News from the Western Front: guidelines for the excavation of casualties of the First and Second World War (Flanders, Belgium)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110649
Abstract: Abstract In cooperation with many other actors, the Flanders Heritage Agency (Flemish Government ) set up a guideline with procedures how to act when human remains are found in the soil of Flanders (the northern… read more here.
Keywords: first second; war; world war; second world ... See more keywords
Veterans, Victims, and Memory: The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland. By Joanna Wawrzyniak. Studies in Contemporary History 4. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2015. 259 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Maps. $60.95, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2017.33
Abstract: identity in Poland by methodically unpacking the variety of discourses surrounding the sex trade. She convincingly integrates the Polish issues into the broader literature on prostitution, class, urbanization, migration, and professionalization. The unique aspects of… read more here.
Keywords: poland; politics second; second world; memory politics ... See more keywords
Performative filiality and Chinese voluntary associations in transnational commemoration of the Second World War
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DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2363525
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines the transnational commemoration of the Second World War through the Chinese Expeditionary Force (CEF) Fever campaign. The campaign focuses on repatriating the remains of Chinese soldiers who died in the China-Burma-India… read more here.
Keywords: war; second world; world war; transnational commemoration ... See more keywords
Ashley Jackson. Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq
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DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2019.1567124
Abstract: In this absorbing and highly readable account of the Persian Gulf during the Second World War, Professor Ashley Jackson says Iran and Iraq, like other overlooked yet vital sideshows, “deserve due i... read more here.
Keywords: ashley jackson; second world; world war; iran iraq ... See more keywords
Soviet Street Children and the Second World War: welfare and social control under Stalin
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DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2017.1320144
Abstract: to interpret the ultimately unique survivor video testimonies, including the challenging task of translating them. Alexander Prenninger’s and David Gramling’s essays at the beginning of the book analyse the power structure within the camp and… read more here.
Keywords: second world; soviet street; world war; children second ... See more keywords
Women and Evacuation in the Second World War: femininity, domesticity and motherhood
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DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2020.1732138
Abstract: the early twentieth century, but also white/non-white relations more broadly. The author strikes a balance between the particulars and the general. A few more worthwhile comparisons with the legacy of wetnursing in the United States,… read more here.
Keywords: femininity domesticity; second world; war femininity; world war ... See more keywords
The Home Front in the ‘Westminster Village': women staff in Parliament during the Second World War
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DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2016.1148509
Abstract: ABSTRACT The experience of women staff in the Houses of Parliament during the Second World War, although an unusual example of the Home Front in action, was perhaps surprisingly typical in how parts of its… read more here.
Keywords: home; second world; world war; war ... See more keywords
We will fight them on the centre ground, we will never remember: the Second World War, psychocultural repression and liberal configurations of modern British identity
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DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2024.2306267
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article argues that a form of what Sigmund Freud termed ‘abnormal repression’ [(2014). Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. Read & Co. (Originally published in 1910] writ large onto British cultural memory is essential to… read more here.
Keywords: world war; second world; identity; repression ... See more keywords
Socialism, Heritage and Internationalism after 1945. The Second World and Beyond.
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DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2020.1852299
Abstract: ABSTRACT The international histories of cultural heritage protection have been commonly focussed on the Eurocentric trajectories of heritage evolution in the twentieth century and trace the Western roots of cultural globalisation in the field of… read more here.
Keywords: socialist states; second world; heritage; cultural heritage ... See more keywords
The Missing Second World: On Poland and Postcolonial Studies
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DOI: 10.1080/1369801x.2019.1585911
Abstract: This essay aims to place Poland in the field of postcolonial studies. Its point of departure is the problematic place of the so-called Second World within the field of postcolonial studies: as a region which… read more here.
Keywords: world; world poland; postcolonial studies; second world ... See more keywords
The impact of the Second World War on postwar social spending
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DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12236
Abstract: The huge quantitative literature on postwar social spending almost entirely neglected war asa possible explanatory factor of social spending dynamics. Given the mass carnage and the enormoussocial needs caused by the Second World War, this… read more here.
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