Reviews
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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 -
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
by , 4 April -
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 -
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.
by , 25 February -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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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.
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Freedom as Anxiety
About: Thomas Blom Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa, Princeton University Press, 2012
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Peace perpetually reconsidered
Reviewed : Bruno Arcidiacono, Cinq types de paix. Une histoire des plans de pacification perpétuelle (XVIIe-XXe siècles), PUF
by & translated by , 12 November 2012 -
Homophobia in the United States
About: Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey, Between a Man and a Woman: Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage, New York, 2010
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The Limits of Presidential Power
About: George C. Edwards III, Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency, Princeton University Press, 2012
by & translated by , 2 November 2012 -
Separations: The Female Perspective
About: François de Singly, Separated. Living Through a Break-Up, Armand Colin.
by & translated by , 29 October 2012 -
Billionaires: Oligarchy within Democracy?
About: Jeffrey A. Winters, Oligarchy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011
by , 26 October 2012 -
The Formation of a Leader
About: M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography, Princeton, 2011
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Fashion, Soviet Style?
About: Larissa Zakharova, S’habiller à la soviétique. La mode et le Dégel en URSS, Paris, 2011
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Towards a Paradigm Shift in Economics?
About: André Orléan, L’empire de la valeur. Refonder l’économie, Seuil, 2011
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Who Will Write Our History?
About: S. Kassow, Qui écrira notre histoire ? Les archives secrètes du ghetto de Varsovie, Grasset, 2011
by & translated by , 3 October 2012 -
Neighborhood as a social fact
Reviewed: Robert Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, The University of Chicago Press, 2012
by , 26 September 2012 -
For the Love of André
About: Aragon, Lettres à André Breton (1918-1931), Gallimard
by & translated by , 19 September 2012 -
Europe at the Highest Level
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.
by & translated by , 17 September 2012 -
Energy, a Lens on World Politics
About: D. Yergin. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. Allen Lane, 2011
by , 14 September 2012 -
Serve the People
About: J. Dalarun, Gouverner, c’est servir. Essai de démocratie médiévale, Alma, 2012, 453 p.
by & translated by , 12 September 2012 -
Allies once but forever rivals
About: James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948, Norton.
by , 7 September 2012 -
The Art of Not Doing Fieldwork
About: Maurice Halbwachs, Écrits d’Amerique, EHESS.
by , 5 September 2012 -
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Explanation Explained
About: John Levi Martin, The Explanation of Social Action, Oxford University Press.
by , 30 August 2012 -
When the Check-Out Staff Checked Out
About: Marlène Benquet, Les damnés de la caisse. Grève dans un hypermarché, Éditions du croquant.
by & translated by , 6 July 2012 -
The Mid-Life Crisis of Neo-Liberalism
About: Serge Audier, Néo-libéralisme(s) – une archéologie intellectuelle, Grasset, , 2012.
by , 4 July 2012 -
Justice and Otherness
About: Corine Pelluchon, Éléments pour une éthique de la vulnérabilité, Cerf
by & translated by , 22 June 2012 -
The Ephrussi Treasure
About: Edmund De Waal, La Mémoire retrouvée, Albin Michel.
by & translated by , 15 June 2012 -
Promises, Promises
About: Hanoch Sheinman (ed.), Promises and Agreements. Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press.
by & translated by , 8 June 2012 -
Retracing the Steps of the Poor
About: Jean-François Laé & Numa Murard, Deux générations dans la débine. Enquête dans la pauvreté ouvrière, Bayard
by & translated by , 4 June 2012 -
Is It Human Nature to Be Good?
About: Vanessa Nurock, Sommes-nous naturellement moraux ? [Are we naturally moral beings?], PUF.
by & translated by , 30 May 2012
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