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-View-from-Java https://booksandideas.net/The-View-from-Java 2012-05-19T14:17:34Z text/html en Philippe Minard History culture trade Netherlands Institut français Malaysia <p>By reconstructing the historical circumstances in which the first contacts between the Dutch, the Malays, and the Javanese occurred at the turn of the seventeenth century, Romain Bertrand offers us a field-defining study, while also demonstrating the heuristic utility of “connected history.” At a time of intellectual timidity and spineless caution, Bertrand's book brings a breath of fresh air to the discipline of history.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-French-Social-Welfare-Model-as https://booksandideas.net/The-French-Social-Welfare-Model-as 2011-01-26T09:22:49Z text/html en Antoine Bevort International France labour solidarity precarity pensions redistribution social dialogue <span class="caps">FMSH</span> Netherlands international comparisons <p>For the Dutch, the French social model seems particularly generous. However, no real comparison is possible if the facts are taken out of context. The understanding of the Dutch proverb ‘To live like God in France' changes somewhat when we consider Antoine Bevort's investigation of the differences between social relations in France and in the Netherlands.</p>