Search results for " Civil War"

Zones d'ombre: représentation du combat dans le cinéma national durant la guerre d'Espagne

2011

Laurent Véray signale que les images emblématiques de la Première Guerre mondiale, qui se sont installées dans la mémoire collective, sont en majorité " des faux". La révolution (technologique de la photographie, qui se développa avec la guerre d'Espagne, ainsi que la croissance spectaculaire du photojournalisme et des revues illustrées, ont répandu l'idée que le direct était la façon la plus juste de représenter les batailles. Ainsi, comme Robert Capa, David Seymour (Chim), Gerda Taro, Agustí Centelles et tant d'autres qui avaient capturé l'instant, nous supposons, presque automatiquement, qu'il en fut de même pour les opérateurs de cinéma. Or ce ne fut pas le cas. Il est vrai que le poids…

Air‑raid shelters: civil war heritage in Valencia city

2017

Memorial sites are an interesting part of the wide range of Spanish Civil War heritage. The city of Valencia preserves a large number of vestiges of that time, among them, more than three hundred air‑raid shelters. In this article we consider these bomb shelters, taking into account the new circumstances relating to this heritage, starting in 2017, when new legislative and management scenarios were set in motion. The approval of the Valencian Autonomous Community Law for Democratic Memory and Coexistence, a recent modification of the Valencian Cultural Heritage Act which expressly highlights civil war heritage, as well as unprecedented activity by the Valencia City Council regarding its pre…

Arqueologia de la Memòria: els refugis antiaeris a la ciutat de València

2011

The Spanish Civil War has left many testimonies: written sources, materials remains and, for the moment, while the witnesses still live, even oral reports. However, the value given to these sources varies depending on factors that often have little to do with scientific precision and much to do with political considerations. In line with the current debate about historic memory and the role of archaeology and heritage management in its construction, we deem it necessary that archaeologists, as well as historians, ask to take part. The aim of this paper is to analyze air-raid shelters that still exist in the city of Valencia to reclaim their heritage value and their importance in preserving …

Health and the war. Changing schemes and health conditions during the Spanish civil war

2008

This paper focuses on the health reforms during the republican Spain (1931-1939) and the crisis derived from the three-year of civil war. It considers how the war affected the health system and the impairment of health conditions of the population during the late 1930s, considering the changing conditions caused by the conflict. Some of the specific topics analysed are the changing healthcare system, the adaptation of health organization after the outbreak of the war, the impact of the war on the health of the population and epidemiological changes, the problem of the refugees and the clinical studies by experts, mainly on undernourishment.

The powers of masculinization in humanitarian storytelling: the case of the surgeon María Gómez Álvarez in the Varsovia Hospital (Toulouse, 1944–1950)

2020

This contribution is focused on analysing the power of 'masculinization' through which traditional humanitarian storytelling has been shaped. Strongly marked by a patriarchal vision, humanitarian accounts have traditionally hidden the work of women while stressing that performed by men, who appeared represented as true protagonists and, even, as heroes. In particular, this article analyses the professional career of a Spanish female surgeon named Maria Gomez (1914-1975) between 1944 and 1950, when she worked in a small charitable hospital based in Toulouse (France) for improving the health-care conditions of Spanish Republican refugees. Known as Hospital Varsovia or as Walter B. Cannon Memo…

The First Decades of Independence – White Finland

2019

The Republic of Finland was established after a bloody civil war between the Reds and the Whites in 1918. This chapter analyses the emergence of Finnish independence and the role higher education played in the new republic in the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, the University of Helsinki was Finland’s dominant higher education institution, even though one public pedagogical college and seven private higher education institutions were also established: two universities (one Swedish-speaking and one Finnish-speaking), three business schools, a technical university, and a higher education institution of social sciences.

“The Civil War and the Call for Southern Literature”

1991

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The War Diaries of Hélène Berr and Etty Hillesum: Jewish Women in Occupied Paris and Amsterdam, 1941–1944

2021

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“Thoughts on the Origins and Significance of the American Civil War on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial of the Outbreak of the Bloodiest Conflict…

2011

“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand': Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish and American National Unity in 1858.”

2007

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