‘The South! something exclaims within me’: Real and Imagined Spaces in Italy and the South in Vernon Lee’s Travel Writing by Leonie Wanitzek

“…Lee’s essays – published between 1897 and 1925 but all written before World War I – construct two distinct but related tropes of ‘Italy’ and ‘the South’. …”
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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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DETERRING AND THREATENING IN THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: A GAME THEORY PERSPECTIVE by Adelina Andrei

“…Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 marked a significant turning point in the post-World War II history of Europe, with the realist and idealist views on international relations offering contrasting interpretations of its underlying sources. …”
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A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet by Efstratios D. Athanaselis, Apostolos Fyllos, Nikolaos Stefanou, Socrates E. Varitimidis, Dimitrios Giannikas

“…Excision of a tumor-like soft tissue mass revealed a 75-year-old World War II bullet fragment of which patient was unaware. …”
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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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The West and the Rest of Us? by Masilo Lepuru

“…Their project of African Independence as undergirded by Pan-Africanism sought to challenge the West as the embodiment of slavery and colonialism (Chinweizu 1975) not only on the continent where it created colonies but the post-World War II dispensation. Many of them propagated socialist sentiments and objectives. …”
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The 2nd Guards Tank Army in the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by V. O. Daynes

“…One of the greatest battles of the Great Patriotic and also the World War II took place on the outskirts of the capital of Nazi Germany on April 16, 1945. …”
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Distance without Remoteness: The Objectivist Poetics of Nonmimetic Pain by Xavier Kalck

“…This article then proposes to compare three excerpts––all written after 1945––from the work of three US poets (George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff and Louis Zukofsky) which all deal with the experience and trauma of World War II. In doing so, this article will show how all three attempted to produce accounts of, or to reflect upon, what had taken place in a way that would not allow for any forms of aestheticization and that would show extreme caution when engaging with readers’ sensitivities. …”
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Écrire sur la Shoah avant la Shoah : notes sur Kafka et Levi by Luca De Angelis

“…In his opinion, even though Kafka was “writing in the first decades of this century, at the turn of the First World War, he foresaw many things”. Thanks to a tremendous imaginative force, in the midst of so many “confused signals”, Kafka had foretold, among other things, the inhumanity of Auschwitz. …”
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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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An Investigation on the Link between International Labor Migration and Undocumented Employment: Evidence from Turkish Cinema by Hasan Yüksel

“…The reason is that Germany desired to meet its employment needs so as to develop in an industrial way following World War II, which was a real catastrophe for Germans. …”
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Akty prawne w zakresie cła granicznego i ich rola w ochronie bezpieczeństwa ekonomicznego Rzeczypospolitej Polski w latach 1919-1924 (próba analizy problemu)/ Legal Acts in the F... by Andrzej Wawryniuk

“…Tariffs have multiple functions to perform, the most important of which is undoubtedly the economic function. After World War I, i.e. in the initial period of the existence of the Republic of Poland, various customs offices were established, which, in addition to the imposed and collected duties, were also to protect the Country’s borders against the penetration of hostile elements, including armed diversionary groups, arms transfers, thus defending the safety of citizens and at the same time provide the state budget with a significant inflow of means of payment. …”
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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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Gréckokatolícki mučeníci z obdobia neslobody 1939–1989 by Peter Borza

“…Among the presented figures are the bearers of the title Righteous Among the Nations, award-winning in Israel for unconditional aid to Jews during World War II, as they were risking the loss of his life and lives of family members for saving the racially and religiously persecuted. …”
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Reviving/Revising “Lycidas”: Virginia Woolf’s Elegy to Unborn Poets in A Room of One’s Own by Marie Laniel

“…The epitome of late Renaissance pastoral elegy, “Lycidas” haunts many a Modernist poem or novel, from The Waste Land to Ulysses, as a contested subtext, the expression of a poetics of grief that could no longer hold after the First World War, and yet whose grip on the Modernist imagination remained strong. …”
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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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“The Workshop for the Nation’s Soul” vs. “A Rabbi Factory”—Contrasting the Lithuanian Yeshiva with the Rabbinical Seminary by Asaf Yedidya

“…The Lithuanian rabbis held to the supremacy of the Lithuanian Yeshiva model. However, until World War II, they saw the Orthodox rabbinical seminary as an institute suitable to its time and place—Germany, most of whose Jews were liberal—and did not consider it able to produce a Torah scholar worthy of his name. …”
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Emergence et développement des dispositifs d’accès au logement : quelle place pour les handicapés psychiques ? (Europe occidentale-Amérique du Nord, milieu du XIXe-début XXIe siècl... by Gwenaëlle Legoullon

“…Formulas for accommodation and medical care outside the walls were diversified, but initially remained limited. The post-World War II period, marked by the rapid development of open hospitalization and the emergence of pioneering schemes aimed at integrating or reintegrating patients into the community (with their families, in their neighborhoods, etc.), favored the search for solutions to house some patients outside hospitals. …”
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