Les stations thermales secondaires de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté by Fabien Dufoulon

“…Often (but not systematically) located away from the rail network and, above all, financially and legally deprived to face local competition, they struggled to develop and declined in the first decades of the early twentieth century.…”
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ORTEGA Y GASSET: NO CAMINHO DA HIPERMODERNIDADE.UMA VISÃO PROJETIVA DA CONTEMPORANEIDADE by CARLOS GOMES

“…In the works of the spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1893-1955), which is one prominent Iberian thinker, there exists a very interesting projective reflection of the figure of culture in the twentieth century, in consonance with Oswald Spengler's pessimistic thought. …”
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Les militantes anarchistes individualistes : des femmes libres à la Belle Époque by Anne Steiner

“…In the early years of the twentieth century, there were women who struggled for the right to free sexuality, spreading advice and methods for voluntary birth limitation; they thought about new methods of education, refused marriage and monogamy, and experimented with communal living. …”
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“Whimsies and Crochets”: Pragmatism, Poetry, and Literary Criticism’s Founding Gesture  by Kristen Case

“…Richards' introduction to The Principles of Literary Criticism, this essay argues, first, that in the early decades of the twentieth century pragmatist epistemology and ethos of participation had a transformative effect on U.S. poetry, and second, that in these same decades, the then-emergent profession of literary criticism refused to absorb the participatory ethos, even as other disciplines, perhaps most notably education and anthropology, were being transformed by it. …”
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A Conspiracy of Silence: The Suppressed Protest of The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath by Adam Nemmers

“…Positioned at the vanguard of the American labor movement, radical writers sought to disseminate Marxist ideology through proletarian literature, especially during the first half of the twentieth century. Because their ideas were branded as essentially un-American, however, novelists such as Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck sought to tell their stories through more popular and commercial channels in order to reach a wider audience than might read periodicals or attend rallies. …”
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THE ROLE OF MONETARY INSTRUMENTS IN ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES. STUDIES OF RUSSIAN ECONOMISTS OF THE EARLY XX CENTUR by I. Nazarova

“…During the process of analyzing the works of Russian scientists of the early twentieth century, the specifics of the monetary instruments of market regulation in the conditions of the “military economy” and the change in the structure of the monetary mass have been considered. …”
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About some limitations in researching the human being. Theological perspective by Andrzej Jastrzębski

“…This is why in a Christian anthropology there is such an emphasis on personalism, which from the very beginning of the twentieth century has been opposed to the treatment of people as obscure elements of matter, or elements be manipulated unquestioningly. …”
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Geopolítica do etanol: soberania energética e projeção internacional do Brasil (1930-2015) by Elisa Pinheiro de Freitas, Antonio Marcos Roseira, Mateus de Almeida Prado Sampaio

“…The economic and scientific-technological development of this energy matrix in the twentieth century is intertwined with the establishment of a geopolitical rationality and the definition of the main Brazilian strategic interests. …”
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Spectrum of spondyloarthritis by Himanshu Pathak, Karl Gaffney

“…Although the occurrence of SpA spectrum disorders has been known for some time, it was only in the latter half of the twentieth century that the concept of SpA was formally defined. …”
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Un palimpsesto urbano: de la Puerta del Sol al 15-M by Nancy Berthier, Marianne Bloch-Robin

“…This article begins by tracing the evolution of the imaginary of the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, which over time has become the theater of the representation of power and counter-power. In the twentieth century, the moving image has fixed the different stages of this power struggle. …”
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Thinking, Totalitarianism, and Tribunals: The Notion of Responsibility in Repressive Regimes by Andreea Norica Bălan

“…Hannah Arendt is one of the twentieth century’s foremost thinkers on totalitarian regimes. …”
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La poesía de protesta social en América Central contemporánea (1990-2020): Guatemala y El Salvador by Dante Barrientos Tecún

“…Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Central American poetry was characterised by accompanying and promoting social movements that sought to transform repressive and exclusion political systems. …”
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Mente e cérebro, ciências cognitivas e ciências sociais by Rodolfo Eduardo Scachetti

“…This paper discusses the traditional philosophical debate concerning body and spirit that has formed a multidisciplinary field of researches about brain and mind in the twentieth century, called cognitive sciences. Among the various divergent positions in this area, three of them had their nuances about the future of this exploited enterprise, and also their relations with the social sciences that basically move in these directions, (i) the defence of the singularity of human sciences' object considered in the philosophical consciousness model as intentionality, (ii) the searching of a biological understanding of the mind, also viewed in this case as intentionality and consciousness, and finally, (iii) the critic of the notions of intentionality and consciousness through the cybernetic and also the cognitive sciences achievements, that can feed a new relation between humans and machines.…”
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Artists in Resi/stance by Volker Küster

“…In this article, I investigate twentieth-century contextual art from an intercultural perspective. …”
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Knowledge as Film vs. Knowledge as Photo: Alternative Models in Early Soviet Thought by Steila Daniela

“…On the basis of some textual evidence, it is possible to describe the epistemologies of the two most influential Russian Marxists at the beginning of the twentieth century using the two metaphors of photography, on the one hand, and cinema, on the other. …”
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Habib Benglia, le « nègrérotique » du spectacle français by Nathalie Coutelet

“…At the beginning of the Twentieth century, a time when “Negro” dance and music became a cultural trend, the Black was perceived as lascivious. …”
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Un manuscrit éthiopien chrétien sur papier (ca. 1755) : une singularité royale by Anaïs Wion

“…The status of this manuscript was high enough to be part of the imperial library at the turn of the twentieth century and then included in the national heritage collection.…”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT (PART 2) by G. Ya. Soroko, I. Z. Kogotkova

“…The history of development and the current state of the theory of project management in the State University of Management are associated with the actual needs of management practice both during the twentieth century and now, because the improvement of the mechanism of project management is one of the strategies for the development of the country’s economy.…”
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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…By reading the novel in conjunction with other texts about spiritualism written in the early twentieth century, we can see how the potentially alternate reality glimpsed in trances, séances, or other spiritualist practice is readily brought into alignment with the singular reality of conventional middle-class existence. …”
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La tête qui fume de l’église de Nārgā by Claire Bosc-Tiessé

“…From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, smoking was stigmatized as a pagan tradition in order to designate the “alien” and, thus, to assert the domination of the Christian State on the region of the Southern Choa. …”
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