Letras Pátrias – the patriotic letters. This is how Brazilian writers qualified a literature that was given the mission of founding the Brazilian identity in the decades following the independence, proclaimed in 1822.

This book proposes a new approach to the history of ports, from the 16th century to the present day, by applying for the first time the concept of "resilience".

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.