Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon by Florence March

“…By doing so, he re-engaged with the festival’s ethos, which promoted democratic theatre as a source of social cohesion in the aftermath of the Second World War. As in 1947, Shakespeare plays a major role in implementing the festival’s sociopolitical and artistic project with Le Pontet penitentiary. …”
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Art, Performance, and Outsourcing in Corporate Art Commissioning: An American Scenario by Charlotte Gould

“…And since performance management is largely the result of the export of American business models to Western Europe since World War II, it makes sense to look for the roots of this phenomenon on that side of the Atlantic.…”
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Experts on the defensive: The Tsiganologue versus Romani activism (1959-1973) by Begoña Barrera López

“… This article discusses the figure of the Tsiganalogue, the expert on the “Tsigane question,” in post-World War II France. Specifically, it analyses the role played by one of these experts in the police persecution of Roma ethnic activism during the 1960s and early 1970s. …”
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Al-Ḥudayyda sous occupation ottomane (1849-1918) by Patrice Chevalier

“…Having just a little hundred inhabitants originally, al- Ḥudayyda’s population grows to 42 000 people on the eve of World War I.Is the cohabitation under the Ottoman administration going to generate exchanges or borrowings between the various communities or not? …”
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Questioning Multilateralism: Conceptual Re-Evaluation and the Decline in the Western Multilateral Order by Tamer Kaşıkçı

“…The Western multilateral order (WMO), which was established under the leadership of the US after the Second World War, and remained unrivaled with the collapse of the USSR, has recently entered a multidimensional crisis process. …”
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The ‘one bright light’ of Life in a Dark Cell: Reading and Writing in Victorian and Edwardian English Prisons by Alice Bonzom

“…Between the 1850s and the eve of the First World War, whether penal administrators favoured or hindered reading, prison libraries filled up and pens were put to paper. …”
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Lecture de Sébastien Farré, La Suisse et l’Espagne de Franco. De la guerre civile à la mort du dictateur (1936-1975) by Rose Duroux

“…The question of exile during the civil war and world war II is also tackled, as the important migratory movement in the sixties.…”
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Entre destructions et reconstructions, le patrimoine sicilien pendant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Giovanni Polizzi, Samuel Romeo

“…The events of the Second World War are here analyzed from the point of view of sensitivity to the cultural heritage, its perception during conflicts and during periods of peace. …”
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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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La formation des paysagistes au premier Congrès international des architectes de jardins (1937) by Luisa Limido, Chiara Santini

“…Following the economic, political and social crisis caused by the First World War, the crisis of 1929, and the rise of a new public demand for open spaces for leisure, sports, and recreational activities, garden architects were called on to address profound changes in the commissioning and in the typology, objectives, and scale of landscape projects. …”
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„Ven z pasivity!“ Český konzervativní velkostatek na začátku první světové války by Šárka Lellková

“… At the beginning of the First World War conflicts occurred inside the Party of Bohemian Conservative Great Landowners. …”
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Refugees, Labour and Sectarianism in Syria under the French mandate (1921-1950) by Seda Altuğ

“…This article analyses the Syrianization of post–World War One refugees in Syria under the French mandate (1921–1946) through their involvement in two interrelated fields: the labour they spent in the opening up of the Jazira to agriculture, and their engagement in the highly contested politics of the mid-1930s. …”
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Une alliance de circonstance : l’Italie et les musulmans d’Albanie (1912-1920) by Renaud Dorlhiac, Fabrice Jesné

“…Abstract: Ruling an African empire recently formed, Italy sat foot also in Albania at the beginning of the First World War. While its military intervention aimed at securing the Adriatic Sea, it draws Roma to claim protection over the Albanian Muslims in front of the competing powers in the Balkans. …”
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Herbert Hoover and the Organization of the American Relief Effort in Poland (1919-1923) by Matthew Lloyd Adams

“…Poland, recreated after the armistice of 1918, was confronted at its rebirth with four very severe challenges: welding together the separate sections of the dissected country, which for many decades had been under the rule of Prussia-Germany, Austria and Russia; creating a functioning administration and military force for the country; ensuring the recovery of agriculture, which, during World War I, had seriously declined; and restarting industries destroyed or closed during foreign military occupation. …”
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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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Peníze, nebo prestiž? Soudní spor o autorství Vančurových Obrazů z dějin národa českého by Bohumil Jiroušek

“…Vančura was executed during World War II but his collaborators became important representatives of the official Marxist-Leninist historiography after 1948. …”
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Anatema capitalismului în presa românească din anii 1949–1950 – campanii – by Lucian Chişu

“…In the years immediately following the second World War, Europe divided into two economic, social and political systems. …”
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Des tranchées au NSDAP. Culture de guerre et politisation des députés nazis by Nicolas Patin

“…In historical literature, First World War has been often depicted as a major explanation: the conflict is supposed to have created a “war culture” that would have led to the political mobilization of many Nazis. …”
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Gastroenterology, notes on its beginnings in the Central Region of Cuba by Ignacio Morales Martínez, Nancy Andreu Gómez

“…Introduction: Gastroenterology was not officially considered an independent specialty until after World War II. The creation, in 1932, of the Gastroenterology and Proctology section of the American Medical Association laid the foundations in this direction. …”
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Jòrgi Reboul, un parcours singulier vers l’occitanisme à travers l’histoire du XXe siècle by François Courtray

“…He became involved in politics with the Parti Prouvençau for the elections of 1936, promoted teaching Provencal at school, founded and ran a youth hostel, assisted both in strengthening ties with the Catalans and in supporting them during the Spanish war. After World War II, he broke with the Félibrige to rally the Occitan wave and the IEO whilst continuing his actions in favour of teaching the Oc language, Catalans and the great fights of the 1960s- 1970. …”
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