Les révolutions arabes entre césures et remembrances : tiers-mondisme, question palestinienne et utopies chiliastiques by Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

“…The radical novelty of these revolutionary processes may even have established fundamental breaking points from elements that were associated to the concept of “revolution” in the Arab world throughout the twentieth century, such as the common underlying notion of Third World, the commitment to the Palestinian cause, and finally the chiliastic and revolutionary dimension of revolutionary upheavals such as they were envisioned at that time. …”
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Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption, and Narratives of “Progress” by Esther Wright

“…In both popular and historiographical discussions of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the successive waves of popular culture that have come to represent Westward expansion and colonization, there has been much negotiation and debate over the nature and meaning of “progress.” …”
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Orgasm. On the flux and flow of a term through times and spaces by Christina Goestl

“…It was not until the twentieth century that “orgasm” became an exclusively sexual term. …”
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Quand l’album de jeunesse innove pour mettre en scène la guerre by Nelly Chabrol Gagne

“…Hence, when it comes to children’s picture books on twentieth century conflicts, some of the boldness of pictorial and publishing creation will be highlighted.…”
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Españolas exiliadas y emigrantes : encuentros y desencuentros en Francia by Alicia Mira Abad, Mónica Moreno Seco

“…The Spanish colony in France changed during the twentieth century. Each successive wave of Spanish men and women presented new characteristics: sometimes this made life together difficult, but there were also many similarities, which were made stronger by daily interactions. …”
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Power at play in paranormal history by Christine Ferguson

“…I suggest how a new curatorial approach to the materials might reject the familiar – and largely inaccurate – narrative of deliberate hoax and deception still widely attached to the case, and instead use them to tell a new story about the technological experimentation, artistic aspirations and social restrictions experienced by working-class girls in early twentieth-century Britain.…”
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ATTEMPTS TO LEGITIMIZE POLITICAL POWER IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS FROM THE COLONIAL TO THE POST-COLONIAL PERIOD by Nguyễn Văn Bắc

“…The Central Highlands were, until the early twentieth century, a sparsely populated and poorly developed area with limited contact with the outside world, inhabited by a multitude of diverse ethnic groups (Nguyen, 2019, tr. 5). …”
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La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX by Víctor Octavio Hernández Ávila

“…At the beginning of the twentieth century, the eugenics movement become popular in various parts of the world. …”
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Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social by Alexis Piat

“…The rise in importance, during the second half of the twentieth century, of « new social movements » (feminism, anti-racism, ecology, LGBT movement), centered on antagonisms other than class antagonisms, thus led it to be considered a largely obsolete framework for analyzing social conflicts. …”
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Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Microplastics by Yun-Ya Yang, Ignacio A. Rodriguez-Jorquera, Maia McGuire, Gurpal S. Toor

“…We live in a world where we are surrounded by plastic: from packaging materials and cutlery to plastic appliances and medical devices. Since the mid-twentieth century, plastic has been a boon to humanity and an integral part of our modern lives. …”
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The Greek shamans, the Scythian Psychonauts and the Spirit of Eranos by Putnik Noel

“…By analyzing the theoretical premises and methodological approaches of these scholars, as well as the scientific community’s feedback, I aim to contextualize the thesis of Greek shamanism more closely within the intellectual currents of the twentieth century and earlier periods. My conclusion is that this thesis must be viewed in the broader context of the desacralization of contemporary society, indicating a strong interweaving of personal, non-scientific, and religious beliefs with academic studies of religions.…”
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Un architecte hygiéniste au service de l’Hôpital général de Paris à la fin du xviiie siècle by Marc Lauro

“…In this position, he was commissioned to build or maintain numerous hospital buildings, many of which disappeared in the early years of the twentieth century, like the Cochin Hospice or the Pitié infirmary. …”
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Laying The Foundations: New Beacon Books, Bogle L’Ouverture Press and the Politics of Black British Publishing by Philippa IRELAND

“…Drawing on previously unpublished interviews with Sarah White and Eric and Jessica Huntley, this article compares the work of two pioneering black publishing houses in Britain in the latter half of the twentieth century, New Beacon Books and Bogle L’Ouverture Press. …”
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Science-fiction féministe, des œuvres aux fans by Hélène Breda

“…This article deals with the female and feminist science fiction fandoms from the second half of the twentieth century to the 2010’s. It aims to show that, even though SF has often been considered as a male-dominated cultural arec (from authors to audiences, and for character representations), many female readers and spectators appropriated the genre. …”
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Culture and Literary Criticism in the 1930s and '40s.The Case of F.R. and Q.D. Leavis by Jean-Christophe MURAT

“…This article offers a revaluation of the position of the two famous Cambridge critics F.R. and Q.D. Leavis in twentieth-century literary studies, with particular reference to the 1930s and '40s. …”
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‘Messianic Fraternity’: Anticommunism in the General Conferences of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate by Carlos Piccone-Camere

“…This analysis highlights the Church’s internal tensions and contradictions and the broader impact of its anticommunist stance on Latin America’s sociopolitical and religious dynamics in the twentieth century.…”
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La bourrée et ses mythes by Françoise Étay

“…The collectors of the late twentieth century may have seemed more rigorous than their predecessors, generally - not always - taking a cautious distance from hazardous hypotheses evoking prehistoric or, more modestly, Gallic origins. …”
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La maison et le jardin de Maurice Ravel à Montfort-l’Amaury (Yvelines) by Agnès Chauvin, Marie-Hélène Didier

“…More generally, they represent a place of memory associated with French music and French arts at the beginning of the twentieth century. For specialists, they constitute a real exhibition about the artist. …”
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La mécanique des fluides en France dans la première moitié du xxe siècle by Charru, François

“…French fluid mechanicians of the first half of the Twentieth Century, unlike their illustrious predecessors, appear scarcely mentioned in textbooks and reviews. …”
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Nascita di un nome. Esercizi di memoria sul patrimonio immateriale della dieta mediterranea by Elisabetta Moro

“…Indeed, this expression dates back only to the second half of the twentieth century. After collecting witnesses and analyzing the sources, Moro points out that Ancel Keys and Margaret Haney Keys, the discoverers of this way of life, invented this successful expression. …”
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