L’économie politique de l’Asie : état des lieux et perspectives de recherche pour l’Asie du Sud-Est by Pierre Alary, Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux

“…Asian and Southeast Asian countries have recorded deep socioeconomic transformations since World War 2. These main transformations are: introduction of capitalist regimes; high growth rates, urbanisation and demographic weight. …”
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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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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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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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Quelle place pour la Grande Guerre dans l’histoire contemporaine du Japon ? Quelques éléments de réflexion à partir d’un témoignage japonais by Frédéric Danesin

“…Mizuno Hironori is as valuable an observer and intellectual as he is a witness (and sometimes actor) of the wars that involved Japan from 1904 to 1945.The evolution and thinking of Mizuno Hironori allows us to not only bring a Japanese testimony – a particular yet lacking perspective on the Great War – to determine the weight of the event for his contemporaries, but also to situate Japan in a historical continuity from 1905 to World War Two.…”
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Roma & Sinti Culture as Modern German Studies by Arushi Nair

“…When the Roma are discussed or invited to speak, it is typically limited to their experience with the atrocities of World War Two, and so their voices become narrowly contextualized before the backdrop of a history of persecution, especially during the Holocaust. …”
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Belief and Disbelief in the Space Between, 1914-1945 by Jean-Christophe MURAT

“…If Hyde’s resignation from the British Communist Party in 1948 was highly publicised by the media, it was mostly the official announcement of his conversion to Roman Catholicism, which he had fought savagely before and during World War Two, that met with the disbelief, and soon earned him the hatred of his former Party comrades. …”
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Roma & Sinti Culture as Modern German Studies by Arushi Nair

“…When the Roma are discussed or invited to speak, it is typically limited to their experience with the atrocities of World War Two, and so their voices become narrowly contextualized before the backdrop of a history of persecution, especially during the Holocaust. …”
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