Post-War Reconstruction
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The city of Rijeka/Fiume underwent an array of transitions in the long twentieth century, from the port of Hungary in the Dual Monarchy to a free city, to D´Annunzio´s Italian Regency of Carnaro, annexation by Italy, incorporation into... more
The publication of the 'First Report of the National Advisory Council on Art Education' (1960), otherwise known as the first ‘Coldstream Report’, is a graspable moment of displacement in the British art world. It represents a shift... more
This article examines the reshaping of Belgrade's memorial landscape after the Second World War and after the 1999 NATO bombings, with a focus on the role of architects. As such, the paper shifts the scale of memory debates in two ways:... more
Summary briefing of the work of the Commission on Wartime Contractingin Iraq and Afghanistan
Most genocides are marked by the rewriting of history, but Serbian forces distinguished themselves by unmaking the landscape itself.
Dr Vittorio Montemaggi & Dr Michelle Fletcher, King's College London. Cities bring people together, and London unites everyone who studies and works at King's College London. Over centuries our remarkable city has been inscribed with... more
"The author analyzes the role of the American Arts and Monuments Section, established in the summer of 1945 within the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (Scap) in order to protect, preserve and restore “recognized works of cultural,... more
The article discusses the efforts to undertake economic reconstruction in Bosnia following the end of the war. It argues that, despite certain successes such as the rehabilitation of infrastructure and the privatization of the banking... more
Ever-increasingly, countries, states and regions are voicing a desire to be autonomous through a process of balkanization. This book explores the historical emergence, interdisciplinary application and current socio-spatial reasons why... more
Nella moderna storiografia occidentale, così come nella coscienza di massa dei cittadini, una visione unilaterale degli eventi che dalla prima crisi di Berlino hanno portato alla divi- sione della Germania è stata inevitabilmente... more
Final report of Commission on Wartime Contracting (CWC), an independent, bipartisan legislative commission established to study wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Created in Section 841 of the National Defense Authorization Act... more
The aim of the study is the problem of protecting cultural and historic properties in the cities, that have been affected and damaged as a result of war. It is shown that the properties of cultural and historical heritage are... more
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan submitted "At What Cost? Contingency Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan" to Congress on June 10, 2009, describing its operations to that date, identifying areas for research,... more
After the Civil War, much of Louisiana’s economy was left in ruins. Dealing with the loss of the war and the end of slavery, white Democrats in the Gulf South looked toward political leaders to reinstate a racial hierarchy and bring... more
As the United States descended into civil war, New Orleans’s century-old community of French-speaking free people of color — wealthy, educated, and influential — struck back against increased racial hostility and erosion of their rights.... more
Essay written for University of York MA in Conservation Studies (Building Conservation), 2017. In this essay I will focus on the issues of authenticity and integrity in post- war reconstruction by analysing two sites with opposing ideas... more
A assombrosa riqueza petrolífera de Angola e as suas histórias de conflito e desigualdade atrai-nos a construir narrativas binárias sobre o poder e a exploração, as quais não são, todavia, suficientes para uma compreensão precisa e uma... more
The article explores the way, how Holocaust crimes were prosecuted/or not prosecuted and framed by the post-war judiciary in West-Germany and addresses the deficits and consequences following from the approach chosen in post-war Germany.
Après quinze années de guerre civile et dans un climat politique très instable, Beyrouth, entre ruines et chantiers, s'est renouvelée dans un mouvement effréné qui échappe au consensus. La métropole libanaise, palimpseste où affleurent de... more
Jelen tanulmányban azt mutatom be, hogy az élelmiszerellátás 1945-ös állapota szempontjából a beszolgáltatási rendszer közösségre gyakorolt hatása, a kormányzás technológiája, a vidék-város kapcsolat, valamint az ember-állat viszony... more
This paper is concerned with the British experience of reconstruction following the destruction of World War 2, central to which was the question of cultural continuity at a time of radical reinvention of Britain’s towns and cities. This... more
Vingt-huit ans après sa fin, la guerre civile libanaise demeure un thème prégnant des oeuvres et discours d'artistes beyrouthins là où la société et les institutions en ont fait un tabou. L'art constitue dès lors une entrée privilégiée... more
Analyzes the desegregation of the University of South Carolina During Reconstruction (1873-1877).
Link to original:
http://www.aaihs.org/black-radicalism-and-the-tuition-free-university/
Link to original:
http://www.aaihs.org/black-radicalism-and-the-tuition-free-university/
This dissertation argues that educational praxis rooted in local epistemologies can combat the erosion of ethno-histories and provide quotidian securities free of war and exploitative practices of extraction and overuse of the land for... more
Maria Tatar states that the fairy-tale Beauty and the Beast depicts, “The transformative power of empathy, that encodes messages about […] romance, marriage, and ‘The Other’” (9). Because of these coded messages, the story and its many... more
Antebellum racism did not doom the Reconstruction project of black citizenship to failure. In the 1850s, a flood of African travel accounts captivated Anglo-American readers. These appeared at an opportune time for Northerners committed... more
This article examines how education and conflict are intertwined. Most war-affected youth are not in school and have little reasonable chance of ever attending. Sheer demographics alone— today’s world population is history’s youngest... more
One of the first essays to explore composite materials in architecture -- this article focuses on Postwar Plastics through precise analysis of Monsanto's House of the Future by MIT researchers for Tomorrowland -- Disneyland in the 1950s... more
Pred okvirno 70 leti je v drugi oziroma tretji številki Zgodovinskega časopisa potekala vroča diskusija, ki še danes ni razrešena. Gre za eno najbolj perečih vprašanj arheologije v Sloveniji, to je problem staroslovanskega svetišča na... more
Dans Mouchel (Didier) (dir.), 1945-1962. La reconstruction de la Normandie, Rouen : Éditions des Falaises, p. 168-173 article de synthèse sur l'ensemble des architectes et urbanistes ayant excercé dans la reconstruction normande, leur... more
Este libro se pregunta por algunas ideas naturalizadas. ¿Por qué el Estado debe hacerse cargo de los veteranos de Malvinas? ¿Por responsabilidad? ¿Porque son héroes? ¿Porque son víctimas? Y en todo caso, ¿cómo debe hacerse cargo? Cada... more
Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, tome LXXI, 2012, p. 9-52 Artilce de synthèse sur les bas-reliefs et œuvres d'art en lien avec l'architecture, dans le cadre de la reconstruction après la seconde guerre mondiale. Le... more
dans Bouillot (Corinne) (dir.), La reconstruction en Normandie et en Basse-Saxe après la seconde guerre mondiale. Histoire, mémoires et patrimoines de deux régions européennes, Rouen : PURH, 2013, p. 321-338
İnsanlık tarihinde beş bin yıldır devam eden savaşlar nedeniyle yıkılan kentlerin rehabilitasyonu, günümüzde hala önemli bir mimarlık sorusudur. Fiziksel rehabilitasyon, savaş gibi olağanüstü haller sonrası politik, psikolojik ve sosyal... more
In Jajce, during the second congress of the Antifascist Council of the People’s Liberation of Yugoslavia, on November 30th 1943, the National Investigative Commission on War Crimes of the Occupation and Auxiliary Forces was established.... more
Encouraging intersections between reflection and intervention, via a better understanding of how different kinds of public spaces and spatial practices can provide possibilities and opportunities for collective action. Such procedure is... more
Dans Haddad (Elie) (dir.), Post War Reconstruction. The Lessons from Europe. International symposium, Beyrouth, Lebanese american University, octobre 2018
The article discusses how the emerging genre of American and British science fiction symbolised and expressed Cold War anxieties after 1949. It begins by briefly showing how a popular Western symbolised the Berlin Airlift, then... more
dans Permis de (re)construire. VIre 1944-1965, Coutances : OREP, 2012, p. 44-59 La reconstruction de Vire est intéressante parce qu'on y lit bien le basculement de la doctrine urbanistique et architecturale du ministère de la... more