Imigração no Brasil e na Alemanha: contextos, conceitos, convergências by Sérgio Costa

“…The article compares discourses and policies directed to immigrants in Brazil during the "nationalization campaign" at the time of the Second World War with efforts to "integrate" immigrants in contemporary Germany. …”
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Une Madeleine tropicale : la première traduction brésilienne de À la recherche du temps perdu by Étienne Sauthier

“…The time of the distribution, reception and translation of Proust’s work in Brazil coincides with the birth of the Brazilian publishing industry. After the First World War and as an extension of the 1920 Modernist movement, many publishing houses financed by Brazilian capital emerged. …”
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La communication internationale : état des lieux et perspectives de recherche pour le XXIe siècle by Christian Agbobli

“…From the importance of communication for development (a tradition that grew after the end of World War II), the field is now broken up into various objects (media coverage, information technology and communication, cultural diversity, etc.) and different geographical areas. …”
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The Life and Death of de-Baathification by Hazem Saghieh

“…De-Baathification policies begun in 2003 and abandoned in 2004, were justified essentially in terms of the German and Japanese experiences following World War II. These policies however, emerged from the beginning as forms of revenge, not only against the Ba’ath as a party and system, but also against the "Sunni Triangle" and Arab nationalism. …”
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Racial Fault-lines in “Baseball’s Great Experiment:” Black Perceptions, White Reactions by Henry D. Fetter

“…By so doing, the paper will illuminate the fault-lines that characterized race relations within both the sport of baseball and the larger society as each was confronted with new challenges to long established policies and practices in the years after the Second World War.…”
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Le Havre: de cidade reconstruída a patrimônio moderno by Jéssica Gomes da Silva, Ana Elisabete de Almeida Medeiros

“…The French city of Le Havre, today a World Heritage Site recognized by Unesco in 2005, had its urban center practically rebuilt after the bombings of World War II. The long process that separates these two dates, from 1944, the year of destruction, until 2005, the date of recognition, was marked by countless actions, discussions and agents that involved its patrimonialization. …”
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Italy and the history of preventive conservation by Simon Lambert

“…After a brief look at the history of preventive conservation from Antiquity to the Second World War, two seldom-discussed Italian initiatives are presented: The Franceschini Commission (1964) and the Pilot plan for the programmed conservation of cultural heritage in Umbria (1976).…”
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La opción corporativista en Argentina y Chile: agrupaciones políticas y círculos intelectuales (1930-1970) by Gabriela Gomes

“…This paper intends to review the nationalist, fascist and catholic groups in favor of the corporatist doctrine in its state and anti-state version in Argentina and Chile between 1930 and 1970. At the end of World War II corporatism was discredited, however did not disappear from the political scene, but it adapted to different contexts and lasted for a long time. …”
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Primordiality of Salvatore Scarpitta by Antonella Chiazza

“…The article analyzes the artistic research by Salvatore Scarpitta, one of the major protagonists of the international art scene after the Second World War, in its different phases: expressionist, abstract-figurative and informal. …”
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Lucio Fontana and the Architecture by Antonella Chiazza

“…This article explores the Spatialism in architectural terms, which is at the base of Lucio Fontana’s work after the Second World War. A fundamental and lesser-known aspect of the artist’s work, developed since 1949, is the creation of ‘Ambienti Spaziali’, really and truly architectural spaces that test the perception and often even the sense of balance of visitors. …”
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The War in Ukraine and Migration to Poland: Outlook and Challenges by Maciej Duszczyk, Paweł Kaczmarczyk

“…Abstract The war initiated by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022 has resulted in the largest refugee migration in Europe since World War II, estimated by UNHCR (2022) at 6.3 million persons. …”
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Deconstruction of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” by Nataliya Krynytska

“…Despite the satire and absurdity of the world in Slaughterhouse-Five, it contains the features of the jeremiad: “an Elect” is Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut’s alter ego, “an exodus” is his service in the US Army during World War II, “an errand into the wilderness” is Billy’s move to Europe and participation in the Battle of the Bulge, then his capture, and the punishment of sinners – the Dresden tragedy. …”
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Lest we remember? Recollection of the Boer War and Great War in Ireland by Ciarán WALLACE

“…After a generation of forgetting, Irish history has recalled the First World War and the participation of thousands of Irishmen in the service of the British Army. …”
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The emergence of an independent Polish state and the problem of national minorities by G. G. Dedurin

“…The main approaches to the regulation of the status of national minorities in the Polish state restored after the First World War were investigated. They were reflected in the relevant provisions of the first Constitution of independent Poland (March 1921), which was a kind of compromise between the views of the Polish right-wing led by Roman Dmowski, who advocated the absolute dominance of ethnic Poles' interests, and the leaders of Polish socialist parties (T. …”
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Skrifbeskouing en oorredingsretoriek: perspektiewe op performatiewe prediking by Johan Cilliers

“…The critique that has been levelled against this understanding of Scripture and preaching, initiated through the mind-set of the Enlightenment (Kant), gaining momentum since the Second World War, and coming to full fruition in the so-called postmodernism, is briefly addressed. …”
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Joseph Loxton Rawbon, the "Master Restorer" by Cyndie Lack

“…A colourful character with bombastic flair, his numerous enterprises, however limited in their success, exemplify the boundless optimism of the Industrial Age and open a small window onto the history of Toronto's early cultural development through to the Second World War.  Remarkably, Rawbon believed that, like his artist's stretchers and other inventions, the restoration of paintings held a key to the making of a fortune.…”
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Le film de mobilisation centrasiatique by Valérie Pozner

“…This little set of motives was recycled in various genra (feature shorts, musicals, documentaries) which are analyzed here on the example of the production of the main Soviet studio during the World War II, that of Alma-Ata.…”
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V Americe za války „před válkou“. Působení plk. gšt. Oldřicha Španiela v USA v letech 1939–1941 by Tomáš Jiránek

“… During the Second World War, the Czechoslovak exile authorities were building military units which should have supported the efforts of the anti-fascist coalition. …”
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Témoigner, dénoncer, révulser : dessins de haine, XXe-XXIe siècles by Gilbert Millat

“…Although the hate cartoon tradition actually represents a minority of published cartoons, it has been especially remarkable since the First World War. In various confrontational contexts, great artists feature in this tradition, ranging from Edmund Sullivan (1869-1933) to one of the leading cartoonists in the present generation, Steve Bell. …”
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Le Havre : de ville reconstruite à patrimoine moderne by Jéssica Gomes da Silva, Ana Elisabete de Almeida Medeiros

“…The French city of Le Havre, today a World Heritage Site recognized by Unesco in 2005, had its urban center practically rebuilt after the bombings of World War II. The long process that separates these two dates, from 1944, the year of destruction, until 2005, the date of recognition, was marked by countless actions, discussions and agents that involved its patrimonialization. …”
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