The Artistic Commitment of Kenyon Cox: An American Neoclassical Artist by Marc S. SMITH

“…His ideas mirrored both the angst of deep social transformations brought on by the second industrial revolution, and the martial enthusiasm which led to the war with Spain.…”
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Territories of Equivalence by Clare Louise Lyster

“…Mechanisation transformed space, in particular the household into an efficient machine, with industrial components and standardised dimensions (from the bathtub to the streamlined kitchen), while military manufacturing efficiencies and emerging technologies allowed consumer goods (from TV sets to Tupperware) to fill the middle class suburban home in the post-war era. This essay contemplates how logisticalisation, the latest incarnation of capitalist production, is permeating the design and conception of contemporary space through an exploration of the gadgets and objects that are increasingly used by the public as portals to the larger world of logistical flow. …”
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The Dark Knight’s Dystopian Vision: Batman, Risk, and American National Identity by Jeanne Cortiel, Laura Oehme

“…It is our contention here that Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns begins a deliberate engagement with how the sense of global risk shapes social cohesion at the height of the cold war, and The Dark Knight Strikes Again brings this engagement to the twenty-first century. …”
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ENHANCING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF ENTERPRISES IN THE FACE OF CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND TRENDS WITH THE USE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY by Marta Wiśniewska, Jakub Grabowski

“…The subject of the theoretical considerations was the issues related to the competitiveness of enterprises in the face of market changes and contemporary trends, primarily events associated with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The main part of the publication was devoted to the determinants of the activity of enterprises on the Polish market concerning the implementation of blockchain technology. …”
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EMMANUEL DE MARTONNE ET LA NAISSANCE DE LA GRANDE ROUMANIE by GAVIN BOWD

“…It is before the Great War, on the frontier between Hungary and Romania, that Emmanuel de Martonne begins his work as a geographer. …”
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Zwischen dem Plan und seiner Realisierung. Zu den Hodonymen in der Stadt Białystok im Zweiten Weltkrieg unter deutscher Besatzung by Andrzej S. Feret

“…Also in the cities of Poland, in the Second World War many streets and squares were renamed. The aim of this paper is to examine and describe the change of urban names in Białystok in the years 1939-1944, when Poland was under German occupation. …”
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Peace journalism in South Africa by Nathalie Hyde-Clarke

“…There is no doubt that commercial media coverage often relies on sensational and inflammatory discourse to attract consumers (audience), and that, even during times of peace, political communication frequently incorporates conflict or war terminology. Given the potential for individual and intergroup violence (actual or latent) due to the diverse nature of the population and South Africa’s historical legacies, there is a need to address peace-communication concerns on a continuous basis. …”
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Drifting as Consolation in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost by Judith MISRAHI-BARAK

“…Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost deals with the exhumation and identification of bones in the context of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Sent by a human rights group to investigate mass burials, Sri Lankan-born and North American-educated Anil Tissera returns to her native island as a forensic anthropologist after 15 years away. …”
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Money, the market, and the military origins of the American System by Nicholas Miller Trebat

“…We also reflect on the reasons for the United States War Department’s interest in this technology after 1800.…”
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Fatigue failure of welded connections at orthotropic bridges by Z.H. Qian, D. Abruzzese

“…Orthotropic decks were applied to the long span bridges after World War II due to several advantages, such as light weight, high strength, few deck joints, durability, rapid construction, life-cycle economy. …”
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Militarised Safety: Politics of Exclusion by Ayesha Sarfraz, Arsalan Rafique

“…Developing and less politically stable countries like Pakistan, on the other hand, are losing urban space through attacks from the perpetrators and yet more so from the state as the literal subtraction of the public realm gets framed as security measures Whereas international law states that during times of war, civilian rights can be legally suspended - in Pakistan that suspension has shifted into a state of temporariness without prescribed limits. …”
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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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Critique and Review of Post-American World by Hossein Poorahmade Meibode, Amir Abbasi Khoshkar

“…America at the post- cold war period has been relative decline in front of other strategic rivals and Zakaria s solutions for improve American relative conditions at post–American world are tends American to multilateralism and accepts the structural constrain that are face to that.…”
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A Critical Book Review of Civil Society and Democracy in the Middle East by SeyedSaeid ZahedZahedani

“…This book follows a political development in the Middle East. After World War II, at the time of the U.S. investments in Europe and the third world countries, development became a subject of study in social sciences.  …”
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So Close and Yet so Foreign: Trans-Border relations in Paul S. Flores’ Along the Border Lies (2001) by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger

“…In Flores’ novel, the San Diego-Tijuana area is rendered as a war and illegal trade zone that has a psychological impact upon its inhabitants and determines the power imbalances between people of Mexican and Mexican American origin who interact across borders. …”
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“The compass of possibilities”: Re-Mapping the Suburbs of Los Angeles in the Writings of D.J. Waldie by Neil Campbell

“…In the fashionable parlance of Mike Davis’ City of Quartz, Los Angeles has become defined by its “suburban badlands”; however, Waldie‘s work takes a different view in which his suburban home in LA is the focus for a more complex, multi-faceted approach to post-war suburbia. Typified by his re-assessment of the suburban grid as a “compass of possibilities,” his writings encourage a more nuanced and layered view of the communities and cultures fostered in such places. …”
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Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon by Florence March

“…By doing so, he re-engaged with the festival’s ethos, which promoted democratic theatre as a source of social cohesion in the aftermath of the Second World War. As in 1947, Shakespeare plays a major role in implementing the festival’s sociopolitical and artistic project with Le Pontet penitentiary. …”
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Art, Performance, and Outsourcing in Corporate Art Commissioning: An American Scenario by Charlotte Gould

“…And since performance management is largely the result of the export of American business models to Western Europe since World War II, it makes sense to look for the roots of this phenomenon on that side of the Atlantic.…”
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Experts on the defensive: The Tsiganologue versus Romani activism (1959-1973) by Begoña Barrera López

“… This article discusses the figure of the Tsiganalogue, the expert on the “Tsigane question,” in post-World War II France. Specifically, it analyses the role played by one of these experts in the police persecution of Roma ethnic activism during the 1960s and early 1970s. …”
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Décrire la ville, écrire le patrimoine by Jean-Claude David

“…On the other hand, the populations of the historical and unincorporated neighbourhoods suffering in the violence of the civil war are precisely those heirs of traditional society for whom the memory of lifestyles and routine practices form a basis for heritage and confirm the written narratives of the ancient cities?…”
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