La Scuola Rinnovata de Giuseppina Pizzigoni entre droits de l’enfant et changement social by Sandra Chistolini

“…Giuseppina Pizzigoni (1870-1947), founder of the Scuola Rinnovata Pizzigoni in Milan, is one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century Italian education. The 1907 educational plan began with a new building structure based on the experimental method, which is still in operation today. …”
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Critique of Loos’s Anti-Ornament Through Lucretius and Adorno by Levent Şentürk

“…Lucretius’s approach, grounded on Epicurus’ atomism, discloses how nature embellishes and creates existences with this queer principle, starting from atoms, with deviation from end to end. (In the twentieth century, though, we are now aware of the divisibility of atoms and the existence of subatomic particles.) …”
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Espacio urbano y la modernización del alumbrado público en la ciudad de Puebla entre 1888 y 1910 by Edna Hernández

“…For the society of Puebla at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, the introduction of electric light means form part of modern cities, since it took one of the Technological advances of the era. …”
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Therapy culture and the production of subjectivity in neoliberalism by Urošević Milan

“…We begin with a historical overview of therapy culture’s evolution through the twentieth century and its role in neoliberal economic reforms. …”
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Narrowing of glacial isthmus between Sørkapp Land and Torell Land, southern Spitsbergen, 1900–2023 by Michał Pawłowski, Krzysztof Ostafin

“…The region distinguishes itself with notable environmental and landscape transformations since the early twentieth century, the post-Little Ice Age. These ongoing transformations are poised to swiftly convert the Sørkapp Land peninsula into an island, driven by the decline of the glacial isthmus connecting Sørkapp Land to the rest of Spitsbergen. …”
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El bosque en la ciudad: la invención del urbanismo moderno en la Ciudad de México (1870-1930) by Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera

“…The beautification and sanitation of cities of the early twentieth century in Latin America not only sought to liberate them from epidemics that plagued most of the European and Latin American capitals, but such interventions materialized the aura of progress, positioning the cities at international competitive standards as well as stressing the supremacy of knowledge. …”
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The Pro-Boer Representation of War and the Origins of New Liberalism by Françoise Orazi

“…Moreover, the pro-Boer faction was to develop into one of the most significant trends of Liberal thought in the twentieth century, namely New Liberalism. Thus what appears to be a dissenting Representation of War gave birth to a new political movement that reconciled the pacifist and anti-imperialist liberalism that had been advocated by such great liberal figures as Richard Cobden and which was at the heart of Gladstone’s Midlothian campaign and the new generation of thinkers who were in favour of a greater intervention of the State.…”
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A Reflection on Carl Mannheim’s Theory of Cultural Democracy in The Democratization of Culture by Abdolreza Navah

“…Karl Mannheim is a Hungarian-German sociologist and one of the leading figures in the sociology of knowledge during thirty decades of the twentieth century thirty centuries and at the same time with the rise of the National Socialist Party. …”
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Défendre le corps des femmes. Libre pensée et féminisme aux États-Unis (1820-1920) by Auréliane Narvaez

“…As a result, the feminism suffused with anarchist overtones which emerged at the turn of the twentieth century may appear almost fortuitous as its historicity seems untraceable. …”
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De Pictures from a Life à Letters from a Life : exaltation de la vie de Benjamin Britten by Gilles Couderc

“…Mitchell has published a picture biography of Britten, Pictures from a Life, and the composer’s letters and diaries, under the title Letters from a Life, both exalting the life of the hard-working musician, whom Mitchell clearly believes to be one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers. Both works present the same double portraits of Britten and Pears by major photographers, as if duplication could not be avoided. …”
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Californie à Paris: Photographic Circulation and the Making of Imperial Identities, c. 1900 by Carolin Görgen

“…Special emphasis is placed on the contributors’ background and their relationships to local photographer organizations, notably the California Camera Club, which furnished the vast majority of photographic materials for commercial state publications in the early twentieth century. Promotional albums like Californie provided rare opportunities to spread the productions of a remote photographer community to European publics. …”
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Theology Before and After Bishop Robinson’s Honest to God (1963)

“…The thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Bultmann and Paul Tillich, which Robinson summarized in his book, were themselves simply the twentieth century version of the radical changes in theology made necessary by the advent of the post-Enlightenment world, and which had been set in motion in rather different ways at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher. …”
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La derecha chilena y su “nueva forma de hacer política”: la UDI en el campamento Raúl Silva Henríquez (1983-1985) by Alejandra Araya

“…It caused a relevant politicization process, since historically, the locals had sympathized with the left-wing party during the twentieth century. In this respect, the relations between the locals of Silva Henríquez and UDI’s party leaders determined an important social and political dynamic that moves between the housing assistance and the political co-optation of a developing party which practiced a new way of doing politics in the right-wing Chilean party in campamentos made of the poorest people in the city. …”
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Quels enseignements peut-on tirer du PISA : l’exemple des écarts de performances entre les sexes by Maciej Jakubowski, Francesca Borgonovi

“…Concern about gender differences in education in much of the twentieth century focused on the disadvantage and underachievement of girls. …”
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Un dimensionnement des territoires en héritage. Nouvelles tours résidentielles pour un horizon écologique incertain by Geoffrey Mollé

“…Compared to the mid-twentieth century, however, this change in scale bears witness to a significant morphological invariant: what inertia does the continued valorization of vertical architectures signal in the production conditions of tomorrow's housing? …”
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Britannia : Grandeur et infortune d’une allégorie nationale dans l’univers du cartoon britannique 1842-1999 by Gilbert Millat

“…It argues that between 1860 and the 1950s, Britannia striking a solemn pose, that of the Græco-Roman goddess created by Tenniel, exalted Victorian greatness and the early twentieth century great power twice victorious in the World Wars. …”
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Uncanny Beloveds and the Return of the Repressed by Maya Petrovich

“…Finally, in the twentieth century, new paradoxes arose, marking the formerly nomadic Tatars as closely related to the Black Sea and Anatolia, and yet also distinctly exotic and “Asiatic.” …”
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Comparative analysis of Propp’s perspective with Greimas and Bermond about narration from Structuralism viewpoint by Reza Ghanbari Abdolmaleki, Ailin Firoozian Pouresfahani

“…The investigation of basic narrative structures which were followed regularly between formalists and structuralists in twentieth century, has a salient role in literary researches. …”
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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…At the beginning of the twentieth century a quarter of the Earth’s surface was under British rule. …”
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Jòrgi Reboul, un parcours singulier vers l’occitanisme à travers l’histoire du XXe siècle by François Courtray

“…Jòrgi Reboul is one of the great poets of twentieth century Marseille. Known for his innovative literary work which upset the codes of Occitan poetry in the early 1930s, he was also and above all a man of action, engaged in the defence of the Oc language and culture. …”
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