As part of the dynamics of the centenary of the First World War, this book analyzes the birth of the military cinematographic services that hatched everywhere in the world when, at the heart of the conflict, the cinema, then quite a recent medium, committed itself to the service of States and/or the armies.
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Sébastien Denis, Bénédicte Rochet
The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War gave rise to numerous publications. The economy was not forgotten, but the perspective often remained very national. This book focuses on the economy of Germany as the allies' main opponent and war loser.
L'économie allemande pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
Marcel Boldorf, Hervé Joly
The cultural, territorial, social, and economic transformations of Europe between 1914 and 1945 were the product of two world wars within the context of modernization and world power ambitions. Europe From War to War –1914 - 1945 provides a comprehensive coverage of leaders' decisions as well as societal trends on a territory stretching from the...
Alice-Catherine Carls, Stephen D. Carls
In May 1920, on the occasion of an International Exhibition for the Renaissance of the liberated regions, Georges Lyon Lille chief education officer, asked the teachers to reply to a questionnaire and asked the pupils to write an essay about their memories at war and a narrative dramatic experience they could have been watching as well.
Souvenirs des élèves du département du Nord (1920)
Jean-François Condette
Philippe Marchand
Wars do not break out without preparation. This book underlines unknown political and cultural warning signs that occurred during the decades preceding the year 1914.
Précurseurs politiques et culturels de la Grande guerre
Vincent Chambarlhac, Véronique Liard
While historiography often insists on the French-German antagonism dominating the period 1870 to 1918, a new analysis of the « hereditary enmity" allows on the contrary to highlight contacts, links and exchanges between the two countries.
1870-1918. Volume 7
Mareike König, Elise Julien
The unexpected and lasting resistance of Maubeuge during its siege in 1914 led to a controversy around General Fournier through the twentieth century.
Hans von Zwehl
Between 1914 and 1918, the Nord and Pas-de-Calais geographical areas met numerous difficulties. About 70% of the Nord and 25% of the Pas-de-Calais had to face a strong German occupation. On the west part of the front line, the territory became a strategic place for the allied armies, landing on Calais, Boulogne and Dunkerque. With such terrible...
Élèves, étudiants et enseignants dans la Grande Guerre en Nord-Pas-de-Calais
The Great War tore the Roman Catholic Church: in both camps, it used the same religious references to legitimate the conflict. In the occupied dioceses, the confrontation of soldiers and civilians, churchgoers and priests of opposite nations maintained representations which were forbidding any real dialogue.
L'Église déchirée entre Gott mit uns et le Dieu des armées
Xavier Boniface, Jean Heuclin
Living through a military occupation also means living with the enemy. The contributions presented here examine this idea, in 1914-18 just as in 1939-45 or during the periods of 'leaving wars'; in France and Belgium just as in Poland, Central Africa, or Germany. Between dialogue and power struggles, occupiers and occupied alike adapted to a ...
Expériences d'occupation, transferts, héritages (1914-1949)
James Connolly, Emmanuel Debruyne
The Great War strongly marked the western societies of the XXth century until our days, quite particularly Germany and France. However, beyond a common history connected to both world conflicts, the World War I engendered memories at the same time close and different.
Regards croisés franco-allemands de 1918 à nos jours
Laurent Jalabert, Reiner Marcowitz
The history of Popular Education (Non Formal Education) has aroused research work for thirty years but yet no review of this work has been published. 28 contributions dealing with France, other European countries and Quebec focus on the complex relationship to school, gender and the political dimension of Popular Education.
Perspectives françaises et internationales
Carole Christen, Laurent Besse
Georges Lyon, the regional Chief Education Officer, facing the German invasion, decided in 1914 to remain committed to supporting school and university structures belonging to the occupied part of the Lille region in order to keep them alive. During the War, he wrote his Memoirs which can be considered as a precious testimony to better understand..
Georges Lyon
How do the civilians face the supplies' disruption during the military occupation of Lille by the German army? To answer this question, the survey has to concern social relationships and redistribution of the powers, from 1914 until 1919, in a context of dramatic hardships and daily fears after the beginning of the war.
Ravitaillement et alimentation à Lille 1914-1919
Stéphane Lembré
Cette nouvelle édition présente cinq journaux remarquables d'habitants du Nord, combattants et civils, rédigés entre 1914 et 1918 dans les tranchées et dans la région occupée. Ils restituent, cent ans après la Grande Guerre et la disparition complète d’une génération, des situations d’hommes et de femmes qui ont vécu la résolution, la souffrance...
Annette Becker
En cette année 2014 qui marque le point de départ de la commémoration du centenaire de la Grande Guerre, il nous a semblé opportun de nous pencher à nouveau sur ce qu'ont pu apporter de singulier dans l’évocation de l’impact de ce conflit sur les hommes des auteurs originaires du Nord ou dont l’itinéraire, entre 1914 et 1918...
La guerre 14-18
Magali Domain
L'École n'est pas hors du monde et hors du temps. Lorsque les « malheurs de la guerre » frappent un territoire et ses habitants, les acteurs éducatifs et les structures scolaires et universitaires sont touchés. La mobilisation des hommes pour le combat atteint les personnels et les plus grands élèves ainsi que les étudiants, qui délaissent...
Acteurs et institutions éducatives dans les tourmentes guerrières (XVIIe-XXe siècles)
Alors que les hommes mobilisés sont loin des leurs demeurés à l'arrière, le lien de la correspondance devient essentiel pour ces Femmes sur le pied de guerre de la famille Resal. Leurs lettres maintiennent le contact, pendant toute la Grande Guerre, entre les membres de cette famille d'ingénieurs proche de certains généraux et de l'entourage...
Chronique d'une famille bourgeoise 1914-1918
Pierre Allorant, Jacques Resal
Brigitte Krulic
