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Re-enacting the American Frontier in Contemporary Popular Culture: The Western Fantasy of “Red Dead Redemption II”

Iperstoria, 2021
Grounded in the theoretical framework of adaptation theory (Hutcheon 2006; Flanagan 2017), the present paper discusses the transmedia recreation of the myth of the Western frontier in American contemporary culture. The case study of the blockbuster video
Francesca Razzi
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Les crises aux Etats-Unis depuis 1837 : facteurs de renouveau et de redéploiement

IdeAs, 2013
Crises in the US since the first half of the nineteenth century have often been more brutal than elsewhere, but have also been pregnant with more tangible changes and irrational promises. These would-be apocalypses, although unwittingly fertile, are also
Jean Luc Tendil
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Lost Wooden Architecture of the Pacific Russia

Проект Байкал, 2020
The abundance and relative cheapness of the material provided ample possibilities for adaptation and experimentation with stylistics by volume-spatial forms of wooden buildings in Siberia and the Far East.
Alina Ivanova
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Frontier and Communication in the Relations of Russia, Crimean Khanate, and Ottoman Empire. Book Review: Sen’ D. Russian-Crimean-Ottoman Borderland: Areas, Phenomena, People (end of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries): Selected Works

Золотоордынское обозрение, 2021
The article contains a review of the new book by Dmitry V. Sen’, a famous historian specialized on history of Cossacks and Russian-Crimean relations.
Pochekaev R.Yu.
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Railroad Workers, Civilization and Communism: the Young Men’s Christian Association on the Interwar Polish Frontier

European Journal of American Studies, 2019
This article seeks to present and analyze one of the aspects of the work of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA or Y) in interwar Poland: the initiatives for railroad workers from eastern frontier towns and cities.
Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska
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Skinner Sweet, American Vampire

European Journal of American Studies, 2015
In their series American Vampire, Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque create a new breed of vampire, one specific to America. In the full-length collections of their current series, Snyder and Albuquerque explore issues of American identity through the ...
James J. Donahue
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Caucasian border as a hidden space in the realities of Russia of the XIX century

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2022
The Caucasus for the Russian Empire in the 19th century remained a special place, a place of its laborious military and civilizational efforts aimed at establishing universal orders of regular statehood there. Change was brought about slowly. For various
S. S. Lazaryan, O. B. Maslova
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Oyapock coopération santé : une collaboration transfrontalière pour une meilleure prise en charge du VIH dans le bassin de l’Oyapock

Confins, 2021
This article presents an example of health cooperation between France and Brazil through a project called « Oyapock Coopération Santé » meaning health cooperation along the Oyapock river.
Collectif
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Ligne à grande vitesse Sud-Europe-Atlantique et archéologie

Archéopages, 2016
As part of the operations prior to the construction of the South-Europe-Atlantic high-speed line, archaeological diagnostics were carried out on more than 3,000 ha between September 2009 and June 2013, generating about fifty excavation prescriptions.
Isabelle Kerouanton
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Le patrimoine monumental du comté de Nice entre France et Piémont, d’une histoire nationale à l’autre 1830-1930

In Situ, 2019
France witnessed its last significant territorial acquisitions during the second half of the nineteenth century, when, in 1860, at the end of the Austro-French Piedmontese War, Napoleon III’s Empire annexed Savoy and the County of Nice.
Alain Bottaro
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