War Studies - Presses universitaires du Septentrion

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The "War Studies" collection offers works of critical reflection on the military fact in the world, today and yesterday. All academic disciplines are welcome and multidisciplinary approaches are favored. The collection considers the military phenomenon in its entirety, publishing studies on conflicts, strategy, and geopolitical issues, as well as works on military organizations and the role and place of armies in societies in times of peace as well as in times of war, at any time and everywhere in the world.

The "War Studies" collection thus aims to decompartmentalize and multiply the viewpoints on men and women, ideas and myths, material, legal or economic conditions, which together make up the military universe.

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This book is the first comprehensive methodological and empirical synthesis in the field of strategic studies in France.

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Christelle Calmels, Léonard Colomba-Petteng

Jean-Vincent Holeindre

"In order to make people forget or to force them to remember, they erased the traces of the past and flooded the media with lies to which they wanted to give the appearance of history."

Quand l'Histoire sert à faire la guerre

Benjamin Deruelle

A transnational history of Western television series during the Cold War, with a focus on how World War II was rewritten to suit the political and economic interests of the time.

Faire écran

Les réécritures de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans les séries télévisées au temps de la guerre froide

Marjolaine Boutet

At the crossroads of cultural history and military history, this book offers several case studies as well as general reflections on the memory of battles as it is inscribed, in particular, in the places where they happened.

Après la bataille

Mémoires et usages des champs de bataille, du XVI^e siècle à nos jours

Catherine Denys, Benjamin Deruelle

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.

Naissance des cinémas militaires (1914-1939)

Sébastien Denis, Bénédicte Rochet

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.

Femmes en guerre

De l'époque médiévale à nos jours

Nicolas Handfield, Julie Le Gac

1918: the guns fall silent at last. However, there is nothing evident about coming out of the war. Whilst some long for a return to normality, others hope for a new future. These different aspirations and the continuous traces of the conflict still present complicate the advent of a "post-war world" which has yet to be defined.

La vie d'après. Les retours de la Grande Guerre

Matthieu de Oliveira, Marie Derrien

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.

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Claire Miot, Thomas Vaisset

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.

Les survivants

Les anciens combattants belges dans l'entre-deux-guerres

Martin Schoups, Antoon Vrints

Lucas Bernaerts

Durant la période nazie et la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les hommes allemands et autrichiens se trouvèrent placés au cœur d'injonctions contradictoires en matière de genre et de sexualité : acteurs de la violence, et vecteurs de la guerre, ils furent aussi, in fine, porteurs de la défaite.

Marcher au pas et trébucher

Masculinités allemandes à l'épreuve du nazisme et de la guerre

Patrick Farges, Elissa Mailänder

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.

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Les Ardennes après l'occupation allemande

Nicolas Charles, Stéphane Tison

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

Les marqueurs mémoriels de la guerre et de l'armée

La construction d'un espace du souvenir dans l'Est de la France

Jean-Noël Grandhomme, Laurent Jalabert

This book aims to question the specificities – or non-specificities – of the commitment of military people to the resistances. It will notably consider the tensions between the fact of being trained to obey orders, on the one part, and that of complying with an ethos gratifying the refusal to surrender and thus of joining a resistance organization,

Militaires en résistances en France et en Europe

Claire Miot, Guillaume Piketty

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L'Europe d'une guerre à l'autre : 1914-1945

Alice-Catherine Carls, Stephen D. Carls

The world changes. Armies evolve and must adapt to this new environment. The researchers and professionals gathered in this book analyze the contemporary armies in their relationship to the social and political environment and in their internal evolutions

Les logiques de transformation des armées

Emmanuel Cardona Gil, Sébastien Jakubowski

The art of argumentation does not yield its rights in war situations. On the contrary, the preparation of conflicts, the conduct of operations and the reconstruction of peace are intense moments of persuasion, negotiation and confrontation in which public speaking occupies its full place.

Argumenter en guerre

Discours de guerre, sur la guerre et dans la guerre de l'Antiquité à nos jours

Emmanuelle Cronier, Benjamin Deruelle

To defend its territory and constitute its army, the French Republic engaged into deep military reforms after French-Prussian war. Numerous military buildings were then built or modernized.

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Nord-Pas-de-Calais

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Although civil wars remain consubstantial with any form of society, structurally and circumstantially threatened with splitting, or even bursting and, therefore, tipping into a multiform and often paroxysmal violence, this type of conflict has long struggled to find its place in the scientific field.

Guerres et paix civiles de l'Antiquité à nos jours

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