https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Traveler-s-Ennui https://booksandideas.net/The-Traveler-s-Ennui 2025-07-23T08:00:00Z text/html en Juliette Roussin Philosophy tourism travel <p>What bitter knowledge travel brings! In fact, why travel at all? And can we inhabit the world while journeying through it?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Western-Conquest-of-the-Silk-Routes https://booksandideas.net/The-Western-Conquest-of-the-Silk-Routes 2022-06-17T08:24:20Z text/html en Claude Markovits capitalism History Colonialism trade travel <span class="caps">CASBS</span> <p>The question has long preoccupied historians studying international trade and capitalism: Why did European trading companies, above all the Dutch East India Company (<span class="caps">VOC</span>) and the English East India Company (<span class="caps">EIC</span>), dominate Eurasian trade from the 17<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century onwards?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Lost-World-of-Wood-Runners https://booksandideas.net/The-Lost-World-of-Wood-Runners 2018-12-06T07:00:00Z text/html en Paul Mapp History United States of America Colonialism anthropology West women Quebec history Native American Canada travel Books and ideas originals North America <p>“Wood runners” is the name given to travelling fur traders in the age of pioneers. Focusing on two centuries of their risky adventures and on their relationship with Amerindian populations allows Gilles Havard to write a monumental multicultural history of the early North American West.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Grand-Tourism-Educational-Journeys-in-18th-Century-Europe https://booksandideas.net/Grand-Tourism-Educational-Journeys-in-18th-Century-Europe 2018-10-29T08:00:00Z text/html en Marion Amblard Arts Enlightenment Great Britain History education Italy culture art history tourism travel Books and ideas originals <p>The Grand Tour was a journey on the European continent undertaken by 17<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> and 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup>-century British aristocrats to perfect their education. This book reveals the importance, within this trip, of a city until now overlooked by scholarship: Turin, a political and cultural crossroad.</p>