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The political life of a chair: the Chaise Sandows in interwar France
, 2022 Isenstadt, Sandy“The Political Life of a Chair: The Chaise Sandows in Interwar France” investigates the history of a chair made of steel and rubber to reveal a nuanced relationship between the steel industry and the decorative arts in interwar France ...
Thamm, Kiersten Elaine
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Between the Visible and the Invisible: Art Collecting in the Interwar City of Timişoara, Romania [PDF]
Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art : Série Beaux-Arts, 2016 The current study deals with art collectors in Timişoara during the interwar period, documenting the Museum of Banat’s acquisitions policy between the 1950s and the 1960s, during the period of dissolution of the collections assembled between the two ...
Marius Cornea
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, 2022 How people traveled, and how people wrote about travel, changed in the interwar years. Novel technologies eased travel conditions, breeding new iterations of the colonizing gaze.
Wittman, Emily O.
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Rearmament to the rescue? New estimates of the impact of ‘Keynesian’ policies in 1930s’ Britain [PDF]
, 2012 We report estimates of the fiscal multiplier for interwar Britain based on quarterly data, time-series econometrics, and ‘defense news’. We find that the government expenditure multiplier was in the range 0.3 to 0.8, much lower than previous estimates ...
Crafts, N. F. R. +3 more
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Geopolitics, City Life, and Contested Places in Eyvind Johnson’s European Journalism, 1921–1925
Edda, 2023 The article contributes to the understanding of thematic and stylistic patterns displayed in, and publication practices associated with, foreign-reportage journalism focused on European geopolitics, economy, and urban life in the interwar period. This is
Bjarne Thorup Thomsen
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From Horrors Past to Horrors Future: Pacifist War Art (1919–1939)
Arts, 2020 In this paper, I argue that interwar pacifists working in France presented an evolving narrative of what the First World War represented in order to maintain support for their movement and a continued peace in Europe.
Lauren Jannette
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Radical Americas, 2020 This article examines the involvement of the black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in black political violence in the early-interwar period in the United States.
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.Since late 2021, serious allegations have been made against physicist Erwin Schrödinger, ranging from pedophilia to serial sexual abuse. These accusations have significantly tarnished the Nobel Prize winner's public reputation. The ongoing debate has repeatedly raised the question of whether, and to what extent, these grave allegations are justified ...
Magdalena Gronau, Martin Gronau
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Geopolitics and global strategy: Making money under anarchy
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Multinational firms conduct cross‐border trade and investment in a world of anarchy, where nation‐states must secure their survival in the absence of a world government. We develop a geopolitical‐economic order (GEO) framework to argue that the extent of geopolitical competition incentivizes states to create one of two types ...
Daniel J. Blake +2 more
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Escape of poetry from the village to the city in interwar Lithuania
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 The article examines the thematic transformation of interwar Lithuanian poetry from the countryside to the city in 1918-1940. Based on images and lyrical experiences in interwar Lithuanian poetry, it reviews the changing features of the urban poetry of ...
Emilija Kilinskaitė
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