La photographie à la Librairie centrale des Beaux-Arts – Éditions Albert Lévy (1906-1936) by Maud Allera

“…The publishing house’s photographic archives, now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, also find themselves at the crossroads of early twentieth-century decorative arts and photography. From 1928, the publisher seems to have abandoned black-and-white photography in favour of stencil-coloured illustrations. …”
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Clarissa Dalloway’s itinerary: narrative identity across texts by Monica LATHAM

“…The itinerary selected here traces her evolution from the very beginning of the twentieth century, when she is a rather conventional character, to a modernist, then post-modernist and neo-modernist character at the beginning of the twenty-first century. …”
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The long goodbye: the relationship between lleftist parties and the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) after the end of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) (1992-2017) by Mimmo Carrieri

“…This article explores the effects of the growth of the “cartel parties” within the Italian system and the new relations between the unions and leftist parties, going beyond the models and experiences of the twentieth century. One of the consequences concerns the stronger interdependence of the parties and the state, and their need for more public resources. …”
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The Polish Superheroes Have Arrived!: On the Popularity of Superhero Stories and Adaptations by Emma Oki

“…Although essentially a product of the American comic book industry of the twentieth century, superhero characters continue to have a universal appeal and, as Alex S. …”
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 “Here on the Verge of Town . . . I Am Myself” : Selective Western Exceptionalism in the Work of Six Contemporary Idaho Writers by Susan H. Swetnam

“…This paper examines the work of six contemporary Idaho writers born around the middle of the twentieth century who challenge several persistent myths of the American West while firmly endorsing another. …”
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Henri Le Saux et le psychisme by Fabrice Blée

“…Henri Le Saux is one of the great Christian mystics of the twentieth century and a pioneer of dialogue with Hinduism. …”
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Les logiques de la peur : le fantasme de l’invasion en Argentine durant le XXe siècle by Martin Pablo Otheguy

“…It is indeed this generative principle that emerged in the course of the twentieth century a collective fear that structures the social space of Argentina.…”
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Representation and Reception of the Image of the Zulu. From Travel Accounts to the Public Sphere in Mid-Victorian and Edwardian Great Britain (1850–1914) by Patricia Crouan-Véron

“…As opposed to the accounts of the first European travellers (the Boers) who landed in Southern Africa in 1652, most travel writings of the second part of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century were aimed at a wide audience as large extracts from their diaries and travel accounts were published in the press. …”
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Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal by Serhat Uyurkulak

“…The quest for authenticity as an ethical ideal can be observed throughout the intellectual history of modernity from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century. One of the objectives of this study is to support this fundamental claim with reference to the relevant works of certain writers and philosophers selected from different centuries to represent that long period called modernity. …”
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La naissance d’un écrivain national : perspectives et enjeux — le cas de Natsume Sôseki (1867-1916) by Dan Fujiwara

“…This paper aims to describe and analyze how Soseki’s works achieved a large readership during the twentieth century. It all started with the formation of a community of readers who were Soseki’s disciples. …”
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L’avènement de la science météorologique du XVII$^{\protect \mathrm{e}}$ au XIX$^{\protect \mathrm{e}}$ siècle by Beaudouin, Denis

“…This article sets out to show how, over the course of two centuries, a truly scientific meteorology emerged at the dawn of the twentieth century.…”
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Musiques et stratégies de résistance culturelle des communautés afro-descendantes au Brésil : l’exemple du tambor de crioula et du tambor de mina, XIXe-XXIe siècle  by Marie Cousin

“…Indeed, the successive prohibitions and repressions led to the constitution of cultures of resistance which, by a surprising political turnaround during the twentieth century, became icons of regional and national identity. …”
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Introduction au dossier Regards sur le passé : 30 ans de la Société Francophone de Primatologie by Vincent Leblan, Victor Narat

“…The first part, which is devoted to the history of primatology, presents analyses from historians and focuses on the increasing scientific interest for primates as models in medical and cognitive experiments in the twentieth century. It shows how primates always occupy a position of interface within the dualities that structure scientific knowledge: human/animal, civilized/wild, laboratory/field, colony/metropolis. …”
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Cultura do consumo, cidadania e movimentos sociais by Gisela Taschner

“…Furthermore, it is analyzed the convergence among several kinds of political activism, which encompasses consumers¿ social movements, a trend which started by the end of the twentieth century and seems to be gaining momentum. The results found derive from empirical data collected in 1994 in a comparative study about the history of consumer protection, part of which has been recently updated.…”
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Livestock Rendered: Animal Painting, Meatpacking and the Founding Collection of the Frye Art Museum by Kathleen Chapman

“…The collection, assembled by Charles and Emma Frye, who settled in Seattle in the late 1800s, features nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings by European artists, and includes numerous images of farm animals in agrarian settings in which any evidence of modern agricultural advances is absent and idyllic depictions of close, peaceful bonds between humans and domesticated animals predominate. …”
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Processus de (re)territorialisation de l’héritage colonial by Romeo Carabelli

“…After questioning the appropriateness of imagining built heritage as a kind of actor able to catalyse the imaginary to interact with the surrounding space and society, the text sets out the two heritagization processes of these towns re-planned at the end of the twentieth century, recovering the archaeological sites with private and public strategies.…”
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Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“…It takes as its paradigm the life and writings of Thomas Merton (Fr Louis), an American Cistercian monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, who became one of the most widely-read and influential spiritual writers as well as Christian social commentators of the mid-twentieth century. Merton, who often wrote through an autobiographical medium, gradually moved away from an early emphasis on contemplative withdrawal to a belief that the monastic life is a form of counter-cultural solidarity with those who struggle for social transformation and justice. …”
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De Revolutionibus by Franz Josef Brüseke

“…We draw attention to this constellation of ideological conflict within the German "Left" more than one hundred years ago, because it provides the matrix of the disputes and struggles within and between "left" parties during almost the entire twentieth century. In the center of the dispute we found a concept, the revolution.…”
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Maulānā Maudūdī and the genesis of Islamic Economics by Arshad Zaman

“…Moreover, it suggests that these claims not only strain the evidence available, but they also distort Maulānā Maudūdī’s thoughts, and add little either to his formidable stature as one of the most influential Muslim leaders of the twentieth century, or to the dignity of Islam. Instead, it proposes that Maulānā’s economic thought should be viewed as a minor if inextricable component of his social and political vision of a modern Islamic state. …”
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Une ponction dans le fonds Paul Guadet : les plans de pose du revêtement de l’Hôtel Carnot, 1906-1908 by Valentin Gillet

“…Previously only realised in infrastructural projects and industrial buildings, the introduction of reinforced-concrete frames in domestic and commercial architecture during the first years of the twentieth century in Paris required new solutions for the infill and the cladding of such filigree structures. …”
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