The development of the printing industry in Lithuania in 1918-1940 by Audronė Glosienė

“…It covers the development of the printing industry after the First World War and the activities of the main printing houses during this twenty-year period. …”
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THE LIMITS OF EUROPEANINTEGRATION: THE QUESTION OF EUROPEAN IDENTİTY by Selcen Öner

“…Ayrıca Avrupa kimliği inşa süreciyle ulusal kimliklerin inşa süreci arasındaki benzerlikler ve farklılıklara değinilerek ; Avrupa kimliği, ulusal kimlik ve bölgesel kimliklerin AB içindeki pozisyonu İncelenmektedir.After bad memories of the 2nd World War, firstly common economic communities were tried to be established within Europe like the European Coal and Steel Community(ECSC) or EURATOM.…”
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L’aroumain, dialecte du roumain ou langue à part ? by Nicolas Trifon

“…The idea that Aromanian was a dialect of Romanian was long taken for granted, but it was not until after the Second World War that an attempt was made to argue it scientifically. …”
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Pardubičtí Židé a jejich náboženská obec do roku 1918 by Jitka Vojtková, Luboš Kokeš

“… This study describes the Jewish settlement of Pardubice from the first mentions of their residence in primary sources in the early 16th century to the period of the First World War. The main emphasis was put on the establishing and development of the Jewish religious community in the first half of the 19th century, its subsequent institutional consolidation and the resulting influence of the growing Jewish population on the economic, social and cultural emancipation of the town of Pardubice at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. …”
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Langues et discours en situation de guerre : une approche sociolinguistique et pragmatique by Salih Akin

“…Kurdish is an Indo-European language spoken by a population distributed in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey and affected by a conflictual situation from the First World War to the present day. The consequences of the war are manifested on the evolution of the language on several levels: a fragmentation in its linguistic structures as well as in its writing systems, a geographical and political dispersion of its speakers and a decline of its intergenerational transmission. …”
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Open Water Jumping: Clearing Obstacles in the Negotiation of French Rights to The Black Stallion by Cécile Cottenet

“…The story of the introduction of the series in France in the aftermath of World War II, and its inclusion in this now-classic library of children’s texts, is largely unknown. …”
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Existențialismul românesc by Paul Cernat

“…Romanian Existentialism is rigorously described from its very beginnings with the Criterion group in the 20s: there are few Existentialisms identified in the Romanian culture and a special attention is given to the main tendencies and to the characteristics of the literary works associated with Existentialism in the 30s and 40s (when we had the so-called “war generation”). After the Second World War, when Existentialism became a well-known and significant philosophical and cultural movement in the world, we may also talk about Existentialism as present in the creation of few Romanian writers reviewed in this article.…”
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Pointes, hachoirs et marteaux by Eva Belgherbi

“…Between the opening of the École des beaux-arts to women in the late 19th century and the attack by suffragette Mary Richardson at the dawn of World War I against Velázquez’s The Toilet of Venus, commonly known in English as the Rokeby Venus, there was an abundance of speeches on the subject of the violence of women. …”
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Juliette Dissel (1902-1962) : la passion du théâtre occitan by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Influenced by Léon Chancerel theatrical projects, she settled down in Toulouse just before the second world war. Supported by instigators of the Révolution nationale régionaliste to give work to her actors, she was then abandoned by almost everybody until she died in Pessac (Gironde) in 1962.…”
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Tsurumi Shunsuke et les frontières du pragmatisme, 1945-1960 by Michael Lucken

“…Less well known, however, is his philosophical work in the early part of his career, between the end of the Second World War and the renewal of the Japan-US Security Treaty. …”
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Les espaces du mouvement végétarien en France (1880-1914) by Alexandra Hondermarck

“…These different scales influence the discourse, practices, and the framing of the vegetarian cause, during a period when it was still being constructed, from the 1880s to the eve of World War I.…”
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The Crisis of Human Rights. On the Importance and Timeliness of their Catholic Critique by Michał Gierycz

“… Human rights, as they developed after the Second World War, were intended to protect the objective goods necessary for the development of the human person. …”
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The Societal Relevance of the “Rheinischer Merkur” by Regina M. Frey

“…The Rheinischer Merkur, founded in 1946 shortly after the end of the Second World War and shut down by the German Bishops’ Conference in 2010, was a newspaper of this kind. …”
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Le canard était toujours vivant ! De Troppmann à Weidmann, la fin des complaintes criminelles, 1870-1939 by Jean-François “Maxou” Heintzen

“…Against the commonly accepted idea according to which criminal laments would have disappeared from France at the end of the 19th century, and replaced by the “short news items” column in popular dailies, the present article follows their transformation until the eve of World War II. With a corpus of mainly provincial broadsheets we examine the evolution of the lament paper copy, of its underlying melody, of its style and content, and also of its publishing and trading. …”
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De la coopération intellectuelle à la diplomatie culturelle : le parcours du Brésil dans l’entre-deux-guerres by Juliette Dumont

“…This process takes roots in intellectual cooperation practices which develop in Latin America at the end of the 19th century, and thanks to protagonists and networks that emerge in the days following the First World War, in an international surrounding, through the National Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, depending on the SdN, and Pan-American. …”
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Le luxembourgeois, enfant naturel de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Nicolas Lefrançois

“…From simple oral and regional variety of the High German, it acquired the status of language to support an identity and political demand of the population during the Second World War: to dissociate itself from Nazi Germany and to affirm its cultural peculiarity. …”
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Les intellectuels pacifistes allemands et la « suggestion de la guerre » by Philippe Alexandre

“…This paper will therefore examine the situation prevailing in Germany prior to the First World War. Among the intellectuals who at that time supported the pacifist movement, publicists and jurists played a leading role alongside pastors and pedagogues. …”
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Гибридизация русского старообрядческого говора в Польше by Stefan Grzybowski

“…The dialect of Old-Believers, who have lived in Poland on North-Eastern borderlands since the end of 18th century, has retained its Russian, Pskovian character for a long time. After World War II it became an island dialect, and in the last 30–40 years, due to a number of reasons, it started to change under growing Polish influence. …”
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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. During the Second World War the Viennese Jewish playwright Fritz Hochwälder, then living in exile in Switzerland, followed in this tradition when he wrote his tragedy, Das heilige Experiment. …”
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L’Armure de François Ier : histoires d’un présent diplomatique by Juliette Allix

“…This Doppelküriss became a collector’s item, the incarnation of a royal figure, a European diplomatic issue, a trophy of war and was even considered an arm during the Second World War. The history of this armour sheds light on the way the life of an object can alter its nature and enrich one’s reading of it; it also examines the status accorded from the modern period to the present to the particular cultural heritage constituted by military objects.…”
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