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“…The unpublished work offers a detailed narrative from the birth of the Berio collection in the eighteenth century to the Second World War, with an appendix edited by Laura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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Venezia dei bassifondi: la città dei marginali, della classe operaia e del pittoresco popolare by Alessandro Casellato

“…It shows how concepts such as “tradition” and “local identity” have been contended and used by different political subjects (the Catholic Church and the Socialist Party in the first two decades of the 20th century, the nazional-fascismo between the two world wars, the Communist Party and again the Catholic Church after World War II).…”
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La protection de la jeunesse comme légitimation du contrôle des médias by Jean-Matthieu Méon

“…This paper proposes a comparative analysis of the systems created in France and in the United States after the Second World War in order to control the content of youth publications. …”
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L’Université américaine entre 1865 et 1920 : un monde à part ? by Anne Ollivier-Mellios

“…This paper concentrates on the development of American higher education between the end of the Civil War and the First World War. It tries to establish a link between the creation of universities and their subsequent development and the emergence of what Pierre Bourdieu calls a cultural field. …”
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Постреволюционная действительность глазами „маленького человека”. Мемуарная проза Вениамина Корсака... by Antoni Bortnowski

“…Veniamin Korsak is a writer who represents the Russian literature of the first wave of emigration and is known primarily through a series of five autobiographical no- vels presenting the story of a simple man who went into German captivity during World War I and then returned to Russia, which was overwhelmed by civil war. …”
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Unreal Cities: the Veterans’ Homecoming and the Fate of Postwar Noir by Benoît Tadié

“…Noir fiction was shaped, in the aftermath of World War II, by a generation of ex-servicemen who wrote, under the guise of crime stories, about the difficulty of returning to American cities and civilian life. …”
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Diplomacy by Russia, Diplomacy by Serbian. The First Soviet’s Representatives in Belgrad, and the First Yugoslav’s representatives in Moscow by A. Y. Timofeev

“…USSR and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia didn’t have any diplomatic relations till 1940 from the moment of their creation after the First World War. Belgrade has to change its anticommunist policy only after the fall of France and in 1940 the diplomatic relations were established. …”
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Limity důvěry. Bývalí vojáci Wehrmachtu ve službě u československého letectva v Británii za druhé světové války by Zdenko Maršálek

“… The paper explores the trust limitations of the Czechoslovak exile authorities during World War II towards those volunteers of the Czechoslovak exile military forces who had formerly served in the Wehrmacht. …”
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Femmes et activités physiques sous le régime de Vichy : politiques et enjeux médicaux by Fatia Terfous

“…This paper examines the political and medical ideas of women’s sport and physical education during the Second World War in France. The study uses national and private archives to show how, although women’s sport was not a priority either for politicians or doctors under the Vichy regime, they nonetheless raised the participation of French women in physical and sporting activities into a patriotic imperative. …”
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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 28 June 1914 by Meryem, Günaydın

“…The Sarajevo assassination, referred in the history texts as “spark” of the First World War or “like a clap of thunder to Europe”. In Serbia, the secret organization “Black Hand” engaged in activities for the unity of Serbs; together with Gavrilo Princip and Nedjelko Cabrinovic, Trifko Grabez, Muhamed Mehmedbasic, Vaso Cubriloviç , Cvijetko Popoviç had a mystical trip to the assassination plot. …”
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Mocarna duchem zmartwychwstańskim. Alicja Kotowska CR – zakonnica, nauczycielka, męczenniczka, błogosławiona by Joanna Pyszna

“…Account for her saintly life and the suffered death at the hand of the occupant, she was exalted to the glory of alters in 1999 among 108 Polish martyrs of World War II.     …”
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African American Womanhood: A Study of Women’s Life Writings (1861-1910s) by Élise Vallier

“…Covering the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and up to the beginning of World War I, this work examines the way these women expressed their self-identities.…”
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Las políticas de ayuda y de evacuación de los refugiados españoles en Francia durante la ocupación nazi by Ángel Herrerín López

“…The hard conditions imposed by French authorities to these refugees got worse with the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Spanish organizations such as the Servicio de Evacuación de Refugiados Españoles (SERE) and the Junta de Auxilio a los Republicanos Españoles (JARE) took care of them. …”
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Felix Mitterer et le Volksstück by Marc Lacheny

“…Mitterer’s relation to the Volksstück—sitting between tradition and innovation—must be considered in the more general context of the continuation and renewal of this genre in the German-speaking countries after the Second World War. The first part of this contribution examines Mitterer’s vision of the Volksstück; the second analyses the way in which the Tyrolean playwright appropriates this genre by strengthening social criticism. …”
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Le réseau des petites revues littéraires belges, modernistes et d’avant-garde, du début des années 1920 : construction d’un modèle et proposition de schématisation by Daphné de Marneffe

“…In this article, the Belgian modernist and avant-garde literary periodicals from the post-World War I period are presented as “a network”. This network shows some remarkable characteristics, namely openness, heterogeneity, apparent solidarity among the different periodicals and its evolution in time. …”
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L’étude préalable et la conservation - restauration des graffitis des internés au camp de Drancy by Mélanie Curdy

“…During the Second World War, the Jewish prisoners of the transit camp in Drancy inscribed messages on the walls of their prison. …”
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Une revenance dans l’écriture poétique : les disparus et Vittorio Sereni by Yannick Gouchan

“…His work is marked by an existential injury due to his imprisonment during the Second World War making it impossible for him to take part in History in that period. …”
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Katharine Hepburn s’en va-t-en guerre / Katharine Hepburn goes to war by Jules SANDEAU

“…This article focuses on a relatively unstudied period of Hepburn’s career, which corresponds to the US participation in the Second World War. It analyses the way in which the films Woman of the Year (1942), Keeper of the Flame (1943), Dragon Seed (1944) and Without Love (1945) shape the star’s image in order to adapt it to their specific socio-historical context. …”
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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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Oživlá historie Ratenic. Orální historie jako nástroj komunitního zkoumání lokální historie by Michal Louč

“…Then the article presents the project outcomes on the three selected topics – the historical changes of landscape and public space, the working life and finally the life during the Second World War. …”
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