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/Capitalism-the-great-transition https://booksandideas.net/Capitalism-the-great-transition 2026-03-10T09:00:00Z text/html en Quentin Badaire capitalism History transition Cairn.info <p>Is it possible to identify the origin of the shift from feudalism to capitalism? Such a transition cannot be reduced to the expansion of trade or a linear evolution. It implies a transformation of social relations, work, and production.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Accumulation-of-Energies https://booksandideas.net/The-Accumulation-of-Energies 2025-03-11T06:30:00Z text/html en Marius Bickhardt History energy transition Science climate change Cairn.info <p>Historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz provides the first genealogical study of the concept of energy transition. In the face of discourses that keep postponing “the transition” to a later date, Fressoz takes up the unprecedented political challenge of a complete phase-out of fossil fuels.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Gender-Boundaries-Race-Boundaries https://booksandideas.net/Gender-Boundaries-Race-Boundaries 2018-07-19T07:00:00Z text/html en Sarah Mazouz Society United States of America gender race Florence Gould Foundation transition <p>In his incisive, concise and stimulating book, the sociologist Rogers Brubaker examines the reasons why, in the United States today, social acceptance of transgender situations has no equivalent in “transracial” cases.</p>