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-Poor-of-the-Ancien-Regime https://booksandideas.net/The-Poor-of-the-Ancien-Regime 2024-11-07T08:52:00Z text/html en Jean-François Laé History poverty solidarity precarity 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century Cairn.info <p>Under the <i>Ancien Régime</i>, salaries were not enough to live on. Many people had to combine activities to make ends meet. Laurence Fontaine paints a vivid picture of this reality.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Doomed-to-Fail https://booksandideas.net/Doomed-to-Fail 2015-10-26T08:00:00Z text/html en Mélanie Cournil Colonialism nationalism 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century Scotland <p>In a bold move to assert its economic independence from England, Scotland attempted to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama at the end of the 17<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century. This essay explains why the failure of that colonial scheme is still vivid in the memory of Anglo-Scottish relations that was reopened during the referendum on Scottish independence in September 2014</p>