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The rediscovery of Alexandre Ribot (1842-1923) is an opportunity to highlight an emblematic figure of the Third Republic
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Une vie en politique
Pierre Allorant, Jean-Marc Guislin
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
Northern France's university history is not exempt from ruptures, and the book, illustrated with a large number of documents, offers a ten-chapter summary of the major stages in this development, from the birth of the University in 1559-1562 to the beginning of 1968.
Des origines douaisiennes à mai 1968
Jean-François Condette
Ce numéro propose essentiellement des textes où Roland Dorgelès évoque la région dont il est originaire et où il fit la guerre en 14-18 : Somme et Pas-de-Calais.
Roland Dorgelès et les Hauts-de-France
Bernard Alluin
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)
Philippe Marchand
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.
Les Ardennes après l'occupation allemande
Nicolas Charles, Stéphane Tison
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 anciens combattants belges dans l'entre-deux-guerres
Martin Schoups, Antoon Vrints
Lucas Bernaerts
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.
Matthieu de Oliveira, Marie Derrien
