L’alimentation des sociétés urbaines : une cure de jouvence pour l’agriculture des territoires métropolitains ? by Caroline Brand, Serge Bonnefoy

“…We question ourselves about the potential link the supply of food for urban societies could be for the relations between the city and its agricultural periphery.Since the Second World War, the food of industrialized societies has evolved deeply and rapidly, changing the relationship with the territory. …”
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Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945 – 1952 by Mire Koikari

“…On August 15, 1945, World War II came to an end with Japan's unconditional surrender. …”
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L’évolution de la philanthropie juive française à l’époque contemporaine (1791-1939) : un essai de synthèse by Laura Hobson Faure

“…This topic is essential for our understanding of Jewish relief efforts during World War II.…”
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Caught between dialogue and diktat – The International Midwives Union 1933–1945 by Anja Katharina Peters

“…However, during the Second World War Mosse was unable to influence the IMU significantly. …”
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Innenentwicklung in ländlichen Räumen zwischen Planungsideal und Akteurinteressen: Der Einfluss von sozialen Aspekten by Jennifer Gerend, Marina Beck

“…The results of a survey were assigned to four spatially coded settlement types: historic town centres, post-World-War II settlement types, settlements from the 1980s and 1990s, and new developments after 2000. …”
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Les débuts d'une revue néo-salafiste : Muhibb al-Dîn al-Khatîb et Al-Fath de 1926 à 1928 by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…Al-Fath, the Egyptian reformist weekly, was established in 1926 in Cairo and it appeared regularly until just after the Second World War. This journal was established by Muhibb al-Dîn al-Khatîb (1886-1969), a Syrian who lived in Cairo. …”
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Expéditions scientifiques dans les déserts iraniens et le mont Elbourz entre 1925 et 1939 by Dominique Lévy-Jahanbakht

“…Following the defeat of Germany in World War 1 and the rise to power of Rezah Shah 1st, a new impetus was given to Iranian and European exchanges. …”
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The Formation of Ethnically Distinct Villages in Jember during the Colonial Period (1870-1942) by Ratna Endang Widuatie, Retno Winarni

“…These migrants eventually settled in Jember and became pioneers for subsequent waves of migration until the Second World War. The entry of Javanese and Madurese people into Jember shaped the physical characteristics of settlements that have survived to this day. …”
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Anarchy Is What Explains the History of International Relations by William C. Wohlforth

“…The breakdown of the Concert of Europe and the outbreak of the devastating global conflagration of World War I are the events that sparked the modern study of international relations. …”
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Le journalisme comme récit théorisé du militantisme chez Teresa Billington-Greig (Grande-Bretagne, 1877-1964) by Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

“…When her feminist commitment made her drop her suffragist activities, she unsuccessfully tried to have a press career as a feminist writer before and after the First World War She could not make a living out of journalism that had newly opened to women but that still confined them to items called ‘feminine’. …”
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Another Genealogy: Art philosophy, politics and personalism. The case of Edgar De Bruyne by Rajesh Heynickx

“…In their eyes, interwar personalism incarnated a harsch criticism of the ‘liberal democracy’ and, at the same time, it formed the preperation of a political formula gaining currency after World war Two: modern Christian democracy. In this paper, I will develop another understanding of the formation and dissemation of Belgian interwar personalism. …”
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Historical development of animal rights in the world and turkey by Aşkın Yaşar, Halis Yerlikaya

“…Increase on usage of animals in experiments reached the lop level In 1960s after 2nd World War and this situation caused formation of a reflex on protection of animals. …”
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Beyond nationalism? The inter-war period and some features of the complex transformation of southeastern Europe by Basciani Alberto

“…In Southeastern Europe, the end of the First World War marked a profound geopolitical transformation and the start of an important and conflicting process of modernisation of the economic, social and political structures of the countries in the region. …”
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The General Condition of Agriculture in Kalmykia at the beginning of collectivization by Namsyr A. Shikhanov

“…The article analyzes the state of agriculture in the Kalmyk Autonomous Region by the end of the 1920s in comparison with statistical data from various historical periods: on the eve of the First World War, during the Civil War and the NEP. The analysis showed that the agriculture of the Kalmyk Autonomous Region, which suffered significant damage during the Civil War and famine of 1921–1922, managed to recover in almost all directions during the years of the NEP, although it did not reach pre-revolutionary indicators. …”
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Reappraisal and neotypification of Phyllachora feijoae by L.C. Costa, D.M. Macedo, R.W. Barreto

“…The type specimen was most probably deposited in the Botanisches Garten und Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B) and lost or destroyed during World War II, and could not be located. The recent recollection of abundant material of this fungus in the vicinity of Pelotas (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) allowed its re-examination and neotypification. …”
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THE BATTLE OF KURSK: HOW THE WESTERN HISTORIANS APPRECIATE IT by A. A. Paderin

“…In the article the author analyses how the largest battle of the Great Patriotic War and the second World War, the Battle of Kursk, is shown in the west historiography: the intentions of the opposite sides, the degree of preparation to the coming battle, the correlation between number of people and military machines, the realization of decreed tasks, the peculiarities of strategy and moving fighting forces for the battle, the mistakes of German side which were the result of defeat. …”
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From the Blitz to the Boer War, Re-presenting (Inter)National and Colonial Wars and Personal Traumas: Craig Higginson’s The Landscape Painter as a lyrical epic by Mathilde Rogez

“…When he sees the young woman who is going to be the new lodger of the bedsit next to his, Arthur Bailey, an elderly painter who now lives as a recluse in post-World War Two London, is suddenly thrown back into the past. …”
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Proiecții (inter) textuale în opera lui Mircea Eliade by Grațiela Benga

“…We were interested both in Eliade’s literature (written after the World War II) and in the articles he published in magazines during his French and American exile. …”
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Hollywood sur la Lune : les « Scientifilms », les Pulps et l’imaginaire science-fictionnel by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay examines how the movies, the movie industry, and a movie consciousness filtered into the pulp magazines during sf’s formative, pre-World War II era. It measures that early film/literature relationship by surveying the primary pulp magazines associated with the beginnings of sf publishing in the United States and framing them in the context that Francesco Casetti applies to early cinema when he suggests that the movies, as a pre-eminent modernist form, provided a kind of “script for reading the modern experience,” one that “not only proposed a reading of that experience, but at times imposed a pattern for its expression and communication” (5). …”
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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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