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/Digging-Up-Cataclysms https://booksandideas.net/Digging-Up-Cataclysms 2024-11-14T07:32:01Z text/html en Boris Valentin History historiography world war massacre archeology Cairn.info <p>A new archaeology has emerged whose contributions to our understanding of twentieth-century mass violence oscillate between history and memory. A specialist in the field provides an impressive overview that sounds very much like a plea.</p> https://booksandideas.net/New-Light-on-a-Colonial-Massacre https://booksandideas.net/New-Light-on-a-Colonial-Massacre 2012-04-24T09:18:03Z text/html en Muriel Cohen Politics France Colonialism Algeria police massacre Florence Gould Foundation <p>A recent book and two documentaries shed new light on the repression of the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. By looking at these events in their long-term context, they show that the repression was not some sort of blunder. It was a “colonial massacre” perpetrated by the Paris police acting under the orders of their Prefect (Commissioner), the infamous Maurice Papon.</p>