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Published: 01 April 2012
... universalism Group of power relations international Second World War Waltz K N war causes of Ireland Luxembourg Netherlands the Portugal Spain Hägglöf Gunnar Hitler Adolf self interest of neutral states Cox M MacGinty R non alignment policy Väyrynen R Austria Cold War Dulles John Foster...
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Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 29 August 2023
...The book reconstructs the process by which the Italian memory of the Second World War was shaped. This memory was organised around two contrasting stereotypes: the ‘good Italian’ and the ‘bad German’. The image of the ruthless and cruel German soldier, capable of appalling crimes, was counterposed...
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Published: 18 June 2024
... the ways that civilian heroism was recognised in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to illustrate that, as the Second World War altered everyday life, the pre-existing concept of everyday heroism was modified to account for the extreme pressures, demands of war and loss of life that were...
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Published: 18 June 2024
... Kluane Buckingham Palace Houses of Parliament St Paul’s Cathedral Ministry of Information Barton ‘Buzz’ League of Coloured Peoples LCP Moody Dr Harold Roberts G A heroism home front war conflict civilians Second World War home front heroism everyday heroism During wartime, civilian...
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Published: 01 July 2016
... travel planning Sophie researcher atmosphere Bergelson Nadia Ettinger Yakov weather Adit editor editing music rushes Arieh music expert copyright Jerusalem International Film Festival luck Stalin Purge Mikhoels Second World War Yiddish theatre Secret trials One of the things that I had...
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Published: 01 April 2016
...This chapter concludes the main ideas highlighted in the book. It also briefly discusses urban development and other socio-physical issues outside the area and period in question. That is, it gives a glimpse and invites more in-depth study of the post-Second World War and independence eras...
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Published: 01 February 2010
...This chapter provides an outline of the historical development of service allowances and their administration in the period to 1918, their further development during the interwar period and the changes brought about by the advent of the Second World War. Britain was almost half a century late...
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Published: 30 September 2013
... d'Illac Agde camp Ménard General Vernet d'Ariège camp CTE Second World War refugees France Foreign Labour Companies Immigration Spanish republicans Throughout the 1930s officials and employers in south-western France had associated Spanish migrants primarily with their role in the economy...
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Published: 01 September 2019
... Taïeb Roger Kesteloot Lilyan Khalfa Jean Young Robert Second World War Vichy France negritude decolonization Algerian War culture pitfalls of nationalism humanism We are nothing on earth if we are not, first of all, slaves of a cause, the cause of the people, the cause of justice, the cause...
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Published: 30 September 2013
...This chapter evaluates the contribution of the Mothers’ Union, Catholic Women's League, National Council of Women, Women's Institutes and Townswomen's Guilds to the war effort. The Second World War provided these groups with the opportunity to demonstrate that women, just like men, could be ‘good...
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Published: 01 February 2015
...Chapter Two examines how the Second World War exacerbated existing family tensions, in these cases with deadly results. The notion of ‘home’ as defended by wartime propagandists hid a reality in which civilians were vulnerable to attack by enemy bombs from the outside and violent assault by family...
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Published: 01 December 2015
...The United States’ occupation during the Second World War brought unprecedented numbers of young and attractive young men to these small islands. The biological consequences soon became apparent, as almost a thousand part-American children were born. The colonial response was muted in comparison...
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Published: 28 November 2016
... in the Second World War. While the length of this trade war has generally been overlooked by historians, the effect of this ‘long’ Economic War on Irish public health has been similarly disregarded. This contribution argues that the Anglo-Irish economic war resulted in the mass slaughter of Irish herds due...
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Published: 09 February 2017
... Noël MacGabhann Liam Boyd David Keating Mary Francis Williams Desmond Fallon Brian Lemass Seán Catholic Church Second World War The Bell Irish News Agency Liberal ethic Mother and Child You need only say ‘book’, ‘leg’, ‘bet’, ‘dance’, ‘wife’, ‘poor’, ‘school’, not to mention a long word...
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Published: 01 February 2011
...Conservatives and extreme-right figures joined organisations such as the National Citizens Union. The Conservative Party's main objective after the Second World War remained the same as before it: to achieve and maintain power. It had adapted to changed circumstances and acquiesced in its opponents...
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Published: 01 October 2012
.... It then examines the fraught historical legacies of the Second World War and evaluates Henry Rousso's pioneering model of the evolutions in French memories of the Second World War, the ‘Vichy syndrome’. Lastly, the introduction examines critical approaches to the study of popular culture. It investigates...
Book
Published online: 21 May 2015
Published in print: 01 February 2015
... of the Second World War. By setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where crimes occurred and were discovered, the book presents a new popular history of the city, in which urban space circumscribed the investigation, classification and public perceptions of crime....
Book
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 10 July 2003
...It is widely assumed that the French in the British Isles during the Second World War were fully fledged supporters of General de Gaulle, and that, across the channel at least, the French were a ‘nation of resisters’. This study reveals that most exiles were on British soil by chance rather than...
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Published: 01 October 2009
...This chapter examines Northern Irish women's encounter with American troops during the Second World War, explaining that the involvement of women in both Britain and Australia with US troops has generally been located in a wider debate surrounding changing female sexual identity and its impact...
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Published: 01 October 2012
... Robert Zola Émile Stewart Terry Resistance Léo Malet André Héléna Gilles Morris Roman noir Second World War Paris outragé! Paris brisé! Paris martyrisé! Mais Paris libéré! Libéré pas lui-même, libéré par son peuple avec le concours des armées de la France, avec l'appui et le concours de la France...