@article{Martykanova2017, author = {Martykanova, Darina}, title = {A Gateway to the World}, series = {Diasporas : circulations, migrations, histoire}, volume = {29}, journal = {Diasporas : circulations, migrations, histoire}, publisher = {Presses Universitaires du Midi}, address = {Toulouse}, issn = {1637-5823}, doi = {10.4000/diasporas.718}, pages = {33 -- 51}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In the second half of the 19th century, the French {\´E}cole centrale des arts et manufactures became one of the engineering schools that enjoyed a worldwide reputation. There were many foreigners among its students. This article focuses on the graduates born in the Ottoman Empire, particularly on Jews and Armenians. It analyses their backgrounds, their common features and their professional careers, tracing their links with other centraliens. The patterns in the Ottoman centraliens' professional trajectories help us picture a world full of opportunities where highly qualified men could cross borders and build careers with ease, but where, at the same time, origins, allegiances, contacts and credentials mattered greatly.}, language = {en} } @article{Koeppen2016, author = {K{\"o}ppen, Paul}, title = {A Possible Peace? The Interwar Franco-German Relationship in Historiographical Perspective}, series = {Ricerche di Storia Politica}, volume = {19}, journal = {Ricerche di Storia Politica}, publisher = {Societ{\~A}  editrice il Mulino}, address = {Bologna}, issn = {1120-9526}, doi = {10.1412/82730}, pages = {47 -- 58}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This essay aims at discussing the new literature on Franco-German relations during the period 1918-1930. It highlights how many works now question the idea that the Treaty of Versailles and the European order that ensued inevitably wore within themselves the seeds of a new war. On the contrary, by examining in particular the detente efforts of the Twenties, the most recent historiography often emphasizes how the inevitability of the authoritarian turn of Twenties and Thirties, which led to the Second World War, has often been exaggerated by historians and that different paths could have been undertaken.}, language = {it} }