České evangelické sbory ve východní a jihovýchodní Evropě aneb „Bibli donesli ze sebou...“ by Gabriela Krejčová Zavadilová

“…The localities under study arose as a result of the migration of the Czech population in the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century due to economic and social reasons. Czech settlers helped populate the uninhabited peripheral parts of the Habsburg monarchy, or descendants of Czech exiles outside the monarchy established new settlements to ensure needed subsistence elsewhere at the growing number of inhabitants in original exile villages. …”
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Reflections on a century of road transport developments in West Africa and their (gendered) impacts on the rural poor by Gina Porter

“…It draws on diverse evidence, including twentieth century colonial archives, personal ethnographic field research undertaken over a 35- year period, associated quantitative surveys, and relevant secondary literature. …”
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Reformierte dogmatik zwischen konfessioneller bindung nd der verpflichung zu weiterführender (auch konfessionsübergreifender) theoriebildung by M. Beintker

“… Reformed Dogmatics played a most significant role in the twentieth century. As the publications of K. Barth, E. …”
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Quand les morts reviennent… Réflexion sur l’ancestralité chez les Mayas des Basses Terres by Olivier Le Guen

“…Our approach will be comparative, through time – using colonial and ethnographical data of the twentieth century, and space – contemplating uses and beliefs of two maya groups, the Yucatec and the Lacandon Maya.…”
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The postfigurative Christ in Morley Callaghan's Such is my beloved by F. Hale

“… Symbolic Christ figures, i.e. characters whose lives to greatly varying extents mirror those of Jesus of Nazareth without being fully fledged allegories thereof, were frequently employed as fictional devices in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature as means of expressing diverse qualities, lessons, mores, and values in the modern world. …”
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Mimesis de la douleur chez George Oppen et J. H. Prynne by Xavier Kalck

“…This article means to consider the work of two poets working in the second half of the twentieth century - an American, George Oppen, and a British poet, J. …”
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Dov’è la libertà? by Onofrio Romano

“…Although neo-liberalism appears only in the early seventies in Chile, it is possible to recognize its genealogy and function already in the twenties of the twentieth century, within very different political contexts: here it is characterized by a braking action against the universalization of the modern process of emancipation, promised by the re-distributive logic of centricity adopted by the socialist regulatory alternative. …”
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Economic Rhetoric in the Thought of John Paul II by Ciborowski Robert, Kargol-Wasiluk Aneta, Zalesko Marian

“…The paper shows the sensitivity of the great twentieth-century thinker to economic matters. His thought could be an inspiration for creating and implementing the concept of economic and social policy and then it would be able to constitute a huge potential of guidelines for a better understanding of the functioning of the modern world and building and implementing solutions that can have an impact on improving the human condition.…”
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Fetishism and Form: Advertising and Ironic Distance in Don DeLillo’s White Noise by Adam Szetela

“…This essay uses the historical framework of late twentieth-century advertising to understand issues of characterization in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise. …”
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Conflicting Voices: An analysis of Intralingual translation from British English to American English by Linda PILLIÈRE

“…This article proposes a study of American English editions of British English novels published in the twentieth century from the point of view of intralingual translation. …”
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La « querelle des vernis », une controverse sur le nettoyage des peintures au milieu du XXe siècle by Fanny Girard

“…Dating from the mid-twentieth century and directly preceding the theorisation of modern restoration, the polemic was a moment fort in the elaboration of current principles and practices.…”
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Universal Typeface. Innovation without Style by Dario Russo

“…This school was animated by some of the most significant Twentieth-century artist-designers, from Gropius to Kandinskij, from Itten to Moholy-Nagy, not related to an unambiguous approach. …”
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Le Jardin du Trocadéro : un arboretum dans le parc de Saint-Cloud by Pauline Choulet

“…This was the last major modification of the garden because, since the second half of the twentieth century, there have been no long-term maintenance projects; they are carried out piecemeal. …”
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“Nothing could stop it, nothing”: The Burden of Postsouthern History in Barry Hannah’s “Uncle High Lonesome” by Clare Chadd

“…Close readings of Hannah’s work reveal conspicuously “southern” narratives of historical haunting, trauma and guilt, implying that the burden of history remains a useful means of understanding late twentieth century regional fiction. This paper argues for Hannah’s unique currency in ongoing critical debates, both in the new southern studies and in southern literary studies more broadly, about the future of “South” and the concept of inherited historical memory in a post-regional and post-historical culture. …”
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La vie, la mort et la résurrection des objets archéologiques by Anne-Lise Guigues, Zahra Hashemi

“…Antiquities from Luristan, unknown when they arrived on the art market in the early twentieth century, were first and foremost “collectors’ items” – dealers played a part in ascertaining their aesthetic and commercial value. …”
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BERTRAND RUSSELL'IN FELSEFE ANLAYIŞI ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME by Fikri Gül

“…Bertrand Russell, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, has a unique position in philosophy by his opinions and determinations within the framework of his philosophical understanding. …”
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‘Sentimental’: Since the Death of Little Nell by Dominic Rainsford

“…Leavis, within the specific literary, social and political circumstances of the early- and mid-twentieth century, and which may be due for reconsideration now, in the wake of the ‘ethical turn’ in criticism which marked the century’s closing decades. …”
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L’anticommunisme comme patrie chez les intellectuels péruviens José de la Riva-Agüero et Francisco García Calderón dans l’Europe de l’entre-deux-Guerres by Coralie Razous

“…This case study will also be an opportunity to draw up a short assessment of the historiography of anticommunism in Peru, which is almost non-existent for the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.…”
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Entre el indigenismo y las compañías bananeras internacionales:El origen de las reservas indígenas en Costa Rica, 1907-1956 by Alejandra Boza Villarreal

“…First, scholars have ignored the crucial struggle for land that took place at the beginning of the twentieth century, which pitted the Indians from Talamanca against the United Fruit Company (UFCo.). …”
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Le congréganiste hors la société ? Les dynamiques de laïcisation de la « République radicaliste » au prisme d’une approche d’anthropologie politique (France, 1902-1906)... by Julien Bouchet

“…At the beginning of the twentieth century, France saw a period of republican progress, known as the « Belle Époque ». …”
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