In 1877 the Austro-Hungarian Hugó Meltzl warned his colleagues: U+201CAs every unbiased man of letters knows, modern literary history, as generally practiced today, is nothing but an ancilla historiae politicae [U+2018handmaiden of political historyU+2019]U+201D. At the time, Europe was dominated by the five powers of the U+2018Vienna SystemU+2019 (after the 1815 Congress of Vienna): England, France, Prussia, Austria and ...
In this study I examine the ways in which ‘Europe’ has been built as a mnemonic community based on a shared past. Numerous academics and practitioners have argued for the emergence of a ‘European memory’ – i.e. a shared narrative about the past as an instrument to strengthen a sense of common European identity across populations in Europe. Over the last 30 years EU institutions and political elites have been promoting this approach – i.e. the ...
This project investigates the national idea of integral Yugoslavism as it was fixed by the state during the royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia (1929-1935). It will focus on the way Yugoslav national identity was defined, how that national consciousness was spread and the interaction with other forms of national thought in Yugoslavia during this period.
A method of Agrobacterium mediated transformation of Maesa lanceolata, M. perlarius, M. Balansae, and M. argentea has been developed. Thes plants will be transformed with an expression cassette driving the expression of U+03B2-amyrin sythase as well as hairpin constructs to reduce native gene expression. The quantitative and qualitative aspects of saponin production in these transgenic lines will be analysed.