Bulgaria Through the Eyes of Marijan Alkovic and Franjo Horvat Kis by Antoaneta Balcheva

“…The article discusses the impressions of Marijan Alkovic (1879–1953) and Franjo Horvat-Kis (1876–1924) from their visit to Bulgaria on the eve of the First World War, against the background of the dynamic change in the social, psychological and political attitudes of both the individual and various national communities. …”
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The ‘one bright light’ of Life in a Dark Cell: Reading and Writing in Victorian and Edwardian English Prisons by Alice Bonzom

“…Between the 1850s and the eve of the First World War, whether penal administrators favoured or hindered reading, prison libraries filled up and pens were put to paper. …”
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La formation des paysagistes au premier Congrès international des architectes de jardins (1937) by Luisa Limido, Chiara Santini

“…Following the economic, political and social crisis caused by the First World War, the crisis of 1929, and the rise of a new public demand for open spaces for leisure, sports, and recreational activities, garden architects were called on to address profound changes in the commissioning and in the typology, objectives, and scale of landscape projects. …”
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„Ven z pasivity!“ Český konzervativní velkostatek na začátku první světové války by Šárka Lellková

“… At the beginning of the First World War conflicts occurred inside the Party of Bohemian Conservative Great Landowners. …”
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Une alliance de circonstance : l’Italie et les musulmans d’Albanie (1912-1920) by Renaud Dorlhiac, Fabrice Jesné

“…Abstract: Ruling an African empire recently formed, Italy sat foot also in Albania at the beginning of the First World War. While its military intervention aimed at securing the Adriatic Sea, it draws Roma to claim protection over the Albanian Muslims in front of the competing powers in the Balkans. …”
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Des tranchées au NSDAP. Culture de guerre et politisation des députés nazis by Nicolas Patin

“…In historical literature, First World War has been often depicted as a major explanation: the conflict is supposed to have created a “war culture” that would have led to the political mobilization of many Nazis. …”
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Historical and Legal Analysis of Economic Sanctions by E. S. Rodionova

“…It is concluded that the First World War has become the key catalyst for the development of the concept of economic pressure on unfriendly powers, which was legally enshrined in Art. 16 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. …”
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Quand l’album de jeunesse innove pour mettre en scène la guerre by Nelly Chabrol Gagne

“…On the other hand, writing to the limit, chosen by Pef and Dedieu, insists on the preoccupation of confronting the reader with images depicting the horrors of wars massacring civilians or the hellendured by soldiers during the First World War. Finally, contrapuntal writing considers how artists work in pairs. …”
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Independent or Bureaucratic? The Early Career Choice of an Architect at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Germany, France and England by Andri Gerber

“…The need for architects in administrations was primarily a consequence of the rising independence of cities and the necessity to react to urbanization and property speculation, and later for the mass housing programs in the aftermath of the First World War. In this paper the professional reality of architects in three countries, Germany, France, and England will be addressed and the relationship of the profession to the administrations will be analyzed. …”
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Le journalisme comme récit théorisé du militantisme chez Teresa Billington-Greig (Grande-Bretagne, 1877-1964) by Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

“…When her feminist commitment made her drop her suffragist activities, she unsuccessfully tried to have a press career as a feminist writer before and after the First World War She could not make a living out of journalism that had newly opened to women but that still confined them to items called ‘feminine’. …”
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Beyond nationalism? The inter-war period and some features of the complex transformation of southeastern Europe by Basciani Alberto

“…In Southeastern Europe, the end of the First World War marked a profound geopolitical transformation and the start of an important and conflicting process of modernisation of the economic, social and political structures of the countries in the region. …”
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The General Condition of Agriculture in Kalmykia at the beginning of collectivization by Namsyr A. Shikhanov

“…The article analyzes the state of agriculture in the Kalmyk Autonomous Region by the end of the 1920s in comparison with statistical data from various historical periods: on the eve of the First World War, during the Civil War and the NEP. The analysis showed that the agriculture of the Kalmyk Autonomous Region, which suffered significant damage during the Civil War and famine of 1921–1922, managed to recover in almost all directions during the years of the NEP, although it did not reach pre-revolutionary indicators. …”
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Recepcja i rozwój idei eugenicznej na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku by Anna Słoniowska

“…After 123 years of annexation and after The First World War, Poland was threatened by a demographic disaster. …”
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Écrire sur la Shoah avant la Shoah : notes sur Kafka et Levi by Luca De Angelis

“…In his opinion, even though Kafka was “writing in the first decades of this century, at the turn of the First World War, he foresaw many things”. Thanks to a tremendous imaginative force, in the midst of so many “confused signals”, Kafka had foretold, among other things, the inhumanity of Auschwitz. …”
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Reviving/Revising “Lycidas”: Virginia Woolf’s Elegy to Unborn Poets in A Room of One’s Own by Marie Laniel

“…The epitome of late Renaissance pastoral elegy, “Lycidas” haunts many a Modernist poem or novel, from The Waste Land to Ulysses, as a contested subtext, the expression of a poetics of grief that could no longer hold after the First World War, and yet whose grip on the Modernist imagination remained strong. …”
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A CENTURY OF CONSTITUTIONALISM by Cornelia Beatrice Gabriela ENE-DINU

“…In the exceptional framework at the end of the First World War, followed by the union with the Old Kingdom of the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia, Bucovina and Transylvania, the question of a new constitution was raised, to reflect the new political, economic-social, ethnic and institutional conditions. …”
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Orality in War Novels: Different Aspects of Swear Words in Henri Barbusse’s and Ahmadou Kourouma’s works by Joanna Kotowska-Miziniak

“…Although Barbusse’s First World War soldiers do not use the same vocabulary as Kourouma’s child soldiers who took part in the fighting in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 1990s, their language is characterized by the same abusive use of swear words. …”
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FOOTBALL BETWEEN POLITICS, ROYAL FAMILIES AND SPORT: YUGOSLAV-ROMANIAN FOOTBALL RELATIONS 1922–1941 by Nemanja Mitrović, Nikola Mijatov

“…Immediately after the First World War, two states with close political interests and two monarchies with close family ties began mutual football cooperation. …”
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The Ottoman Economy (1870-1913): Preliminary Second-Generation Estimates by Mehmet Bulut, Bora Altay

“…The method and findings of this study make contributions to the recent discussions on the economic performance of the Ottoman Empire, particularly for the period preceding the First World War. This study also suggests new research areas to further improve future studies on GDP and per capita GDP levels of the Ottoman Empire.…”
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COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN CROATIA AND SERBIA UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II by Ljiljana Dobrovšak, Haris Dajč

“…After the end of the First World War, the centre of the Zionist movement moved from Osijek to Zagreb and Belgrade. …”
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