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Michael C. Behrent

Michael Behrent is an American historian. A PhD from New York University, he now teaches in the history department of the Appalachian State University. He specializes in European intellectual history and modern France.
– His web page .

– His second blog, on French politics

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Review 〉History
Clemenceau the American

by Nicolas Barreyre, 7 February 2023

Reviewed: Patrick Weil et Thomas Macé, dir., Georges Clemenceau. Lettres d’Amérique, Passés/Composés
Review 〉International
Does the world still revolve around America?

by Serge Gruzinski, 2 February 2023

Reviewed: Ludovic Tournès, Américanisation ? Une histoire mondiale (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle), Fayard.
Review 〉Politics
The general interest of humanity

by Stéphanie Roza, 24 January 2023

Reviewed : Serge Audier, La cité écologique. Pour un éco-républicanisme, La Découverte
Review 〉Society
The Seeds of Inequality

by Georges Felouzis & Barbara Fouquet-Chauprade, 12 July 2021

About: Bernard Lahire (dir.), Enfances de classe. De l’inégalité parmi les enfants, Éditions du Seuil
Review 〉International
Drill, Gangs, and Social Media

by Clément Petitjean, 28 June 2021

About: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet : Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy, Princeton University Press
Recension 〉History
A Flu that Left a Hundred Million Dead

by Étienne Forestier-Peyrat, 28 May 2020

About: Freddy Vinet, La grande grippe. 1918. La pire épidémie du siècle, Vendémiaire
Review 〉Science
Learning from Animals

by Antoine Doré & Jérôme Michalon, 19 March 2020

About: Dominique Guillo, Les Fondements oubliés de la culture. Une approche écologique, Seuil
Review 〉History
A Different History of America

by Sébastien Jahan, 2 March 2020

About: Gilles Havard, L’Amérique fantôme. Les aventuriers francophones du Nouveau Monde, Flammarion
Recension 〉Philosophy
Well Structured Thinking

by Olivier Crasset, 18 November 2019

About: Arthur Lochmann, La vie solide. La charpente comme éthique du faire, Payot
Review 〉Economy
Inequality’s Bright Future

by Nicolas Delalande, 14 November 2019

About: Branko Milanovic, Inégalités mondiales. Le destin des classes moyennes, les ultra-riches et l’égalité des chances, La Découverte
Recension 〉Arts
Green Creators

by Juliette Bessette, 7 November 2019

About: Paul Ardenne, Un Art écologique. Création plasticienne et Anthropocène, Le Bord de l’Eau
Essay 〉Society
The Afro: More Than a Hairstyle

by Ary Gordien, 19 September 2019

Recent contentious comments on social media in France show that the hair of Afro-descendants is still stigmatized. How is one...
Interview 〉Society 〉Arts
Notre-Dame: Heritage Emotions

by Nicolas Delalande, 2 May 2019

An Interview with Nathalie Heinich
Review 〉Society
The Myth of the Wrong Body

by Olga L. Gonzalez, 15 April 2019

About: Miquel Missé, A la conquista del cuerpo equivocado, Editorial Egales
Review 〉International 〉History
The Planned Depletion of Fish Stocks

by Étienne Forestier-Peyrat, 18 March 2019

About: Carmel Finley, All the Boats on the Ocean. How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing, Chicago
Review 〉History
Naming the Crime

by Pauline Peretz, 14 February 2019

About: Annette Becker, Messagers du désastre. Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski et les génocides, Fayard
Essay 〉Economy
The Bitcoin El Dorado

by Ludovic Desmedt & Odile Lakomski-Laguerre, 27 December 2018

Conceived by its inventors as the basis of a new monetary order, Bitcoin seems to have been overtaken by finance and become the...
Review 〉Society 〉Economy
Man the Consumer

by Anne de Rugy, 20 December 2018

About: Louis Pinto, L’invention du consommateur (The Invention of the Consumer), PUF, 2018
Essay 〉Society
The color of France’s “yellow vests”

by Aurélien Delpirou, 17 December 2018

Jacquerie, revolt of the peripheries, or revenge of the working class? The initial analysis of the “yellow vest” (gilets...
Review 〉Society
Forest Resistance

by Matthieu Calame, 22 November 2018

About: Jean-Baptiste Vidalou, Être forêt. Habiter des territoires en lutte, Zones
Review 〉Society
Of Cities and Their Mores

by Denis Bocquet, 12 November 2018

About: Joseph Ben Prestel, Emotional Cities. Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo (1860-1910), Oxford University Press
Review 〉Arts
What is Literature for?

by Judith Lyon-Caen, 27 August 2018

About: Florent Coste, Explore. Investigations littéraires, Questions théoriques
Essay 〉Society
Mary Douglas, A Taste for Hierarchy

by François Buton & Eric Soriano, 9 July 2018

Though poorly known in France, the work of the anthropologist Mary Douglas is nonetheless essential for understanding the...
Review 〉History
Choosing to Pollute

by Gwenaëlle Le Goullon, 31 May 2018

About: F. Jarrige & T. Le Roux, La contamination du monde. Une histoire des pollutions à l’âge industriel, Seuil
Review 〉History
Facing the Question

by Arnaud Fossier, 24 May 2018

About: Faustine Harang, La Torture au Moyen Âge (Parlement de Paris, XIVe-XVe siècles), PUF
Review 〉Philosophy
Psychological War

by Claire Pagès, 12 March 2018

About: Samuel Lézé, Freud Wars. Un siècle de scandales, PUF
Review 〉Society
Extraordinary Men

by Nicolas Duvoux, 26 February 2018

About: Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, Lucy Bernholz (eds.), Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values, The University of Chicago Press
Review 〉Society
The Working Classes in Contemporary France

by Pierre Gilbert, 19 October 2017

About: Yasmine Siblot, Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet and Nicolas Renahy, Sociologie des classes populaires contemporaines, Armand Colin.
Essay 〉Arts 〉Philosophy
Umberto Eco

by Claudia Stancati, 25 September 2017

The Philosopher of Signs
Essay 〉Society 〉Economy
Basic Incomes

by Clément Cadoret, 28 August 2017

No more magical thinking
Review 〉Philosophy
The City of Tears

by Christophe Litwin, 22 May 2017

About: Michaël Fœssel, Le Temps de la consolation, Seuil
Essay 〉Economy
Economics: An Experimental Science?

by Sylvie Thoron, 27 March 2017

In economics, the study of behavior has been enriched by a productive dialogue between theory and experiments. Challenging the...
Essay 〉Economy
Learning from Randomized Controlled Experiments

by Agnès Labrousse, 23 January 2017

The Narrative of Scientificity, Practical Complications, Historical Experience
Review 〉Politics 〉Economy 〉International
The Great Climate Change Market

by Lucile Maertens, 5 January 2017

About: Romain Felli, La grande adaptation. Climat, capitalisme et catastrophe, Seuil.
Review 〉History
The Colonial Margins of Citizenship

by Samuel Hayat, 19 December 2016

About: Silyane Larcher, L’autre citoyen. L’idéal républicain et les Antilles après l’esclavage (The Other Citizen: The Republican Ideal and the Caribbean after Slavery), Armand Colin.
Review 〉Economy
The General Interest

by Philippe Steiner, 5 December 2016

About: Jean Tirole, Économie du bien commun, Presses Universitaires de France.
Essay 〉Society 〉International 〉Philosophy
The Culture of Qi

by Marceau Chenault, 21 November 2016

A Chinese or a Universal One?
Review 〉Politics
What is a Realist?

by Florian Louis, 27 October 2016

About: John Bew, Realpolitik: A History, Oxford University Press; Olivier Zajec, Nicholas John Spykman. L’invention de la géopolitique américaine, Presse de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne.
Review 〉History
The Kamasutra and its Audiences

by Denis Matringe, 15 September 2016

About: Wendy Doniger, The Mare’s Trap: Nature and Culture in the Kamasutra, Speaking Tiger.
Review 〉Politics 〉Economy
Wealth for All?

by Jérôme Gautié, 8 September 2016

About: Philippe Askenazy, Tous rentiers! Pour une autre répartition des richesses Odile Jacob.

Translations on La Vie des idées

Essai 〉Société
La politique de la ville en France et en Grande-Bretagne

par Renaud Epstein, le 4 juin 2013

Bilan décennal

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