'The age of a mistaken nationalism': histoire croisée, cross-national exchange and an Anglo-French network of periodicals

This article uses the toolbox of histoire croisée to study Anglo-French interaction in Ford Madox Ford's English Review and Transatlantic Review and T. S. Eliot's Criterion. It argues that histoire croisée allows for a more nuanced sense of processes of internationalization than Pierre Bourdieu's nationally inspired field theory and accounts for the selected magazines' varying degrees of success by combining both methodological perspectives. While Eliot's Criterion, despite its European ambitions, catered for a predominantly British audience, Ford's Transatlantic Review lacked a well-defined national readership, thus failing to acquire symbolic (and therefore economic) capital in Paris, London, and New York

Measuring Earthquakes from Optical Satellite Images

Système pour l'Observation de la Terre images are used to map ground displacements induced by earthquakes. Deformations (offsets) induced by stereoscopic effect and roll, pitch, and yaw of satellite and detector artifacts are estimated and compensated. Images are then resampled in a cartographic projection with a low-bias interpolator. A subpixel correlator in the Fourier domain provides two-dimensional offset maps with independent measurements approximately every 160 m. Biases on offsets are compensated from calibration. High-frequency noise (0.125 m^-1 ) is ~0.01 pixels. Low-frequency noise (lower than 0.001 m^-1 ) exceeds 0.2 pixels and is partially compensated from modeling. Applied to the Landers earthquake, measurements show the fault with an accuracy of a few tens of meters and yields displacement on the fault with an accuracy of better than 20 cm. Comparison with a model derived from geodetic data shows that offsets bring new insights into the faulting process

La Revue des marraines (1916–17) : a journal for war godmothers and their godchildren

This article is situated at the crossroads of First World War and periodical studies. It sheds light on the phenomenon of ‘war godmothers’ [‘marraines’], women who supported soldiers at the front by sending them parcels and letters. The so-called godmothers made use of the mainstream press to advertise their services, and founded periodicals of their own. In this article, we examine the representation of war godmothers in the periodical press and uncover La Revue des marraines, a handwritten journal created by the Melles Picard in Paris. The analysis addresses the little-known phenomenon of the war godmothers, the relation between godmother and godson, and changing gender roles. It further questions the importance of handwritten journals during the war, when paper and other means were scarce