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The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
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Juristes internationalistes, juristes mixtes, Euro-Lawyers : l’apport de l’expérience semi-coloniale à l’émergence d’un droit supranational

Clio@Themis, 2022
This paper explores the partly colonial origins of European integration law. It first notes that internationally composed and treaty-based courts with jurisdiction over individual treaty-based rights existed well before the end of WWII, notably in semi ...
Michel Erpelding
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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A contribution to the priesthood calvary of the Raška-Prizren Diocese [PDF]

Baština, 2019
In this paper, based on the archive material of the Raška-Prizren Diocese, testimonies on the suffering of priesthood in Kosovo and Metohija during WWII from 1941 to 1945 are presented. During WWII one third of the priesthood of Raška-Prizren Diocese was
Stojković Boban D.
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Cinematic Memory and The Americanization of The Holocaust

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2012
Steven Soderbergh’s The Good German (2006), while grounding itself in WWII, casts a wide net as it attempts to examine the role of memory, the difficulty of assigning guilt, determining justice, defining the past, and writing history.
Nelson Barbara A.
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Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

Canadian Food Studies, 2014
When most of us think of Canadian history, particularly Canada’s involvement in the Second World War, it is unlikely that food is what first comes to mind. However, Ian Mosby’s new—and first—book, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science
Jennifer Brady
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I Am Not A Prisoner of War : Agency, Adaptability, and Fulfillment of Expectations Among American Prisoners of War Held in Nazi Germany [PDF]

, 2020
In war memory, the typical prisoner of war narrative is one of either passive survival or heroic resistance. However, captured service members did not necessarily lose their agency when they lost their freedom.
Greenman, Jessica N.
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Review, Anke Hilbrenner, Christoph Meißner, Jörg Morré (eds.), Riss durch Europa. Die Folgen des Hitler-Stalin-Pakts. Perspektiven aus Ostmitteleuropa / Rift through Europe. The Consequences of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Perspectives from East-Central Europe. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2024, 296 pp. ISBN 978-3-8353-5781-5 ( [PDF]

Plural: History, Culture, Society
Review of the collective book - Anke Hilbrenner, Christoph Meißner, Jörg Morré (eds.), Riss durch Europa. Die Folgen des Hitler-Stalin-Pakts. Perspektiven aus Ostmitteleuropa / Rift through Europe. The Consequences of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Perspectives
Sergiu Musteață
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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