The title workshop 'Narratives of the Servant' suggests major shifts both in the perception of historical discourse and in methodological perspectives of the history of domestic service. Narrative as a common denominator of all papers encompasses the problematique of historical discourse in...

The author studies the European Schools, which are created and run by the European Unio; the majority of the European Schools' population is to be found in Brussels and Luxembourg, and the pupils include many "non-entitled", i.e. children whose parents are not employed by the Union. The schools...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of the localisation of industrial activity in Spain during the second half of thenineteenth century and the effects of economic integration in Spain's industrial geography. First, we review the historical analysis of these changes. Second,...

Current trade liberalization in Europe has stimulated the theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of economic integration on industrial location. The aim of this paper is to analyse, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of trade liberalization and market integration in 19th...

This essay surveys a number of intellectual currents in and about the Weimar Republic (1919-33), and attempts to provide a limited background for understanding the codeterminacy of scientific, cultural, and socio-political crisis. It will attempt to map out the contours of a constellation of...

"Images of Europe", the title of the workshop from which this Working Paper originated, refers to the multiplicity of representations that "Europe" has historically offered. Today we seem to suffer from a dearth of images of Europe, especially in the symbolic field. The essays which compose the...

This paper analyses trade and capital flows relations and compare real GDP growth rates from 1865 to 1913 in Scandinavia and the Southern European countries of Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Cointegration analysis for trade and capital flows with respect to GDP reveal that there is a long-run...

L'utilisation des sources notariales en general, et des inventaires apres-deces en particulier, ont recemment donne lieu a plusieurs travaux remettant en cause leur valeur a l'heure d'analyser en profondeur quelques uns des aspects de la realite historique de l'Ancien Regime comme, par exemple,...

I analyze time-varying risk premia in long-term government securities during the classical gold standard period 1880-1914. I employ a quasi-capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to analyze the time path of systematic risk for a cross section of six countries that adhered to the gold standard to...

This paper presents the work of John Breuilly and Otto Dann in the field of nationalism. They both have elaborated theoretical accounts of nationalism that stress the political character and emplhasise its inherent modernity. The authors will draw some conclusions from the discussion betweem...