Lithuanian DP book connection with Latvian and Estonian DP in West Europe in 1945-1952 by Remigijus Misiūnas

“… Thousands of Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians left their native lands during World War II. They escaped from the second Soviet occupation and spent the post-war years in displaced persons (DP) camps in various West European countries. …”
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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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Jaroslav Goll's school in the Czech historiography (late 19th – early 20th centuries) by T.V. Gimadeev

“…Goll did his best to preserve the school unity up to the World War I.…”
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A CENTURY OF CONSTITUTIONALISM by Cornelia Beatrice Gabriela ENE-DINU

“…In the exceptional framework at the end of the First World War, followed by the union with the Old Kingdom of the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia, Bucovina and Transylvania, the question of a new constitution was raised, to reflect the new political, economic-social, ethnic and institutional conditions. …”
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Antisemitism in Medicine: An International Perspective by Michael Gordon, Jerome Teitel, Ted Rosenberg, Ruth Oratz, Naomi Katz, David Katz

“…Eventually quotas fell, and the period after World War II once again saw a tremendous growth in numbers of Jews excelling in medicine internationally. …”
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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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EDUCATION IN ECONOMIC THEORY by Jasmina Osmanković, Hatidža Jahić, Ensar Šehić

“… This paper aims to show the evolution of the role and importance of education in economic theory, especially in theoretical approaches to economic development after World War II. In order to find answers and to present a current issue why and how certain countries have made progress while others have regressed in the development process, many theories and models explaining processes of growth and development have emerged and developed. …”
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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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The Committee on Public Information: A transmedia war propaganda campaign by Benson Krystina

“…It develops an understanding of how propaganda entered journalism and popular culture in the United States during World War I through an examination of materials created by the Committee on Public Information (CPI). …”
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Wives, Clerks, and 'Lady Diplomats': The Gendered Politics of Diplomacy and Representation in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1900-1940 by Molly M. Wood

“…Foreign Service during the critical pre-World War II era.…”
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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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Seasonality of livebirths and climatic factors in Italian regions (1863-1933) by Gabriele Ruiu, Marco Breschi

“…To achieve this end, we empirically investigate the role of temperature as well as that of marriage seasonality in Italian regions for the period stretching from the Italian unification to the eve of World War II. We find that extreme temperatures (both cold and hot) negatively affect the number of births. …”
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Seasonality of livebirths and climatic factors in Italian regions (1863-1933) by Gabriele Ruiu, Marco Breschi

“…To achieve this end, we empirically investigate the role of temperature as well as that of marriage seasonality in Italian regions for the period stretching from the Italian unification to the eve of World War II. We find that extreme temperatures (both cold and hot) negatively affect the number of births. …”
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Orality in War Novels: Different Aspects of Swear Words in Henri Barbusse’s and Ahmadou Kourouma’s works by Joanna Kotowska-Miziniak

“…Although Barbusse’s First World War soldiers do not use the same vocabulary as Kourouma’s child soldiers who took part in the fighting in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 1990s, their language is characterized by the same abusive use of swear words. …”
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Western scholars on samurai: Stages in studying the Japanese military estate of the 18th – early 20th century by E.A. Pavlovskaya

“…The paper is devoted to the study of the military estate of Japan by British and American scholars since the discovery of the country in 1853 until the World War I. Their transactions are valuable because the authors wrote about samurai during the period when they existed. …”
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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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