A Critical Study of the Book From Crisis to Collapse, Exploration of the Permanence or Collapse of Political Systems by Ebrahim Taheri

“…The culmination of these revolutions was in the twentieth century. In the 21st century, revolutions have become a serious challenge to the political systems of the Middle East and North Africa. …”
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Review of the Book “Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power” by Rasoul Afzali, Mohammad zohdi Gohar, Akbar Valizadeh

“…Therefore, how we can accept that the hegemony establishment by the most powerful government in the second half of the twentieth century, that is the USA, has been a non-governmental process leaves the audience with no answer.…”
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What on Earth! Slated Globes, School Geography and Imperial Pedagogy by Mahshid Mayar

“…Focusing on their production and use in the US context at the turn of the twentieth century, and following an examination of their role in teaching American children the fundaments of terrestrial geography, I probe these now forgotten, blank, black, educational table globes’ capacity in offering a timely “spatial fix” to the prosaic finality of an already overly and overtly known world that the globally rising US Empire was grappling with. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…It argues that this subfield needs to move towards a more meaningful engagement with the social and the cultural, and to incorporate the contributions of recent work on racial capitalism, neoliberalism, the environment, the carceral state, and gender and sexuality in the twentieth-century United States.…”
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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

“…The proposed paper situates the candomblé rituals in Crooked Plow (2023), a contemporary Brazilian novel, within the socio-cultural and political matrices of the plantation communities of the twentieth century. The novel is set in a colonial plantation in Bahai, a Northeastern province in Brazil, where plantations owned by Portuguese colonisers operationalized tenant farming, installing slaves brought in from Africa during the Transatlantic trade as bonded labourers. …”
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A Critique on the Book A Critical Approach to Community-Based Development by Mokhtar Nouri, Homayoun Abbasabadi

“…She has focused both on objective developments in Western societies such as England in the context of globalization and on two philosophical turning points of the twentieth century: the Brazilian philosopher Paolo Freire and the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci. …”
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Lost and Found: The Missing Flamboyant Gothic Door from the Château de Varaignes by Martha Easton

“…In following the journey of the Varaignes portal, this paper will discuss the acquisition of architectural elements from Europe by American collectors in the early twentieth century as both a form of philanthropic intervention, but also as cultural imperialism. …”
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Du surveillant général cerné par les murs au conseiller principal d’éducation, passeur de frontières by Christine Focquenoy

“…The General Supervisor who firmly enforced order and discipline in secondary schools in France in the nineteenth and twentieth century appeared in collective imagery as a strong character nicknamed the “surgé”, a relentless and repulsive character, guarding school walls. …”
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Neo-Kantian Question on Method, the Problem of Form and the Meaning of Variability in Gustav Shpet and Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy by Nikolai B. Afanasov

“…The Kantian legacy has had a key impact on the landscape of theoretical philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. Philosophers both in Germany and in Russia saw Immanuel Kant’s ideas as seminal for their philosophical research. …”
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Spins of Justice: A Critique of Liberal Justice from the Perspective of Libertarian Justice A Critical Review on the Book Statelessness, Government and Utopia by Shahab Dalili

“…Throughout the history of philosophy, there have been questions that the most important of which can be formulated and identified around the concept of justice and freedom. In the twentieth century, the relationship between justice and freedom became more and more important for human societies, and the most important scientific works addressed it. …”
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A Critique on the Book Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Rohollah Eslami, Elaheh Valizadeh

“…In the meantime, Louis Althusser, a French neo-Marxist thinker of the twentieth century, with a structuralist reading, has considered Marx's second period of thought, which is scientific. …”
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Analytical centers in the United States of America by Mitrović Risto

“…The twentieth century in the United States of America brought numerous innovations in all aspects of social life, including politics and engagement in it. …”
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Postcolonialité et archive : le cas du roman de l’après-guerre et l’héritage du conflit armé au Guatemala by Mónica Quijano

“…Its main exponent was the text written by Elisabeth Burgos, Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú, y así me nación la conciencia (1983), where the Venezuelan anthropologist transcribed Menchú's testimony about the injustice suffered by Guatemalan peasant communities during the second half of twentieth century. This discussion allowed to question the legitimacy of literary discourse, seen as heir of colonialism. …”
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How to be Modern: The Darantière Press and Anglo-American Writers in France by Fiona McMahon

“…Darantière’s willingness to print books in a language other than French is a tribute not only to the audaciousness of his enterprise but to the network of influence established among Anglo-American writers, publishers and booksellers in France in the first decades of the twentieth century. What can a new examination of the Darantière collection (Bibliothèque municipale, Dijon) bring to light about the mediation of avant-garde Anglo-American writing in France and what Lawrence Rainey has called the “commodification” (44) of modernist print culture? …”
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Um panorama da literatura sobre a internacionalização das religiões ayahuasqueiras brasileiras by Glauber Loures Assis, Beatriz Caiuby Labate

“…Created during the twentieth century, Barquinha, Santo Daime, and the União do Vegetal, known as the Brazilian ayahuasca religions, were circumscribed to the northern region of Brazil at least until the beginning of the 1970s. …”
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Vladimir Nabokov - purysta językowy / Vladimir Nabokov - a linguistic purist by Monika Grygiel

“…Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-American writer who wrote in two languages, Russian and English, is one of the most outstanding writers of the twentieth century. Nabokov's bilingualism is the source of his success, and this article tries to answer the question: is it the source of the Lolita author's linguistic purism? …”
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Negotiating National Equality in the Austrian Silesian Diet 1905-1914 by Paula Krajnik

“… At the turn of the twentieth century, nationalized conflicts affected all levels of politics in the Habsburg monarchy. …”
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Ciência, construção da nação e exclusão social. São Paulo-Brasil (1889-1930) by Mariza Romero

“…By the end of the Nineteenth century and during the first decades of the Twentieth Century in big Brazilian cities such as São Paulo, there was a great diffusion of hygiene and health patterns which had already been largely adopted in Europe and empowered by scientism, the utmost expression of the progress of science at that time. …”
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A Critique on the Book Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System by Mohammad Javad Nourahmadi

“…Raymond Baker introduces a three-loop interconnected chain of interactions, including lawlessness, inequality, and the philosophy of utilitarianism, as the Achilles' heel of capitalism which has provided the ground for the vulnerability of this system, especially in the twentieth century. Baker considers the restructuring of the free market system and the continuation of the optimal functioning of this system in the 21st century to be subject to serious reforms in the philosophy of capitalism, namely utilitarianism, with an emphasis on the theory of justice of John Rawls and Thomas Pogg. …”
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Modern metal framed glazed façades refurbishment: conservation in the energy and ecological transition by Tanja Marzi, Lorenzo Savio

“…This contribution presents a critical overview of the problems relating to the conservation of metal framed glazed façades built in the second half of the twentieth century. Requirements and standards established by energy and environmental international protocols and Italian regulations are critically analysed. …”
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