Femmes polonaises volontaires [guerre russo-polonaise, août 1920] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 60554

Femmes polonaises apprenant [le maniement ?] d'une mitrailleuse [guerre russo-polonaise, août 1920] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 60555

École(s) de Paris : enquête sur les compositeurs étrangers à Paris dans l'entre-deux-guerres

Thèse soutenue le 27 février 2015 devant un jury composé par Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis (présidente, Université de Montréal), François de Médicis (Université de Montréal), Christopher Moore (Université d'Ottawa) et Michel Duchesneau (Université de Montréal).

The fractured lives of German Bohemian children, born 1933-40 in the area known as Sudetenland: a memory study, Nablonz-Neugablonz

At the Paris Peace Conferences of 1918-1919, new states aspiring to be nation-states were created for 60 million people, but at the same time 25 million people found themselves as ethnic minorities. This change of the old order in Europe had a considerable impact on one such group, more than 3 million Bohemian German-speakers, later referred to as Sudeten Germans. After the demise of the Habsburg Empire In 1918, they became part of the new state of Czechoslovakia. In 1938, the Munich Agreement – prelude to the Second World War – integrated them into Hitler’s Reich; in 1945-1946 they were expelled from the reconstituted state of Czechoslovakia. At the centre of this War Child case study are German children from the Northern Bohemian town and district, formerly known as Gablonz an der Neisse, famous for exquisite glass art, now Jablonec nad Nisou in the Czech Republic. After their expulsion they found new homes in the post-war Federal Republic of Germany. In addition, testimonies have been drawn upon of some Czech eyewitnesses from the same area, who provided their perspective from the other side, as it were. It turned out to be an insightful case study of the fate of these communities, previously studied mainly within the context of the national struggle between Germans and Czechs. The inter-disciplinary research methodology adopted here combines history and sociological research to demonstrate the effect of larger political and social developments on human lives, not shying away from addressing sensitive political and historical issues, as far as these are relevant within the context of the study. The expellees started new lives in what became Neugablonz in post-war Bavaria where they successfully re-established the industries they had had to leave behind in 1945-1946. Part 1 of the study sheds light on the complex Czech-German relationship of this important Central European region, addressing issues of democracy, ethnicity, race, nationalism, geopolitics, economics, human geography and ethnography. It also charts the developments leading to the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after 1945. What is important in this War Child study is how the expellees remember their history while living as children in Sudetenland and later. The testimony data gained indicate that certain stereotypes often repeated within the context of Sudeten issues such as the confrontational nature of inter-ethnic relations are not reflected in the testimonies of the respondents from Gablonz. In Part 2 the War Child Study explores the memories of the former Sudeten war children using sociological research methods. It focuses on how they remember life in their Bohemian homeland and coped with the life-long effects of displacement after their expulsion. The study maps how they turned adversity into success by showing a remarkable degree of resilience and ingenuity in the face of testing circumstances due to the abrupt break in their lives. The thesis examines the reasons for the relatively positive outcome to respondents’ lives and what transferable lessons can be deduced from the results of this study.

Heritage and dialogue : using heritage conservation to strengthen the defences of peace

The Preamble to UNESCO's 1945 Constitution asserted that wars are created in the minds of men and that it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be built. Exploring this proposition was vital in the post World-War II years, but it is equally critical in the 21st century when world efforts towards peace continue to be undermined by intense forms of nationalism and ethnic rivalries that commonly use cultural differences as a justification for conflict.

However, while strengthening intercultural dialogue underlies the creation of UNESCO, its flagship World Heritage program under the 1972 World Heritage Convention seems to be losing touch with this motivating principle. In this paper I explore the politicization of the program and argue that a re-focus is needed if the program is to serve in improving intercultural dialogue, understanding and tolerance, and ultimately peace.

To this end it is suggested that ways in which the World Heritage program might provide a stronger focus on dialogue-creation should be prioritized. These include giving priority to new transnational inscriptions and developing new stratagies for interpreting sites in more cross-culturally sensitive ways.

Annales des mines, ou Recueil de mémoires sur l'exploitation des mines, et sur les sciences qui s'y rapportent.

Title from vol. t.p.

Bolʹshevizm i Germanīi︠a︡ /

Iz knigi Mīrovai︠a︡ voĭna / K. Gelʹferikha -- Ėkonomicheskoe polozhenīe Germanīi -- Versalʹskīĭ mir i bolʹshevizm.

Report on the steel strike of 1919,

Mode of access: Internet.

Friedrich der Vorläufige, die Zietz und die Anderen, die Weimarer Nationalversammlung, 1919-Februar/August-1919, von "A".

Mode of access: Internet.

The Advocate of peace.

Title from cover.

The closed union shop versus the open shop: their social and economic value compared,

At head of title: National Industrial Conference Board. Prize Essays, 1919-1920.

Joseph B. Thompson : (late a representative from Oklahoma) Memorial addresses delivered in the House of representatives of the United States, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session, April 18, 1920 /

"Proceedings in the Senate" : p. 45-56.

The political scene; an essay on the victory of 1918,

Reprinted from the New Republic. An address delivered before the American Academy of Political Science in April 1917 is included in the appendix. cf. Introd.