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Hunts for Jews and Golden Harvest

New research on the Holocaust in Poland

by Audrey Kichelewski, 30 March 2012

Is it possible to be at the same time a victim, a perpetrator, and a bystander of the Holocaust? What were the different attitudes of the Poles toward their Jewish neighbors before, during, and (...)

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The 993^rd Man

About: N. Mariot & C. Zalc, Face à la persécution. 991 Juifs dans la guerre, Odile Jacob.

by Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 9 March 2012

By using statistics to study the attitudes of Jews in the face of persecution in the French town of Lens between 1940 and 1944, two historians offer a quantitative sociological analysis of the (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Reforming the French Police

An Interview with Fabien Jobard, sociologist

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 3 February 2012

In their discussion of crime and the best ways to curb it, French politicians have relied on a crude opposition between “the culture of results” and neighborhood policing, a doctrine whose American (...)

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When Trust is Lost

The British and their Police after the Tottenham Riots

by Ben Bradford & Jonathan Jackson, 8 November 2011

Are rioters different from the rest of the British people when it comes to their relationship with the police? Public debates have answered in the affirmative, and demanded more aggressive (...)

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Predatory Power

About: G. Chamayou, Les chasses à l’homme, La Fabrique.

by Jean Bérard & translated by Arthur Goldhammer, 3 June 2011

Might manhunting—from helots to undocumented immigrants—be the paradigm of all power? This is the hypothesis that Grégoire Chamayou puts to the test in an ambitious and devastating essay that (...)

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The Mystery of the Terror

About : D. Edelstein, The Terror of Natural Right. Republicanism, the Cult of Nature and the French Revolution, University of Chicago Press.

by Annie Jourdan, 24 January 2011

According to the historian Dan Edelstein, the violent phase of the Terror arose directly out of the French revolutionaries’ fascination with natural right theory. This new interpretation is (...)

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The Republic, Nature and Right

by Dan Edelstein, 2 September 2010

How can a republic be perpetuated and civic virtue maintained? The historian Dan Edelstein responds to the criticisms posed by Annie Jourdan in her account of his book, The Terror of Natural (...)

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1914-1918: Understanding the Controversy

by François Buton & André Loez & Nicolas Mariot & Philippe Olivera, 11 June 2009

Is the extreme violence of the Great War explained by the culture of war, the brutalization of societies, the soldiers’ consent or the fact of constraint? While urging a form of open research that (...)

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