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Mutos Xicola, Céline (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
The charity institutions of the early modern Europe have not traditionally been seen as spaces with an economic, and particularly manufacturing, dimension. Although they housed a variety of craft workshops with the aim of ...
Buscató i Somoza, Lluís (Date of defense: 2011-09-12)
The first protective activities of historical and archaeological heritage in the province of Girona (Catalonia, Spain), although some earlier precedents, were produced from the third decade of the nineteenth century. These ...
Villalón Barragán, Sebastià (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
The objective of this report is to study causes and consequences of substituting annuity for obligation in the final period of the Ancient Regime in Catalonia (1768-1840), affording special attention to the regions of ...
Mas Ferrer, Josep (Date of defense: 2023-09-18)
This thesis explores social inequalities during the late preindustrial era, based on a case study from la Selva Interior. The work is organized into three distinct parts. In the first one, inequalities are examined through ...
Rodríguez Ventós, Gerard (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This PhD thesis conducts an examination of Roman expansionism in the Western Mediterranean during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, adopting a distinctive approach based upon connectivity as its pivotal role in historical ...
Iribarren Nadal, Mariona (Date of defense: 2018-01-10)
The thesis presented is a study of some women's movements which claim a recovery of the female body from a feminist and ecologist standpoint and which are currently spreading their influence. It provides a summary of the ...
Suárez Carmona, Luisa (Date of defense: 2011-11-08)
Between 1895 and 1910 Barcelona saw a whole range of social, political and cultural changes due to the increasingly important emergence of the working masses. At the same time, the cinema arrived in Catalonia, becoming ...
Carmaniu Mainadé, Xavier (Date of defense: 2017-06-13)
Miquel Santaló Parvorell (1887 – 1962) was one of the most important personalities of the Second Republic. He was minister of Lerroux, member of the government of Catalonia, spokesman of ERC in the Spanish Congress and ...
Miquel Vilanova, Maria Àngels (Date of defense: 2019-07-04)
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to present the person and work of restorer and professor of history of art Joan Sutrà Viñas (1898 - 1981), in particular within the context of the conservation and restoration of artistic ...
Ventura Almeda, Helena (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
Sluguilla Lawash is the site with a higher concentration of open air prehistoric rock art of Western Sahara. It has 1143 engraved slabs with 2087 motifs, among which the 99% have an incised stroke, with a dark desert varnish ...
Serrano, Lluís (Serrano Jiménez) (Date of defense: 2015-01-23)
La tesi estudia el tancament de finques a Catalunya en el segle XIX. Hem volgut veure les estratègies dels propietaris i les relacions socials problemàtiques a través de l’anàlisi dels discursos i dels usos socials de la ...
Serra Albó, Xavier (Date of defense: 2017-02-07)
Emili Saguer i Olivet: notari, polític i home de negocis (1865-1940) offers us the vision of an individual that lived during a very complex period. He was a notary in Girona, a prominent lawyer and a firm defender of the ...
Sanz Badenas, David (Date of defense: 2024-05-31)
This research study on the generative scores of the Catalan composer Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny (1929-2021) is the first work of this type to include, in full, all of these works in the composer's catalogue. The ...
Rufí Casals, Isaac (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
So as to understand how hunter-gatherer communities faced the climatic deterioration that ended in the last glacial maximum, the research of this PhD thesis is focused on the study of osteoarchaeological remains retrieved ...
Masclans Latorre, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
The present dissertation generates a new data corpus which makes it possible to resize and widen the current interpretative framework about the communities living in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula around the turn ...
Pitarch Fernández, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
This dissertation studies the thought of filmmaker and essayist Jean Epstein, focusing on the motif of the body and the organism in his writings and incorporating his unpublished work into the object of study. Epstein's ...
Fontbona Mola, Isa (Date of defense: 2023-07-12)
This research studies how the body resulting from the practice of bodybuilding can become an element of transgression of traditional gender roles. To do so, we focus especially on the potential we find in the case of female ...
Jiménez Cortacans, Alfons (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)
The thesis "The fail of an utopia. Political communication of fascists groups in Spain, 1931-1936" studies communicative strategies of the following political groups: Las Juntas Castellanas de Actuación Hispánica, La ...
Jiménez Carmona, Susana (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)
This thesis presents an analysis of Luigi Nono’s Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima, as a starting point to investigate that this piece for string quartet provides in terms of the notions of sound and silence, the temporary and ...
Muler González, Vanessa (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
This thesis links the limits of tourism growth and social exchange theory (SET) through tourism impacts perceptions of residents. SET has been the most widely used theory to explain the perceptions by residents of tourism ...