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The Western Conquest of the Silk Routes

by Claude Markovits, 17 June

About : Ron Harris, Going the distance : Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700, Princeton & Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019
Essay
Operation Pied Piper: Britain’s Forgotten War Children

by Marilyn Johnston, 23 December 2021

On the eve of the Second World War, more than a million British children were evacuated to the countryside for their...
Interview
In Magellan’s Wake

by Ivan Jablonka, 27 October 2021

An Interview with Romain Bertrand

Articles

Review
Fashion, Soviet Style?

by Julie Hessler, 17 October 2012

About: Larissa Zakharova, S’habiller à la soviétique. La mode et le Dégel en URSS, Paris, 2011
Review
Serve the People

by Corinne Peneau, 12 September 2012

About: J. Dalarun, Gouverner, c’est servir. Essai de démocratie médiévale, Alma, 2012, 453 p.
Review
Allies once but forever rivals

by Myriam Yakoubi, 7 September 2012

About: James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948, Norton.
Review
The Art of Not Doing Fieldwork

by Howard S. Becker, 5 September 2012

About: Maurice Halbwachs, Écrits d’Amerique, EHESS.
Dossier
Thinking Global

by Thomas Grillot, 19 August 2012

Historians, sociologists, and social scientists in general have long tried to “think big” and “global.” The rise of Asia in the...
Review
The Ephrussi Treasure

by Ivan Jablonka, 15 June 2012

About: Edmund De Waal, La Mémoire retrouvée, Albin Michel.
Essay
The Slow Triumph of the Majority

by Olivier Christin, 11 June 2012

How do you renounce unanimity to embrace the majority principle? How do you ward off the dissastisfaction of a minority...
Review
Dutchmen and Javanese: Connected History

by Philippe Minard, 19 May 2012

About: Romain Bertrand, L’Histoire à parts égales, Seuil.
Review
A So-Called Silence

by Simon Perego, 4 May 2012

About: Hasia R. Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love. American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962, New York University Press.
Review
The Soviet Union: A Shaky Welfare State

by Grégory Dufaud, 10 April 2012

About: Dorena Caroli, Histoire de la protection sociale en Union soviétique (1917-1939), L’Harmattan.
Review
Hunts for Jews and Golden Harvest

by Audrey Kichelewski, 30 March 2012

New research on the Holocaust in Poland
Interview
Small States, Big Credit?

by Stéphanie Novak & Will Slauter, 29 March 2012

An interview with David Stasavage
Interview
The Greek State: Its Past and Future

by Nicolas Delalande, 20 March 2012

An interview with Anastassios Anastassiadis
Review
The End of Empire and the Transnational System

by Julia Clancy-Smith, 15 March 2012

About: Matthew Connelly, L’Arme secrète du FLN: Comment de Gaulle a perdu la guerre d’Algérie,Payot.
Review
The 993^rd Man

by Ivan Jablonka, 9 March 2012

About: N. Mariot & C. Zalc, Face à la persécution. 991 Juifs dans la guerre, Odile Jacob.
Essay
China: Back to the Imperial Sense of the State

by Pierre-Etienne Will, 17 February 2012

Historian Pierre-Etienne Will decodes the current official reevaluation in China of some Qing dynasty officials as great...
Review
Masses Taking Over The Square

by Kirill Postoutenko, 2 February 2012

About: Malte Rolf, Soviet Mass Festivals, ROSSPEN.
Interview
History Speaks Many Languages

by Anne-Julie Etter & Thomas Grillot, 27 January 2012

An interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Essay
Protectionism as Internationalist Liberalism

by David Todd, 17 January 2012

Birth and Spread, 1789-1914
Review
Concepts in Life: Reflections on Writing History

by Cesare Cuttica, 10 January 2012

About: J. F. Sebastián (ed.), Political Concepts and Time, Cantabria University Press, 2011.
Interview
The American State: Power Obscured

by Thomas Grillot & Pauline Peretz, 15 November 2011

An Interview with William Novak & James Sparrow
Review
Political Education in the Soviet Union

by Alexandre Sumpf, 3 November 2011

About: Jeffrey Brooks, « Peasants into Bolsheviks? », Books and Ideas.
Review
A Very Lively Desert

by Alden Young, 19 October 2011

About: G. Lydon. On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. , Cambridge.
Review
Narrating the World

by Jacques Revel, 17 October 2011

About: J. Goody, Le Vol de l’histoire. Comment l’Europe a imposé le récit de son passé au reste du monde, Gallimard.
Review
Bury and let die

by Anna Lawton, 12 October 2011

Reviewed: M. Godet, La pellicule et les ciseaux. La censure dans le cinéma soviétique du Dégel à la perestroika, CNRS éditions.
Review
Get Yourself Into Debt!

by Nicolas Delalande, 4 October 2011

About: L. Hyman, Debtor Nation. The History of America in Red Ink, Princeton University Press.
Essay
Native Americans, America’s Colonial Troops

by Thomas Grillot, 28 September 2011

Native Americans have been touted as the quintessential American patriots. Their war record in the 20th century certainly...
Essay
Protectionism and the Birth of Catalanism

by Jeanne Moisand, 16 September 2011

Critics of Catalanism often reduce the movement to a reaction based on economic and fiscal selfishness. Jeanne Moisand shows...
Review
Peasants into Bolsheviks?

by Jeffrey Brooks, 14 September 2011

About: A. Sumpf, Bolcheviks en campagne. Paysans et éducation politique dans la Russie des années 1920, CNRS.
Essay
Beaches in the City

by Elsa Devienne, 6 July 2011

The Quest for the Ideal Urban Beach in Postwar Los Angeles
Interview
The Iberian-American Alphabet of Political Modernity

by Gabriel Entin & Jeanne Moisand, 10 June 2011

Interview with Javier Fernández Sebastián
Essay
Sprouts of Democracy in Chinese History

by Pierre-Etienne Will, 30 May 2011

In this article derived from a conference given at Princeton University in November 2008, Pierre-Etienne Will discards...
Essay
The Lessons of Disasters

by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 27 May 2011

A Historical Critique of Postmodern Optimism
Review
Opium in Republican China

by David Serfass, 16 May 2011

About: X. Paulès, Histoire d’une drogue en sursis. L’opium à Canton, 1906-1936, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2010
Essay
Is a History of Trust Possible?

by Nicolas Delalande, 13 April 2011

Remarks on the Historic Imagination of Two Economists
Review
The Story Behind the Sneer

by Julian Wright, 30 March 2011

About: R. Ducoulombier, Camarades! La naissance du Parti Communiste en France, Perrin.
Review
A Dead Poet’s Society

by Henning Trüper, 28 March 2011

About: U. Raulff, Kreis ohne Meister. Stefan Georges Nachleben, Beck
Review
Testing Biopolitics against World Population Growth

by Paul-André Rosental, 21 March 2011

About: M. Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, Harvard University Press, 2008.
Review
Rwanda: The Steps to Genocide

by Claudine Vidal, 16 March 2011

About: A. Guichaoua, Rwanda, de la guerre au génocide. Les politiques criminelles au Rwanda (1990-1994)(Rwanda: From War to Genocide. Criminal Policies in Rwanda, 1990-1994) , La Découverte.
Essay
France Against Its Gypsies

by Emmanuel Filhol, 14 March 2011

Every year the public authorities wait until the end of the school year to expel France’s Gypsies. Emmanuel Filhol shows us...

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