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Zomia, Land Without State
About: James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed. An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, Yale University Press
by & translated by , 20 May -
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Interweaving Eastern and Western Perspectives
About: Hans Belting, Florence et Bagdad. Une histoire du regard entre orient et occident, Paris 2012. (English translation: Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad Renaissance Art and Arab Science, Harvard University Press, 2011.)
by & translated by , 2 May -
Ghettos: Centers of Jewish Resistance?
About: The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust, editor in chief Guy Miron, Yad Vashem, 2009.
by & translated by , 25 April -
The “Ambiguities” of Irène Némirovsky
About : A. Kershaw, Before Auschwitz. Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France, Routledge.
by & translated by , 18 April -
Muslims on the Decline?
About: Gayer, Laurent and Christophe Jaffelot (eds.), Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation, Oxford University Press.
by , 16 April -
With or Without the Chinese People?
Intellectual Representations of Social Instability in early 21st century Chinaby , 8 April -
The Life of Others (and Ourselves)
About: Andreas Glaeser, Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism, University of Chicago Press, 2011
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Reassessing Enlightenment Economics
About: Sophus A. Reinert, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy. Harvard University Press
by , 25 March -
1939-1945: The Germans exterminate the Jews
About : Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination. Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.
by & translated by , 21 March -
Not Ruled by Time and Space
Reviewed: Alexander Nagel, Medieval Modern: Art out of Time, London, New York, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 312 pp, 134 illustrations.
by , 18 March -
The Fascination for India
About: Roland Lardinois, Scholars and Prophets. Sociology of India from France in the 19th and 20th centuries, New Delhi, Social Science Press.
by & translated by , 11 March -
Fighting for a Fair Wage
The Changing Demands of the Chinese Working Classby & translated by , 7 March -
Europe’s Social Dimension
About : Jean-Claude Barbier, The Road to Social Europe: A Contemporary Approach to Political Cultures and Diversity in Europe, Routledge.
by & translated by , 4 March -
Plutocracy in America
About: Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry Brady, The Unheavenly Chorus, Unequal Political voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy, 2012. Martin Gilens, in Affluence and Influence. Economic Inequality and Political Power in America, 2012. Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics, How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, 2011.
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The Benefits of Anachronism
About: Lucette Valensi, Ces étrangers familiers. Musulmans en Europe (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Payot.
by , 21 February -
Exploiting the Urban Poor
About : Matthew Desmond, « Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty », American Journal of Sociology ; Alice Goffman, « On the run : Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto », American Sociological Review
by & translated by , 18 February -
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Timothy Snyder and his Critics
About: Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, Basic Books
by & translated by , 14 February -
Choosing Our Leaders
About : Jean-Claude Monod, Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie ? Politiques du charisme, Seuil.
by , 11 February -
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What is Colonial Science?
About: Helen Tilley, Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950, Chicago UP; Pierre Singaravélou, Professer l’Empire: Les “sciences coloniales” en France sous la IIIe République, Publications de la Sorbonne.
by , 31 January -
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How Paris Became a Museum
About:Ruth Fiori, L’invention du vieux Paris. Naissance d’une conscience patrimoniale dans la capitale, Wavre.
by & translated by , 24 January -
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The Weather Factor
About: Timothy Brook, The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
by , 17 January -
Urban Archaeology: A Science of the City
About: Stéphane Van Damme, Métropoles de papier. Naissance de l’archéologie urbaine à Paris et à Londres (XVIIe-XXe siècle), Les Belles Lettres.
by , 14 January -
The Creation of Defence in China
Revisiting the Trial of the Gang of Fourby & translated by , 17 December 2012 -
Malcolm X and the Search for the Universality of Blackness
About: Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Viking Press.
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Artistic Beauty as a Political Weapon
Contemporary Art from 1960 to 2010by & translated by , 6 December 2012 -
The Politics of Disagreement
About: Jeremy Jennings, Revolution and the Republic. A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century, Oxford
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From the New South to the Global South
About: Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton University Press, 2010.
by , 21 November 2012
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