Books & ideas

A History of Canicide

Jean-Luc Laffont — 2025-07-08T07:00:00Z

The mass slaughters of dogs carried out in Mexico and Europe in the 19^th century seem to have been a rehearsal for the human holocausts of the 20^th century.

The great circle of philosophy

Alfio Nazareno Rizzo — 2024-06-25T15:17:55Z

In a book that is learned and ambitious as well as accessible, Vincent Citot compares the philosophies of eight different civilizations to understand their cyclical evolution from a religious to a scientific stage.

King Coal

Louis Fagon — 2023-11-07T09:00:00Z

Coal is not just a raw material: it is also a symbol and a commodity whose history Charles-François Mathis has retraced over a period spanning two centuries.

The Hybridization of Europe and the Muslim World

Dominique Avon — 2013-09-26T08:00:00Z

In this monumental work, three historians study the political, military, cultural and economic interactions between Europe and the Muslim world over the past millennium and a half. One of the original sides to their approach is that they don't confine themselves to the religious divide, which enables them to refute the theory of an inevitable clash between the European and Arab Muslim worlds.