Master / Licentiates / Dissertations

Here you will find an overview of current and completed PhD and Master's theses in the field of history at Swiss universities. Compiled in collaboration with the Swiss Historical Society (SSH)

You will find copies of the competed works in the library of the university where they were drafted.

Status: 2025/2026

A European Political-Economic Space That Embraced Japan: The International Context of the Conventional Tariff Network, ca. 1892-1914

AutorIn Name
Toshiki
Kawashima
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Marc
Flandreau
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2025/2026
Abstract



Numerous commercial treaties concluded among the countries in Europe and Asia between 1891 and 1914 formed an extensive conventional tariff network, which embodied a mechanism that more...

A Family Enterprise: The Curial Career of Federico IV Borromeo (1617-1673)

AutorIn Name
Samuel
Weber
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Christian
Windler
Institution
Historisches Institut
Place
Bern
Year
2017/2018
Abstract
This project reconstructs the career of cardinal Federico IV Borromeo (1617-1673) by placing it in the broader context of the reproductive strategies of his Milanese family. In studying curial more...

A global history of ship's ballast in the 19th century

AutorIn Name
Paul
Blickle
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Corey
Ross
Institution
Europainstitut der Universität Basel
Place
Basel
Year
2025/2026
Abstract

Im Rahmen meines Dissertationsprojektes untersuche ich die Geschichte von Schiffsballast im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Als Ballast bezeichnete man kommerziell wertlose Materialien, die man zur more...

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