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Contact and Dispossession

by Juliette Tran, 14 September

About: David Andrew Nichols, Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600–1870, Ohio University Press
Dossier

The Making of Race

by The editorial team, 27 July

A Summer Selection, Part II
Recension

A Flu that Left a Hundred Million Dead

by Étienne Forestier-Peyrat, 28 May

About: Freddy Vinet, La grande grippe. 1918. La pire épidémie du siècle, Vendémiaire

Articles

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...
Interview

Cutting a deal with the Mexican police

by Quentin Deluermoz & Jeanne Moisand, 11 March 2011

Interview with Pablo Piccato
Review

Free Markets, Free Polluters

by François Jarrige, 7 March 2011

About: G. Massard-Guilbaud, Histoire de la pollution industrielle. France, 1789-1914, EHESS.
Review

The Racial Foundations of American Psychiatry

by Hervé Guillemain, 28 February 2011

About: Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis, Beacon Press Books.
Essay

The Persistence of Empires

by Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper, 14 February 2011

Empires are not necessarily the obsolete political form that the historiography likes to condemn. Jane Burbank and Frederick...
Review

Shock, What Shock?

by Martin Albrow, 7 February 2011

About: Reviewed: N. Ferguson, C. Maier, E. Manela and D. Sargent, eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, Harvard University Press, 2010
Review

The Mystery of the Terror

by Annie Jourdan, 24 January 2011

About : D. Edelstein, The Terror of Natural Right. Republicanism, the Cult of Nature and the French Revolution, University of Chicago Press.
Review

A French New Deal?

, 21 January 2011

About: P. Nord, France’s New Deal:

From the Thirties to the Postwar Era, Princeton.
Review

Absolutism and Its Judges

by Katia Weidenfeld, 10 January 2011

About: J. Krynen, L’État de justice. France (XIIIe-XXe siècle), Gallimard.
Essay

When Famine Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth

by Timothy Brook, 3 January 2011

About: C. Ó Gráda, Famine: A Short History, Princeton University Press.
Essay

Liszt and Modernity

by Martin Guerpin, 27 December 2010

About : B. Moysan, Liszt, virtuose subversif, Symétrie.
Review

The Century of the Hygienist

by Thomas Le Roux, 24 December 2010

About: G. Jorland, Une société à soigner. Hygiène et salubrité publiques en France au XIXe siècle, Gallimard.
Essay

Obesity: From Glory to Disgrace

by Thibaut de Saint Pol, 20 December 2010

About: G. Vigarello, Les Métamorphoses du gras. Histoire de l’obésité, Seuil.

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