The Rape of Lucretia, premier « opéra anglais » de Britten ?  by Gilles Couderc

“…The Rape of Lucretia is Britten’s second opera, composed in the wake of the popular success of Peter Grimes and amidst the composer’s difficulties in sustaining his ambitious project to restore English opera and to set up his own opera company despite the dire post-war economic context. As Britten’s first chamber opera and the only one that retells a story from Roman Antiquity it stands apart in the Britten canon. …”
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Autarky and Openness — Reflections on the Optimal Balance of an Open Economy by Thieß Petersen, Marcus Wortmann

“…Negative labour market effects for individual sectors as well as the disruptions of cross-border supply chain relations during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war have strengthened the desire in parts of the population to reduce export- and, even more so, import-dependency. …”
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Creating Intelligent Pipeline for Telecom Operators Based on Flow Operation by Kefei Liu

“…After restructuring of telecom operators,with market competition increasingly fierce,price war endless,the value of telecommunications continuing to fall,telecommunications operators begin transition from voice operation to flow operation.The paper pointed out flow operation is the key to competitive game and improving the value of the operators.It's imperative to promote the flow by intelligent pipeline business development.Finally,the paper proposed to strengthen the construction of basic transmission facilities,forge flow analysis and operational capabilities for customers' needs,innovate business models and so on to create intelligent pipeline for telecom operators based on flow operation.…”
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De la ventriloquie au trauma by Marc Amfreville

“…Drawing extensively from Freud, but also to a lesser extent from Derrida, this paper, jointly interrogating the figure of the biloquist villain in Wieland, the picture of the aftermath of the Civil War in “Chickamauga” and the 9-11 icon of destruction in Falling Man, endeavors to highlight the parallel and converging lines of psychoanalysis and literature as regards the representation of trauma.…”
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Českoslovenští letci v sovětské internaci za 2. světové války by Ladislav Kudrna

“…Most of them were transported to France but 190 airmen remained in Poland. After outbreak the War 115 airmen were captured by the Red Army. These men went through several internment camps. …”
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Pain Reports by Older Adults in Long-Term Care: A Pilot Study of Changes Over Time by Margaret C Gibson, M Gail Woodbury, Kim Hay, Nancy Bol

“…PURPOSE: To document self-reported pain descriptions throughout residency in a long-term care facility for a convenience sample of older adults (Canadian war veterans).…”
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Food Symbolism and Imagery in the Polish Translations of William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor by Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup

“…The analysis entails all Polish versions of the comedy, both its nineteenth-century renditions and contemporary post-war readings. The research aims to demonstrate how the lexical choices of Polish authors affect the interpretation of the play; in particular, it seeks to answer the question of how the imagery and symbolism of Shakespeare’s food vocabulary were altered in the process of translation.…”
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Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Theatre: British Drama, Violence and Writing by Dan Rebellato

“…Representations of violence have been at the heart of some key movements in post-war British theatre. In the twenty-first century, however, these representations have evolved in a new way, characterised both by an escalation of the scale and intensity of the violence, to a point one could call apocalyptic, coupled with specifically non-realist dramaturgical and theatrical modes of production. …”
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Le secteur associatif en Algérie : la difficile émergence d’un espace de contestation politique by Laurence Thieux

“…The brief period of political openness experienced in Algeria during the late 1980s allowed emergence of a non-profit and voluntary sector undaunted by the civil war of the 1990s. However, this so-called “civil society” is struggling to free itself from the grasp of a strong government, skilful at co-opting and instrumentalizing civil society actors in building its legitimacy both internally and externally. …”
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Programmes & praxis: a review of taken-for-granted knowledge by Leon Fulcher

“…This term has been used extensively in North America since the end of the Second World War but was much less common in the United Kingdom until recent years. …”

The Battle of Stalingrad and the Second Front Problem by V. O. Pechatnov

“…It is demonstrated how deeply the German defeat at Stalingrad affected Anglo-American military and intelligence estimates of situation at Soviet- German front and prospects of the war in general.…”
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La violence seigneuriale à la fin du Moyen Âge, vue par les représentations pédagogiques en France by Pierre Prétou

“…The iconography deployed, continuously since the Second World War, insert systematically crude or discreet representations of violence at the heart of the lordship system. …”
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Passive Resistance. Notes for a more complete understanding of the resistance practices of the rural population during the Franco dictatorship by Ana Cabana Iglesia

“…The dictatorship established by General Franco in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939) sought to de-mobilize the entire population and, particularly, to achieve the full passivity of the rural population. …”
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Schöner wohnen und besser leben by Christian Reiss

“…With his book Der Verlust der Mitte, he reached a broad audience beyond academia in post-war Germany. He was also active in the conservation of the historic center of Salzburg and argued for the intrinsic relation of this historic ensemble with the surrounding landscape. …”
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Art and the ‘Second Darkness’ by Catherine Lanone

“…Today Bloomsbury is perceived in contradictory, controversial ways; yet its legacy discreetly survived the war, under new guises such as the B.B.C. Third programme.…”
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBLIC EXPENDITURES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A PANEL VAR APPROACH by Gökhan Karhan

“…Therelationship between public expenditures and economic growth has accelerated,especially after the First World War. In this study, it was investigated usingdata from 1989-2017 for BRICS countries and Turkey for the causality relationbetween public expenditures and economic growth. …”
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Reduce VAT on Food to Zero by Lukas Scholle

“…Abstract The economic consequences of the war in Ukraine are taking a toll on goods prices in Germany and elsewhere. …”
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Londres, les années 1620 by Michael Palmer

“…The author is particularly interested in news from abroad and the sources of such news, not least because the appearance of corantos in London coincided with the start of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648).…”
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The Storia della Biblioteca Berio of Luigi Marchini: reflections about the recent printed edition by Francesca Nepori, Graziano Ruffini, Valentina Sonzini

“…The unpublished work offers a detailed narrative from the birth of the Berio collection in the eighteenth century to the Second World War, with an appendix edited by Laura Malfatto to complete the contemporary history of the institution. …”
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Writing the Greek Revolution: Harry Mark Petrakis’s The Hour of the Bell by David Roessel

“…This paper uses the journal that Petrakis kept while writing The Hour of the Bell to examine his thoughts and motives in the composition of the book, with close attention to Petrakis’s reading of the American philhellene Samuel Gridley Howe’s contemporary history of the war. The ways Petrakis uses Howe, and the ways he does not, offer insight into Petrakis’s own goals and conflicts in writing his version of the Greek Revolution for an American public.…”
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