Relating Ø/to/in the desert: Scottish World War II Poets in North Africa and the Middle-East by Stéphanie NOIRARD

“…Scottish poets were sent to the African front during the Second World War and their poems, letters or diaries reflect their experience in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, offering sharp contrasts with what is commonly believed or imagined of desert landscapes and the Desert War. …”
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House Vision by Cathelijne Nuijsink

“…The design of the detached house has been at the core of architectural developments in post-Second World War Japan and the subject of a lively discussion among architects about what makes a good home at a particular moment. …”
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Dimensions of Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” Vision in the Eastern Europe of the Post-Cold War: Reconsideration of Nationalism by Oğuz Güner, Emrah Aydemir

“…Following the Second World War, the Cold War initiated a bipolar contest for superiority that would last for decades, and in this era the Soviet Union established communist regimes in Eastern Europe. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The main conclusion of this study is that although Dutch society substantially transformed (economically, socially, politically and culturally) during the 19th and early 20th centuries until the Second World War, it was both the agricultural calendar and the Roman Catholic regulations that determined Dutch marriage seasonality.…”
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The Great COVID-19 Divergence: Managing a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery in the EU by Grégory Claeys, Zsolt Darvas, Maria Demertzis, Guntram B. Wolff

“…Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the biggest global recession since the Second World War. Forecasts show the European Union underperforming economically relative to the United States and China during 2019–2023. …”
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The Architectural Photomontages of Piero Bottoni by Fabio Colonnese

“…In the decade before the Second World War, these techniques provided architects with a visual key to distinguish themselves from the academies’ canonical representation; to seek an affiliation with the European avant-gardes; and to be recognisable in architecture competitions. …”
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Social Mobility in the Balkans: Border Policing Practices Are Potentially Letting Through Mostly the Members of the “Elite Club” by Tibor Bardóczy

“…Although it has been almost eighty years since the end of the Second World War, certain regions are not peaceful even now. …”
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Ksiądz Hitlera. Myślenie religijne na usługach nazizmu by Józef Majewski, Dariusz K. Sikorski

“…Adam argued in favour of the validity of racist ideas of the National Socialism and proposed a Nazi interpretation of the Jewish origin of Jesus, supporting it with an anti-Jewish interpretation of dogmas on the immaculate conception of Mary and the virgin birth of Jesus. After the Second World War, Adam never admitted his Nazi theological and pastoral activity and never apologised for it. …”
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The Lithuanian historian Jerzy Orda by Sigitas Jegelevičius

“…This study is considered to be the first historiographical review after the Second World War and has many features of the survey of written historical sources. …”
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Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk-Alman Askerî İlişkileri ve General Hilmar von Mittelberger’in Harp Okullarındaki Faaliyetleri by Resul ALKAN

“…The German general, who returned to his country with the beginning of the Second World War, attended the talks about Turkey at the headquarters of his country’s general staff, where he informed the generals of the German army about Turkey’s defense power…”
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It Is Not All Because of Socialism — On East-West Differences and Their Origins by Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Wößmann

“…The paper finds that the populations of East and West Germany already differed before the division, that the GDR and FRG were unequally affected by the Second World War, and that selective East-West migration took place during the division. …”
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Building through the flames: Polish-Jewish architects and their networks, 1937–1945 by Emily Roche

“…The start of the Second World War and the German occupation in 1939 strained professional architectural networks but led to the formation of underground workshops, cooperatives, and other groups, whose connections extended from Warsaw through the camps and ghettos of occupied Poland. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…In the months preceding her death, the Second World War was putting all ideas of renewal at bay: to rewrite Britain’s cultural history, whether in the form of a play-poem with Between the Acts (1940) or in the form of a critical literary history had become an urgent act of hope in the midst of despair. …”
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“They paved the Atlantic with books”: William and Jenny Bradley, literary agents and cultural passeurs across borders by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

“…The archive offers privileged access to an array of transatlantic negotiations in the interwar period and post-Second World War era. This article first aims at including the two agents into the communications circuit relevant to book history that unfolds from writer to editor and on to reader, at a time when the book industry became more international. …”
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Fearlessness and Resistance in the Gulag: Estonian Prison Camp Poetry by Rebekka Lotman

“… During and after the Second World War, over 50,000 Estonians were sent to Soviet prison and forced labour camps. …”
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Življenje kralja Petra II. Karađorđevića po drugi svetovni vojni v luči ohranjenih britanskih dokumentov by Blaž Torkar

“…Based on an analysis of British archival documents and published literature, this article discusses the life of Peter II Karađorđević, King of Yugoslavia, after the Second World War. In 1945, the king was deprived of all power as a ruler, and the Yugoslav monarch found himself in exile. …”
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A bolu: costruzioni patrimoniali in Sardegna by Ignazio Macchiarella

“…As elsewhere, the oral musical tradition in Sardinia went through a period of relative crisis after the Second World War, with the spread of new media. The 1980s saw a general reversal of this trend, following a rediscovery of the area in terms of its identity. …”
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La gestion de la santé animale en butte avec la montagne corse : répondre aux enjeux sanitaires et territoriaux du secteur porcin sur parcours by Marie Gisclard, Bastien Trabucco, François Charrier

“…After recalling the close link between the socio-economic transformations that took place inthe Corsican mountains after the Second World War and current pastoral livestock farming practices, it shows that the failure of two public health management policies is linked to the disconnect between the issues at stake in public policy on the one hand and in pastoral livestock farming on the other. …”
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Skinner Sweet, American Vampire by James J. Donahue

“…In the subsequent storylines, Skinner Sweet finds himself at various iconic moments of American cultural history: Hollywood in the 1920s, Las Vegas in the 1930s, and the Second World War. By placing Skinner in these moments, Snyder and Albuquerque select a specific timeline by which to chart America’s development.…”
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A bolu : constructions patrimoniales en Sardaigne by Ignazio Macchiarella

“…As elsewhere, the oral musical tradition in Sardinia went through a period of relative crisis after the Second World War, with the spread of new media. The 1980s saw a general reversal of this trend, following a rediscovery of the area in terms of its identity. …”
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