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Alfred Angeletti est un peintre niçois (1919-1991) qui, sans avoir été véritablement rattaché à l'école de Nice, peut être considéré comme l'un de ses acteurs influents. Son travail artistique (en peintures et dessins) articule les époques qu'il traverse, participe des expériences les plus novatrices (toiles libres) et se tient rigoureusement dans un territoire singulier et autonome. Germain Roesz, après un premier ouvrage consacré à l'oeuvre d'Angeletti paru aux éditions de la Différence en 1991 revient ici sur le parcours du peintre au travers des dessins en tissant les lignes de force et le caractère puissant de l'oeuvre. Il montre comment le dessin traverse (et croise) dans le même temps son époque et s'écarte des sentiers battus pour affirmer sa singularité. L'avant-propos de Raphaël Monticelli, grand connaisseur de l'école de Nice montre bien combien des artistes intéressés autant, sinon plus, par le processus que par le résultat se soient sentis si proches d'Alfred Angeletti. Oeuvre vivante que ce texte cherche à remettre au centre d'un débat conséquent et fertile sur la peinture et le dessin dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle.
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How did United States-Iraq relations deteriorate into a double-feature war that destroyed Iraq's Ba'th regime, a secular sovereign government, and dragged the United States into an unforeseen chaos that has limited its willingness and ability to take part in other world affairs? The facts are well known, but until now there has been no serious academic study of the fundamental mutual misunderstandings between Iraq and the United States. Here Binah examines the perceptions, preconceptions and misunderstandings of both sides over a period of twelve years from 1967 (the Six Day War) to 1979 (the emergence of the Khomeini Islamic Republic in Iran), providing the key background to the fatal 1990 deaf-dialogue between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and American ambassador April Glaspie which led to the first Gulf war. The book deals with three main issues which are the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf, the Kurdish rebellion and the Arab-Israeli conflict - including the increasing political involvement of the American Jewish community in matters relating to Israel and Jews in the Arab lands, as the influence of their organizations grew. While examining these issues, Binah bears in mind the overarching concerns at that time of the Cold War and the international oil market. This thorough study provides a detailed and exact report of 'what happened' alongside the broader discussion of 'why did it happen', giving the reader the framework for such an examination.
United States --- Iraq --- Foreign relations --- Persian Gulf War (1991) --- Since 1958 --- Iraq-Kuwait Crisis (1990-1991)
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"Par une soirée d'août, Antonia, flânant sur le port de Calvi après un samedi passé à immortaliser les festivités d'un mariage sous l'objectif de son appareil photo, croise un groupe de légionnaires parmi lesquels elle reconnaît Dragan, jadis rencontré pendant la guerre en ex-Yougoslavie. Après des heures d'ardente conversation, la jeune femme, bien qu'épuisée, décide de rejoindre le sud de l'île, où elle réside. Une embardée précipite sa voiture dans un ravin : elle est tuée sur le coup. L'office funèbre de la défunte sera célébré par un prêtre qui n'est autre que son oncle et parrain, lequel, pour faire rempart à son infinie tristesse, s'est promis de s'en tenir strictement aux règles édictées par la liturgie. Mais, dans la fournaise de la petite église, les images déferlent de toutes les mémoires, reconstituant la trajectoire de l'adolescente qui s'est rêvée en photographe, de la jeune fille qui, au milieu des années 1980, s'est jetée dans les bras d'un trop séduisant militant nationaliste avant de se résoudre à travailler pour un quotidien local où le "reportage photographique" ne semblait obéir à d autres fins que celles de perpétuer une collectivité insulaire mise a mal par les luttes sanglantes entre clans nationalistes. C'est lasse de cette vie qu'Antonia, succombant à la tentation de s'inventer une vocation, décide, en 1991, de partir pour l'ex-Yougoslavie, attirée, comme tant d'autres avant elle, dans le champ magnétique de la guerre, cet irreprésentable. De l'échec de l'individu à l'examen douloureux des apories de toute représentation, Jérôme Ferrari explore, avec ce roman bouleversant d'humanité, les liens ambigus qu'entretiennent l'image, la photographie, le réel et la mort."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Persian Gulf War, 1991 --- Persian Gulf syndrome --- Veterans --- Health insurance claims --- Diseases --- Medical care --- United States. --- Rules and practice. --- Persian Gulf War (1991) --- 1991
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Macroeconomics. --- India --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions. --- Economics --- Since 1991
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Russia (Federation) --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Civilization --- Regional documentation --- Russia --- Russia (Federation) - Politics and government - 1991 --- -Russia (Federation) - Economic conditions - 1991 --- -Russia (Federation) - Social conditions - 1991 --- -Russia (Federation) - Civilization
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In a period when Western military engagement has unleashed violent sectarianism global terrorism, and become a catalyst for the biggest exodus of migrants since the Second World War, the 1999 Nato intervention in Kosovo remains a unique and shining example of a process that led to a peaceful transition from vicious ethnic war to modern democracy. Less than twenty years ago, a young ethnic Albanian student leader called Hashim Thaçi, led a revolution against Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian tyrant with the biggest military force in Europe, and convinced the West to bomb Belgrade out of Kosovo. The aerial bombardment beckoned a period of unrivalled peace in the Balkans which Western leaders who sought to subsequently overturn other tyrannies in foreign lands would view with envy as a rare successful model. Nato intervention in Kosovo, led by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, resulted in democracy and the rule of law. By contrast, however, attempts by George W. Bush to effect regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by America, Britain and France to do the same in Libya, have left lethal power vacuums filled by Islamist insurgents, and brought about the downfall of Western leaders themselves. This book is the story of the rare success of Western military intervention and the first biography of the new President of Kosovo, the youngest country in Europe.
Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie (1991-1995) --- Thaçi, Hashim, --- Kosovo --- Histoire.
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This title was first published in 2000: Although the main tragedy of the wars which first erupted in 1991 in former Yugoslavia lies within the Balkan region, the war's shadow is global in outreach. Using a mainly ethnographic approach, this is an exploration of how the Balkan wars have affected the everyday life and mental health in particular of Serbian immigrants and their families in Australia, and how they have responded to long-distance grief, devastation and dislocation.
Serbs --- Serbs --- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 --- War and civilization --- Ethnic identity. --- Psychology. --- Social aspects
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In this commemorative volume, India's top business leaders and economic luminaries come together to provide a balanced picture of the consequences of the country's economic reforms, which were initiated in 1991. What were the reforms? What were they intended for? How have they affected the overall functioning of the economy? With contributions from Mukesh Ambani, Narayana Murthy, Sunil Mittal, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Shivshankar Menon, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, T.N. Ninan, Sanjaya Baru, Naushad Forbes, Omkar Goswami and R. Gopalakrishnan, India Transformed delves deep into the life of an economically liberalized India through the eyes of the people who helped transform it.
E-books --- Economic order --- India --- Structural adjustment (Economic policy) --- Industrial policy --- Since 1991 --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions
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