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-multiple-imaginaries-of-the-American-nation https://booksandideas.net/The-multiple-imaginaries-of-the-American-nation 2024-10-04T08:00:00Z text/html en Jules Naudet History nation 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century <span class="caps">CASBS</span> <p>Rachel St. John explores the diverse range of nation-building projects that vied for legitimacy and land across the continent during the XIXe century, illuminating the diversity of North American political history and the contingency of national growth and definition.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Paris-Commune-as-world-event https://booksandideas.net/The-Paris-Commune-as-world-event 2023-02-23T08:00:00Z text/html en Constance Bantman History revolution 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century Cairn.info <p>The Paris Commune is now a hundred and fifty years old. Quentin Deluermoz has written a global history of it, exploring its worldwide repercussions across space and time.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Republic-and-the-Witch https://booksandideas.net/The-Republic-and-the-Witch 2017-06-08T07:30:00Z text/html en Vincent Bourdeau Arts History republic 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century Florence Gould Foundation <p>In order to fix a society, it is not necessary to wield the “civilising” stick of republicanism. The novels of George Sand, far from being mere rustic tales, propose a clandestine way of doing politics – a democratic project undertaken with no preaching or violence.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Other-People https://booksandideas.net/The-Other-People 2013-12-02T08:30:00Z text/html en Chloé Gaboriaux History 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century peasantry Florence Gould Foundation <p>With the accession of Napoléon <span class="caps">III</span>, French republicans encountered an undiscovered people: rural peasants. Because these country dwellers were satisfied with the Bonapartist regime, they constituted both a theoretical and a practical challenge for the republicans. How to explain that satisfaction with such a despotic regime and how to attract this people so indifferent to republican ideals: by catering to their interests, or by educating them in republican virtues?</p>