Combining War history and gender studies, Femmes en Guerre explores the multiple forms of the presence of women within armies, their experiences of war and the construction of « femininities » in war contexts.

Towards a material history of the restoration site (1830-1914)

This book analyses the question of surrender from a long-term and anthropological perspective. The way how fighting end reveals that even extreme violent conflicts are always a matter of negotiations between belligerents.

320,000 out of 360,000 mobilized Belgian soldiers survived the First World War. Once back home, these war veterans formed a powerful social movement that put significant pressure on the Belgian establishment. In this book, Martin Schoups and Antoon Vrints analyze the persistent political dynamism of the Belgian veterans.

When did peace begin after the Great War? How were economic activities, social activities and celebrations reconstituted? Using the example of the Ardennes, the only department occupied during the entire war, ravaged in 1918 by the fighting of the liberation, 20 researchers question the return to normalcy.

What does it mean to be German? Where do the different German-speaking nations get their common culture? German national ethnology, called Volkskunde, is the result of a long history, which is linked to the political construction of Germany, but also of the German-speaking world as a whole.

The memorial markers of the war and the army. The construction of a space of remembrance in Eastern France.

Understanding why a product is clearly identified, distinct from others and recognized for its specific qualities is a key question for figuring out economy: reputation is the cornerstone of this process.

The contributions of this volume are the consequents of a research project at Lille (UMR 8164 Halma) destined to tackle the problematic of fire in the city under many angles: domestic, religious and industrial using and the examples of voluntary or accidentals fires, since the Mediterranean Orient t the north of ...