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Can Anonymous be the exception? Modernist anonymity and the challenges of literary exceptionalism

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2021
The article examines the relatively little-known “Anonymous” project launched in Paris by Michael Fraenkel and Walter Lowenfels in 1930 with a view to advancing our understanding of modernist “exceptionalism” as a heterogeneous and malleable cultural ...
Anne Reynes-Delobel
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Seals of the Khotyn County in the Interwar Period. Historical and Sphragistic Analysis

Codrul Cosminului, 2023
In the article, the authors have made a detailed sphragistic and historical analysis of the matrix seals that were found on the territories of the former Khotyn County (Northern Bessarabia).
Oleksandr Rusnak, Mykola Ilkiv, Vitalii Kalinichenko   +2 more
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The economic impact of seismic retrofit on heritage reinforced concrete buildings [PDF]

Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2014
Groups of actors (architects, engineers, inhabitants, investors) put different priorities in interventions on heritage buildings. Seismic retrofit can be done at different levels, from avoiding collapse up to assuring immediate postearthquake ...
Maria Boştenaru Dan
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Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)

Criminocorpus, 2023
Between 1914 and 1940, the fight against espionage is undergoing major changes, firstly due to a changing context and the emergence of new threats. While the police, military and political aspects of this fight have been the subject of several works ...
Nicolas Picard
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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
wiley   +1 more source

Sven-Olof Olsson (ed.), Managing Crises and De-globalization. Nordic foreign trade and exchange 1919-39 (New York: Routledge, 2014 pbk.)

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2015
A review of the book: Sven-Olof Olsson (ed.), Managing Crises and De-globalization. Nordic foreign trade and exchange 191-39 (New York: Routledge, 2014 pbk. [original hardcover edition: 2010])
Giorgio Baruchello
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source

Pensionul din Basarabia: Şcoala Eparhială de Fete din Chișinăul interbelic [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
The present study presents the activity of an elite educational institution in Bessarabia between the two world wars. The Diocesan School for Girls in the second city of unified Romania harmoniously combined theoretical, practical and religious ...
Ion Valer XENOFONTOV
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
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