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Social sciences in the face of disorder

by Marielle Debos, 6 January 2022

About : Julien Brachet, Judith Scheele, The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara, Cambridge University Press
Dossier
Summer Reading

by The editorial team, 26 July 2021

Summer is here; Books&Ideas is off on holiday. We will be back with new publications starting August 30. In the meantime,...
Essay
Why Central Bankers Should Read Economic History

by Éric Monnet, 8 February 2021

How can economic policy-makers use economic history as a guide for their deliberations and decisions? Focusing on the case of...

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Review
Against Hereditary Rights

by Rafe Blaufarb, 21 September 2020

About: Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology, The Belknap Press, 2020
Essay
Fortunetellers and Teahouse Workers

by Di Wang, 9 April 2020

Migrant Peasants in Post-Mao Chengdu
Essay
William Thompson, a Pioneer of European Socialism

by Caroline Gomes, 5 December 2019

An Irish landowner, economist, philosopher and defender of women’s rights, William Thompson was one of the greatest Socialist...
Review
Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus at Tate Modern

by Vanina Géré, 10 October 2019

The Draughtswoman’s Contract
Books & ideas
Summertime, and Reading Is Easy

by The editorial team, 12 August 2019

A Summer Selection
Review
Injustices That Will Not Pass

by Magali Bessone, 21 February 2019

About: Catherine Lu, Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics, Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Cambridge
Review
The Lost World of Wood Runners

by Paul Mapp, 6 December 2018

About: Gilles Havard, Histoire des coureurs de bois : Amérique du Nord, 1600-1840 , Les Indes Savantes
Interview
The Ancestor Seeker

by Thomas Grillot, 6 May 2016

An Interview with Michel Brunet
Essay
The Trouble with “Truth”

by Ekaterina Pravilova, 5 November 2015

Russian Academia in the Age of (in)Certitude
Review
Anthropology and the Challenge of Cognitivism

by Gildas Salmon, 31 August 2015

About : Gérard Lenclud, L’universalisme ou le pari de la raison : anthropologie, histoire, psychologie [Universalism of the Bet of Reason: Anthropology, History, Psychology], Le Seuil.
Review
The Myth of the French Nation

by Anne-Marie Thiesse, 26 March 2015

About: Sylvain Venayre, Les Origines de la France. Quand les historiens racontaient la nation, [The Origins of France. When Historians Told the Story of the Nation] Paris, Le Seuil, 2013, 430 p.
Review
African Independence Reconsidered

by Alden Young, 8 September 2014

About: Frederick Cooper, Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State, Harvard University Press.
Dossier
History in the Making

by Cristelle Terroni, 11 August 2014

A summer selection
Essay
History and America’s Great Recession

by Adam Tooze, 25 November 2013

The American debate over the current crisis offers different attitudes towards history. Analyzing the way historical...
Review
Is debt a dangerous institution?

by Peter Hägel, 18 November 2013

About: David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years, New York, Melville House, 2011.
Review
The story of connected history

by Roland Lardinois, 18 October 2013

About: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Is Indian Civilization a Myth?, New Delhi, Permanent Black (distributed by Orient Blackswan), Raniket, 2013, 262 p.
Interview
The Impossible Asian Union

by Bernard Thomann, 20 December 2011

An Interview with François Godement
Review
Seeing Double

by Gérôme Truc, 16 September 2010

About: C. Chéroux, Diplopie, Le Point du Jour.

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