La « révolution » de 1964 et la commémoration de l’indépendance brésilienne by Maud Chirio

“…This paper aims at exploring what links nationalism and Historia Patria, to the military who lead Brazilian State from 1964 to 1985. …”
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„Cartea românească de învăţătură” a mitropolitului Varlaam al Moldovei. Izvoarele şi originalitatea by Dan Zamfirescu

“…What is its value in the history of Post-Byzantine Orthodox preaching and of Romanian literature and theology?…”
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Hiérarchies urbaines et transitions énergétiques: une approche évolutive en Europe de 1800 à 2010 by Maximin Chabrol

“…This paper examines relationships between energy consumption and urban hierarchy evolution from 1800 to 2010 in France, Italy, Spain, England and Wales, Sweden and Netherland. …”
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ONSET OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER EPIDEMIC IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) by K. N. Gruzdev, N. V. Lebedev, A. K. Karaulov

“…The paper presents the history and analyzes onset of ASF manifestations in the EU countries in 2014. …”
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The global engineering deans council: transforming engineering education in a time of change by A. K. Ashmawy

“…The paper presents the history of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) creation and activities carried out by this international educational organization. …”
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Saer versus Aira: versões de uma antropologia especulativa by Antonio Marcos Pereira

“…The paper proposes a confrontation of the work of two authors, Juan José Saer and César Aira, markedly different in the structures of reception their works bring forth, and that we might translate particularly in the way their relationship with “the contemporary” is perceived, resulting in specific placings in certain genealogies and in the production of their respective inscriptions in recent literary history in Latin America. …”
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Écrire la différence : une relecture politique des nouvelles de Sylvia Plath by Federica DORIA

“…In conclusion, this article retraces the evolution of Plath’s political awareness as well as her new interest in History and in her contemporary socio-political world.…”
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WORLD ENGINEERING EDUCATION FORUM 2014 IN DUBAI by Hans J. Hoyer, Stephanie Cheng

“…The paper describes the World Engineering Education Forum 2014 in Dubai (WEEF 2014). …”
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Proto-maya y lingüística diacrónica. Una (breve y necesaria) introducción by José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente

“…A (brief and necessary) introduction. The goal of this paper is to underline the importance of the diachronic linguistics and the possibilities which it offers from the interdisciplinary perspective. …”
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“Queen of the fields”: Slavery’s Graphic Violence and the Black Female Body in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013) by Hélène Charlery

“…This paper examines Steve McQueen’s strategy in 12 Years a Slave, which consists in filming the horrors of slavery through a narrative construction that mostly concerns Solomon Northup, a “temporary” slave who survives slavery, and a visual construction centered on Patsey, a “permanent” slave who is born and dies in slavery. …”
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Country image and branding of Slovakia by Katarína Kleinová, Johana Űrgeová

“…The paper points at some points of country marketing, for example how European countries could be successful in the situation of global competitiveness, not only taking into account their history or culture but also in the area of product image, such as a country of origin. …”
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Un « monument de papier » pour célébrer et réinventer la Bolivie du Premier Centenaire de l’Indépendance by Françoise Martinez

“…The commemorative phenomenon, the keystone of the construction of the national imaginary, has been used often in the service of integrating an official history into the collective memory. This work studies the official image of the Bolivian nation, proposed in 1925 during the celebrations of the “first centenary of the Independence,” through the elaboration of a real “monument of paper” sponsored by the government of Bautista Saavedra: Bolivia en el primer centenario de su Independencia. …”
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Indianismo, política y religión en Bolivia (2006-2016) by Verushka Alvizuri

“…From the beginning of his presidential mandate in 2006, Evo Morales has shown his loyalty towards a sumptous “indigenous religion”, very different from the “oppressed religion” of native Andean  as identified by Liberation theologians during the 1970s. This paper questions the relevance of concepts such as “New-Indian religion” and “Andean religion” commonly used to name it. …”
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Augusto Pinochet U. y la memoria heroica de la dictadura cívico-militar en Chile (1973-1989) by Paulina Pavez Verdugo

“…This paper examines some symbolic dimensions of “Pinochetismo” during the Chilean post-dictatorship period by analysing the social practices and representations built around the figure of Augusto Pinochet that have made possible for some sectors of the Chilean society to build and legitimize a heroic memory of the dictatorship. …”
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Le traité de Fort Jackson, 9 août 1814 by Jean‑Marc Serme

“…This paper aims to show the motives and goals of the different actors of the War of 1812 as expressed through the Muscogee Creek War (1813‑1814). …”
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Writing the Greek Revolution: Harry Mark Petrakis’s The Hour of the Bell by David Roessel

“…Petrakis’s novels about the Greek Revolution are the most significant efforts by an American author, in this case a Greek American author, to place the narrative of the struggle in front of an American public. This paper uses the journal that Petrakis kept while writing The Hour of the Bell to examine his thoughts and motives in the composition of the book, with close attention to Petrakis’s reading of the American philhellene Samuel Gridley Howe’s contemporary history of the war. …”
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Chevaux travaillés et chevaux qui travaillent : réflexions sur la notion de travail dans l’univers équestre by Léa de Boisseuil

“…Looking back over the history of the word ‘work’ in the French language, this paper proposes an enlarged appreciation of the working relationship between men and horses, relationships that cannot be reduced only to productive and working activities. …”
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Esthétique du kitsch et ruralité dans le cinéma irlandais by Isabelle Le Corff

“…This paper revisits the history of Irish cinema, in connection with the socio-political context that produced it, through the prism of kitsch. …”
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New dimension in vortex electro-magnetic wave transmission with orbital angular momentum by Chao ZHANG, Yuanhe WANG

“…Method:This paper analyzes the physical characteristics of the EM wave with OAM and traces back to the history of the EM wave resource utilization and development. …”
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Kleist vs. Musschenbroek – a difficult way to truth by Jerzy Sawicki

“…From the moment of discovery to modern times, scientific publications in the field of physics and history of science often misrepresent the person of the discoverer, the place of discovery and its name. …”
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