds. Then we focus on the degree to which Ireland, Spain and Portugal (but not Greece), the main beneficiaries of regional policies, have been able to move to the European average (in terms of per capita income) since their membership in the EU, which also corresponds to the time when regional assistance was initiated in these countries. Empirical evidence also reveals that income disparities are increasing among regions within each of these countries and this raises the question as to whether the impact of regional funds is or is not rather favorable to this particular convergence pattern, given that one of the primary objectives of regional funding has been to ensure greater cohesion over the whole European territory. The answer comes mainly from the type of infrastructure regional funds finance. Since a significant part of regional funds is devoted to transportation issues, their impact on regional development has to be seen in the light of characteristics of the transport sector and the specific requirements in transport of each individual sector. The paper concludes that transportation infrastructures promote the country's aggregate growth but cannot be seen as an efficient instrument to reduce interregional disparities in Europe.published or submitted for publicatio

Centring Blackness in European History : a European History Quarterly forum

Black History is European History. By placing Blackness at the centre of the historical narrative, historians are transforming the way in which we think of the history of Europe and successfully overcoming intellectual frameworks which have consistently failed to produce accurate, diverse and compelling analyses of European societies. This collection of essays engages with the methodological and intellectual challenges that we, as historians, face when doing so. We conclude that no matter the difficulties, these new approaches have proven genuinely liberating, and it has allowed historians to escape traditional narratives that consistently ignore the intellectual, political, social and cultural contribution of Black people to European History

Economies of scale and obstacles to land reform, Andalusia 1931-36

Proceedings of the Sixth European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, 22-25 March 2006.Publicad