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    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2021

      Political History of the 19th century

      by Nicolas Delalande, Blaise Truong-Loï

      It would be wrong to consider the 19th century as distant or over. In many aspects, such as the intense politicization of European societies, the diversity of mobilization and protest practices, ideological and cultural inventiveness, and critical reflection on modernity and progress, this period is a laboratory rich in experience and lessons. Restoring the great political dynamics and tensions that run through it allows us not only to better understand the forms of historical change, but also to find one's bearings in an uncertain present. By placing the imperial expansion of Europe in the context of the globalization of the time and its interactions with America, Africa and Asia, Nicolas Delalande and Blaise Truong-Loï propose a history of the 19th century that is neither homogeneous nor self-centered, but profoundly renewed by the contributions of the most recent research in history and social sciences.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2020

      Land, Power and Conflict - 2nd edition

      An Agro-History of the World

      by Pierre Blanc

      The land provides resources and confers power on those who appropriate them. Our societies have constantly fought to control these resources, through conquests, civil wars, authoritarianisms, etc. How many bloody passages of political history have played out against a backdrop of contested land distribution? How many countries have expressed their desire for domination and security through territorial control? How many peoples have seen their land stolen, and with it their dreams of recognition?

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2019

      The Nuremberg Moment

      The International Trial, the Lawyers and the Question of Race

      by Guillaume Mouralis

      This book provides a new reading of the Nuremberg trial based on a study of the lawyers who laid its foundations and guided the debates in the USA. It reveals the cluster of professional, social and cultural constraints that weighed heavily on this experimental moment. It also questions the legacy of Nuremberg during the Afro-American civil rights movement or in the anti-Vietnam war movement, and how these militant appropriations have influenced the emergence of an international legal framework

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2019

      White Lead

      History of a Legal Poison

      by Judith Rainhorn

      There is not a single area of everyday life that is free from suspected or confirmed poisons - asbestos, pesticides, phlalates, etc.- carcinogens or endocrine disruptors. To understand the reasons for our collective acceptance of this situation, this book investigates the history of white lead and the social, industrial, scientific and political rationales that have imposed their rhythms and requirements, making it – for centuries - a legal poison.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      September 2020

      The Transformations of Forced Labor

      by Alessandro Stanziani

      From the philosophers of the Enlightenment, to the evolution of the law and the reality of working conditions, Stanziani’s global approach shows that the history of forced labor can only be understood through its relationship with free labor. These two spheres constantly overlap and interact to construct a single unfinished history, that of an ongoing struggle for emancipation.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2020

      “And the Bulgarian Jews were saved…”

      by Nadège Ragaru

      Bulgaria was an exception; a state allied with the Reich that refused to deport its Jewish community. This image of Bulgaria during WWII has persisted until the present day, overlooking the fact that in the Yugoslavian and Greek territories occupied by this country between 1941 and 1945, almost all the Jews were rounded up, sent to Poland, and exterminated. Deeply original in its approach and in its style, this historical investigation is an exemplary reflection on the silences of the past.

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