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History Speaks Many Languages

by Anne-Julie Etter & Thomas Grillot [27-01-2012]
History cannot be written as if nations had always been around, and as if men had not found countless ways to ignore their frontiers. Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam invites his peers to make use (...)
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History

The Iberian-American Alphabet of Political Modernity

Interview with Javier Fernández Sebastián

by Gabriel Entin & Jeanne Moisand [10-06-2011]
In this interview, Javier Fernández Sebastián presents the ibero-american world as another political powerhouse for modernity during the Revolution Age, thanks to the analysis of the history of (...)
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Society

Culture of poverty and Social Resilience

An interview with Michele Lamont

by Nicolas Duvoux & Elise Tenret & Nadège Vezinat [20-05-2011]
In this interview, Michele Lamont explains different facets of her intellectual work. She comments on the cultural sociology she practices and on her urge to both understand how individuals make (...)
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History

Cutting a deal with the Mexican police

Interview with Pablo Piccato (video)

by Quentin Deluermoz & Jeanne Moisand [11-03-2011]
In the backdrop of the “war” between drug cartels and violence escalation in Mexico, the gap between the police and society is widening. Historian Pablo Piccato analyses the historical and (...)
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History

The language of the executioners and the language of the victims

Interview with Saul Friedländer & Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat

by Ivan Jablonka [29-11-2010]
As Friedländer notes in The Years of Extermination, Hitler lost the war against the Allied forces but not the one he unleashed against the Jews. Within a few years, Nazism had succeeded in (...)
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Politics

A redrawing of the Red/Blue map in November 2010?

Five questions to Andrew Gelman about the coming midterm elections

by Pauline Peretz [22-10-2010]
In the United States, the November midterm elections will most likely be a success for Republicans in Congress. Does it mean that the 2008 electoral map is already outdated? Does it definitely (...)
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History

Global France

An interview with Laurent Dubois.

by Ivan Jablonka & Silyane Larcher [08-10-2010]
In his previous research, Laurent Dubois showed how the Caribbean revolutions implemented the ideals of 1789. He now calls for rethinking the history of France thanks to the incorporation of its (...)
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History

Where have the rebels gone?

An interview with Eric Hobsbawm (video)

by Nicolas Delalande & François Jarrige [21-01-2010]
Fifty years after his pioneering books on rebellion and social banditry, Eric Hobsbawm explains why he always paid close attention to “uncommon people” and popular forms of revolt, and analyses how (...)
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Society

Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History

Lecture by Nancy Fraser (video)

by Nicolas Duvoux [25-08-2009]
In this lecture, Nancy Fraser situates the feminist’s movement in relation to three moments in the history of capitalism. First, the movement’s beginnings are located in the context of (...)
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International

Political change and democracy in China

An interview with Wang Shaoguang

by Emilie Frenkiel [15-07-2009]
Can Western political concepts accurately describe the Chinese political regime? In this interview, Wang Shaoguang defines democracy as “a combination of responsibility, responsiveness, and (...)
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