L’anxiété technocratique en France : les romans du Fleuve Noir « Anticipation », 1951-1960 by Bradford Lyau

“…The novels original to Fleuve Noir’s "Collection Anticipation" for the years 1951-60 - and there were hundreds of them - reflect a diversity of attitudes towards this unprecedented technocratic revolution. …”
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Residential Landscapes Sponsored by Companhia União Fabril (CUF) in Barreiro (1945-1972). Promotion of Multi-Family Working-Class Housing in Post-WWII Portugal by Ana Vaz Milheiro, João Cardim

“…It then describes the operations that were carried out after the publication of the aforementioned law, between 1958 and 1967, and its repercussions up until the eve of the 1974 April Revolution. This law is essentially seen as positive, and had significant results in fighting the housing shortage issues of the time. …”
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L’enfermement, vu de l’intérieur (XXe siècle) by Claire Dumas

“…As a consequence of this tragedy, the institution in Cadillac (Gironde) was definitely closed down in 1951.Christiane, a 20 year old nurse who started her professional life in the Bon Pasteur in Loos (Nord) in 1948, tells about the feeling alienation that affected her, as is common amongst professionals who work in exclusively feminine environment where very troubled girls are secluded and completely isolated from their families.Single motherhood was punished with the same type of repressive treatment, as Evelyne describes it when she lived in a secular maternal home in Clermont Ferrand (Puy de Dôme) in 1967.It is not until the nineteen seventies that a sketchy sexual education for girls started, simultaneously with the legalisation of contraception that came with the revolution in morals.All these stories, but Marguerite’s, were collected by Claire Dumas, caseworker for children and author with the historian Françoise Tétard, of the book: Filles de Justice, du Bon Pasteur à l’Education surveillée, 19e-20e siècle, published in 2009, Beauchesne – ENPJJ editors.…”
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Fernand Braudel e Vidal de La Blache : Geohistória e História da Geografia by Larissa Alves de Lira

“…“Think about the geographical history which we have tried to promote and have called geohistory” (Braudel, 1951). According to the quotation dated of 1951, the first edition of “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean Word in the Age of Philip II” is a book which is considered a landmark in Fernand Braudel´s geographical history. …”
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