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.)
About: The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust, editor in chief Guy Miron, Yad Vashem, 2009.
About : A. Kershaw, Before Auschwitz. Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France, Routledge.
About: Gayer, Laurent and Christophe Jaffelot (eds.), Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation, Oxford University Press.
About: Andreas Glaeser, Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism, University of Chicago Press, 2011
About: Sophus A. Reinert, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy. Harvard University Press
About : Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination. Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.
Reviewed: Alexander Nagel, Medieval Modern: Art out of Time, London, New York, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 312 pp, 134 illustrations.
About: Roland Lardinois, Scholars and Prophets. Sociology of India from France in the 19th and 20th centuries, New Delhi, Social Science Press.
About : Jean-Claude Barbier, The Road to Social Europe: A Contemporary Approach to Political Cultures and Diversity in Europe, Routledge.
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.
About: Lucette Valensi, Ces étrangers familiers. Musulmans en Europe (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Payot.
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
About: Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, Basic Books
About : Jean-Claude Monod, Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie ? Politiques du charisme, Seuil.
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.
About:Ruth Fiori, L’invention du vieux Paris. Naissance d’une conscience patrimoniale dans la capitale, Wavre.
About: Timothy Brook, The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
About: Stéphane Van Damme, Métropoles de papier. Naissance de l’archéologie urbaine à Paris et à Londres (XVIIe-XXe siècle), Les Belles Lettres.
About: Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Viking Press.
About: Jeremy Jennings, Revolution and the Republic. A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century, Oxford
About: Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton University Press, 2010.
About: Thomas Blom Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa, Princeton University Press, 2012
Reviewed : Bruno Arcidiacono, Cinq types de paix. Une histoire des plans de pacification perpétuelle (XVIIe-XXe siècles), PUF
About: Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey, Between a Man and a Woman: Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage, New York, 2010
About: George C. Edwards III, Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency, Princeton University Press, 2012
About: François de Singly, Separated. Living Through a Break-Up, Armand Colin.
About: Jeffrey A. Winters, Oligarchy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011
About: M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography, Princeton, 2011
About: Larissa Zakharova, S’habiller à la soviétique. La mode et le Dégel en URSS, Paris, 2011
About: André Orléan, L’empire de la valeur. Refonder l’économie, Seuil, 2011
About: S. Kassow, Qui écrira notre histoire ? Les archives secrètes du ghetto de Varsovie, Grasset, 2011
Reviewed: Robert Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, The University of Chicago Press, 2012
About: Aragon, Lettres à André Breton (1918-1931), Gallimard
About: Luuk van Middelaar, Le passage à l’Europe. Histoire d’un commencement, translated from Dutch into French by Daniel Cunin and Olivier Vanwersch-Cot, Gallimard, 2012.
About: D. Yergin. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. Allen Lane, 2011
About: J. Dalarun, Gouverner, c’est servir. Essai de démocratie médiévale, Alma, 2012, 453 p.
About: James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948, Norton.
About: Maurice Halbwachs, Écrits d’Amerique, EHESS.
About: John Levi Martin, The Explanation of Social Action, Oxford University Press.
About: Marlène Benquet, Les damnés de la caisse. Grève dans un hypermarché, Éditions du croquant.
About: Serge Audier, Néo-libéralisme(s) – une archéologie intellectuelle, Grasset, , 2012.
About: Corine Pelluchon, Éléments pour une éthique de la vulnérabilité, Cerf
About: Edmund De Waal, La Mémoire retrouvée, Albin Michel.
About: Hanoch Sheinman (ed.), Promises and Agreements. Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press.
About: Jean-François Laé & Numa Murard, Deux générations dans la débine. Enquête dans la pauvreté ouvrière, Bayard
About: Vanessa Nurock, Sommes-nous naturellement moraux ? [Are we naturally moral beings?], PUF.