John Piper et Benjamin Britten : le renouveau de l’opéra anglais et ses décors by Sophie Aymès

“…In this article, John Piper’s contribution to the renaissance of English opera is considered in the wider context of the artistic and political reconstruction of England after the Second World War. During the War, Piper was one of the artists who redefined Englishness. …”
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Militantisme féministe et pouvoir politique : parcours de deux parlementaires féministes belges (1945-1960) by Catherine Jacques

“…During the inter-bellum, women eligibility remained symbolic: only six women sat in the Parliament. After the second World War, these somehow deceiving results were countered by the entrance within the Parliament of two notorious feminists who sat there for 15 years. …”
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Theories of the End of the Novel by Barış Mete

“…In the twentieth century, especially after the end of the Second World War, the novel became the subject of the discussions about a sense of an ending. …”
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Městská správa v době nacistické okupace. Příčiny a důsledky vzniku Velké Ostravy v roce 1941 by Lubomír Nenička

“…The analysis of particular examples based largely on unpublished archival sources and newspapers can be used as a base for forming more general conclusions concerning nature of the German occupation policy during Second World War. …”
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How far it is gone in the Soviet historiography from H. Lowmianski's study about the genesis of Lithuanian state by Edvardas Gudavičius

“…However, the situation led to the misunderstanding of this excellent book. The Second World War broke all scientific work, and the severe ideological regimentation of the Soviet occupant power did not let the research on the state's formation theme proceed. …”
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Les écrits philosophiques d’Yves Simon aux États-Unis (1939-1945). Essai de biographie intellectuelle by Bernard Hubert

“…Simon, who was a lecturer from 1938 at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, published, on the one hand, Nature and Functions of Authority (1940) and, on the other hand, several writings in English about political philosophy (“Liberty and Authority”; “Thomism and Democracy”; “Beyond the Crisis of Liberalism”) in 1941-1942. During the Second World War, as he was worrying like other European intellectuals about France’s situation under the Vichy regime, Yves R. …”
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Perspectivas da agricultura sustentável no Brasil by Rosângela Ap. de Medeiros Hespanhol

“…The process of technological incorporation happened in the agriculture along the history and, more precisely, the diffusion of the Green Revolution package after Second World War produced several socio-environmental implications. …”
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What Do Closed Mountain Roads Tell Us About Territories? A Critical Analysis of Abandonment, Re-Appropriation and Valorisation in the Vercors (19th-21st Century) by Emma-Sophie Mouret

“…Most of these roads were built to transport wood but rapidly became tourist routes. After the Second World War, the roads started being used more and more as daily transit increased. …”
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Espace urbain et gentrification aux États-Unis, évolution des interprétations by Laurence Gervais-Linon

“…Industrial neighborhoods that turned into slums then ghettos with the changing of the American economy and the post Second World War urban sprawl are today encountering "revitalization," "urban renewal" and "gentrification."…”
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Les Arméniens communistes en France, une histoire oubliée by Astrig Atamian

“…In her recent book on the Armenians of Vienne (Isère), Anahide Ter Minassian asserts that amongst the “Viennese workers […], Armenian communists where influent before, after, and during the Second World War”. However, how can one explain that none of the works concerning Armenians in France investigate this phenomenon in detail? …”
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Les activités à visée philosophique en maternelle. Histoire française et actualités d’une pratique by Jean-Charles Pettier, Edwige Chirouter

“…Tortel within the framework of the pedagogy of initiation after the Second World War. Their current development was made in France according to original and diverse modalities (methods), often ignoring the model introduced by Mr. …”
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Memory’s Seams: Scarcity and Preciousness in Earth Pigments by Eugenia Kisin

“… A naturally occurring carbon-based ‘mineral black’ mined from ancient flood seams in North Devon, England, Bideford black embodies the contradictions of modernity, and how it is felt at social and bodily scales. During the Second World War, the material was mined for its coal-like properties to conceal tanks and ships, while its intense color and oily texture coated eyelashes in Max Factor’s first commercial mascara until it was replaced by blacker polymers—an ambivalent form of synthetic mimicry and that displaces mining by way of plastics. …”
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The Stories that Make Us: European Holocaust Narratives and the Promise of Albanian Cosmopolitan Memory Practices by Kailey rocker

“…In particular, I focus on post-1991 efforts by local historians and politicians as well as foreign amateur and expert historiographers to exemplify Albania as a safe haven for the Jewish community during the Second World War and more recent efforts to commemorate the socialist era Tepelena Internment Camp, which took on the unofficial name of Albania’s Auschwitz during my fieldwork. …”
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“God Damn This War”: Virginia Woolf's Struggle for Peace between the Wars by Velid BEGANOVIĆ

“…This paper analyses Virginia Woolf's non-fiction and fiction writings in the years surrounding three wars which had a direct impact on her life: the First World War which shaped her generation and made her question the sanity of the society that went on living as if millions had not perished in vain, the Spanish Civil War to which she lost her nephew Julian Bell and which would become one of the driving forces for her book-length anti-war essay Three Guineas (1938), all the way to the Second World War that would eventually play a significant role in her ending her life. …”
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Anthropisation et maladies à tique : l’exemple de la borréliose de Lyme by Boulanger, Nathalie

“…Changes in forestry and the expansion of certain wild ungulates since the Second World War could explain the increasing presence of this tick in our environment. …”
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“Einstein’s Dentist” (Hans Sachs) and Restitution Claims Concerning a Nazi-Looted Poster Collection by Mateusz Maria Bieczyński

“… This article delves into the ongoing issues surrounding the restitution of artwork stolen by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. It highlights the less-explored case of German dentist Hans Sachs and his extensive poster collection, shedding light on the challenges faced by heirs of Nazi-looted art and revealing the stance of German cultural institutions and courts. …”
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‘As Though It Were A Sacred Relic’: The Troubled Holocaust Poetry of Julian Tuwim by Myer Siemiatycki

“…Living in exile during the Second World War, Tuwim was among the first major European literary figures to write Holocaust poetry as genocide was being perpetrated. …”
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La propagande arabe anglaise vers le Maghreb pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1943) by Fayçal Cherif

“…In the context of Second World War and its impact in North Africa, propaganda destined for Arab populations takes multiform aspects: radio, newspapers, leaflets, etc.. …”
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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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»V imenu narodov Jugoslavije!« Procesi pred vojaškimi sodišči poleti 1945 by Mateja Čoh Kladnik

“…In the aftermath of the Second World War, in May 1945, the first court-martial proceedings started in Slovenia; the convicted were mostly civilians, with very few military personnel among them. …”
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