Sefton Delmer. Corsaire des ondes de sa Majesté by Nicolas Mettelet

“…This document deals with the subversive operations carried out by the British during the Second World War, using Black Radio as a means of propaganda in order to undermine the enemy’s war effort. …”
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Dante : un guide spirituel pour l’Europe moderne. Quelques remarques sur les lectures dantesques d’Ernst Troeltsch à l’occasion du jubilé allemand de la mort du poète en 1921... by Bérénice Palaric

“…The 1921 sexcentenary commemoration of Dante’s death took place in Germany in the aftermath of World War I. Looking at the interpretations of the poet by theologian and philosopher Ernst Troeltsch, one of the major intellectuals of the young Weimar Republic, this article aims to examine how Dante is used as a guide to meet the challenges of the reconciliation of Europe, of the place of religion in modernity, and of the democratization of culture. …”
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La construction des cités administratives en France durant les « Trente Glorieuses » à travers les sources des Archives nationales by Pascal Riviale

“…After the Second World War, in a context of massive reconstruction, tremendous development of urbanisation and the evolution of public services, the building of administrative centres occupied a major place in the French architectural and town-planning landscape of this period of economic prosperity. …”
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Lust, tranquillity and sensuality in French spa towns in the heyday of balneotherapy (the belle époque and the roaring twenties) by Marie-Eve Férérol

“…One was the expansion in bourgeois morality, and the other was the uncertain future at the turn of the 20th century (the advancing tide of modernity, presages of the 1st World War, etc.). Spa towns thus became ‘safety valves’ (Authier, 1997), another world, an escape from everyday life, where all sorts of transgressions were possible. …”
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Emil Utitz et la « science générale de l’art » by Lara Bonneau

“…This article is a contribution to the genealogy of the Science of Art, a discipline that emerged in the German speaking countries at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries at the crossing of aesthetics, art philosophy and art history and to which the Second World War brought an end. It attempts to revive a relatively unknown figure: the German-speaking Czech philosopher Emil Utitz (1883-1956), who in the 1920s and 1930s tried to give a philosophical grounding to this new science. …”
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The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…By analyzing a number of recordings of Beggar’s Holiday’s opening song, “In Between,” I demonstrate that Ellington and Latouche simultaneously invoked and undermined this aesthetic dichotomy to make an intervention into post-World War II left-wing political debates.…”
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Exposer la science dans l’après-guerre. Hommage à Léonard de Vinci et Rembrandt, étude photographique et radiographique au laboratoire du musée du Louvre by Camille Bourdiel

“…Founded in 1931 under the supervision of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre, then closed on the eve of the Second World War, the department was reopened in 1946. It was headed by Madeleine Hours, a former volunteer, who was determined to ensure its revival. …”
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Réflexions sur Der Schwierige d’Hugo von Hofmannsthal by Pauline Belvèze

“…They are the result of a problematic relationship with time, whose ethical implications only become visible through the experience of the First World War. The character’s unwillingness to get married even after the war reveals that he has become aware of his past mistakes. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky by Gabriele

“… In the process of the emancipation of film music that took place in the first decades after World War II, the filmography of Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky offers multiple points of interest. …”
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La vulgarisation de la notion d’adolescence dans l’Europe de l’après-Seconde Guerre mondiale : échanges et circulations du savoir « psy » entre l’espace francophone européen et l’I... by Laura Di Spurio

“…This paper discusses the emergence of the notion of adolescence throughout post-Second World War Europe. Jointly examining the French and Italian bodies of knowledge in this field from 1945 up to 1958, this comparative analysis allows for one to have a sense of the evolutionary process that lead to psychology becoming the expert discipline in the field of adolescence. …”
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Economic Cycle Policy — Post COVID-19 by Überblick

“…Abstract The coronavirus crisis has plunged the German economy into the deepest recession since the Second World War. Due to its global spread, supply chains have been disrupted and international trade has been severely impaired, which has hit the export-dependent German economy particularly hard. …”
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When Ethnic Identity is a Private Matter by Kjell Olsen

“…This article analyses the change of articulation of ethnic boundaries on the coastline and the fjord areas in Finnmark, Northern Norway in the post-World War II period. From being a ‘social stigma’ in the 1950s a Sámi identity is today something that can be expressed in certain cultural constructed spaces. …”
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Devletlerarası İlişkilerde Kurumsallaşma Örneği Olarak Şanghay İşbirliği Örgütü by Tamer KAŞIKCI

“…After the Second World War, in order not to experience the great wars that shook the fundamental basement of international relations and disrupted the political, economic and cultural relations between states and to ensure the continuity of these relations, multilateral institutional arrangements were established. …”
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Hors du mariage, point de salut ? Regards de réformateurs et de féministes (Allemagne, fin xixe – début xxe siècles) by Anne-Laure Briatte-Peters

“…The final section analyses the public debate on matrimony and alternative conceptions of love and sexuality, which contributed to an emerging social acceptance of women without husbands on the eve of the First World War.…”
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Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity by Onur Kartal

“…Within this context, I analyse 28 Weeks Later and The World War Z and The Girl with All the Gifts to put forth the idea that what enables emancipation of humanity is contagion and alterity. …”
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Le film de fiction comme lieu de mémoire historicisé. Du signe-monument à la trace-interstice Pour l’exemple (Joseph Losey, 1964) by Sylvain Louet

“…King and Country (Losey, 1964) recounts how a man’s ambivalent attitude was reduced to that of a courageous combatant who had been convicted of desertion in the First World War. Thus law and justice were used by the British government in order to eradicate desertion from national history. …”
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Le chemin de fer entre XIXe et XXe siècle : manifestations de l’inquiétude se penchant vers la folie pendant le voyage en train et à la gare by Tommaso Meldolesi

“…Between XIXth and XXth century railways becomes the place of incertitude, violence, murder and lower perspective for the future, until the beginning of the First World War.…”
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Young Christians in Norway, national socialism, and the German occupation of 1940-1945 by F. Hale

“… The German occupation of Norway during the Second World War caused unprecedented problems for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway and other Christian denominations. …”
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On Some Issues of Post-War World Order (speech at the annual meeting of the russian historical society on september 9, 2015) by A. V. Torkunov

“…Abstract: 70th anniversary of our victory in the Great Patriotic War and large-scale national and international events marking the end of the Second World War caused an unprecedented wave of interest in the history of the war and the problems of post-war world order. …”
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Mémoires métisses de la guerre dans A Gesture Life de Chang-rae Lee by Michaël Taugis

“…Franklin Hata, the main character of A Gesture Life is a Japanese immigrant of Korean descent who seems to lead a peaceful life in a small American city but he is in fact haunted by his past as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II, by the crimes and atrocities perpetrated by soldiers and officers. …”
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