Abstract This article introduces the concept of ‘strategic nationalism’ to explain shift national allegiance most Alsatians and Lorrainers from Germany France during First World War. Combining historiographical ‘national indifference’ with rational‐choice theories nationalism, examines why a growing number local citizens came defy authorities' relentless demand loyalty. Contrary previous studie...

This study focuses on the fossil beetles assigned previously to the family Hydrophilidae described from the localities in the southern part of the Upper Rhine Graben: Brunstatt (France, Alsace) and Kleinkems (Germany, Baden-Württemberg) (both dated ca. to Eocene-Oligocene boundary, 34 Ma). The identity of Escheria convexa Förster, 1891 is fixed by the designation of its neotype, the species is ...

The aim of the project described in this paper was to define a three level frame survey mode of an old building: the so called “Andlau’s Seigneury”, Alsace, France. Two different techniques were compared for the data acquisition: 3D TLS and point extraction and classical surveying with a total station. According to them, different modeling processes were also defined for the creation of a 3D vi...

Petroleum oil was used for many centuries in Egypt, China, Mesopotamia and Persia for heating, lighting, roadmaking and building. Small accumulations of oil were reported at Pechelbronn in Alsace in 1498 and in Poland in 1506, and Marco Polo noted 'oil springs' at Baku on the Caspian Sea in the latter part of the thirteenth century. Raleigh, in 1595, reported the existence of the Trinidad Pitch...