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Tzvetan Todorov, Auteur ; Catherine Porter, Traducteur | Cambridge : Harvard University Press | 1993How can we think about people and cultures unlike our own? In the early modern period, the fact of human diversity presented Europeans with little cause for anxiety: they simply assumed the superiority of the West. During the 18th century this v[...]texte imprimé
A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in p[...]texte imprimé
In 1323, the first book to treat Paris exclusively appeared; the number since then has grown to about 10,000, notes Higonnet, a professor of French history at Harvard who seems to have read them all before adding this original and illuminating w[...]texte imprimé
Roger Chartier, Éditeur scientifique ; Arthur Goldhammer, Traducteur | Cambridge : Harvard University Press | 1989texte imprimé
Chronicling one of the greatest and most popular national cinemas, Republic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895―the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in Paris―to the present day. Alan Williams offers a unique synt[...]texte imprimé
Georges Duby, Éditeur scientifique ; Arthur Goldhammer, Traducteur | Cambridge : Harvard University Press | 1987The second volume of "A History of Private Life" contains much rich and colourful detail culled from a considerable variety of sources. This "secret epic" aims to construct a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in different places in the[...]texte imprimé
Antoine Prost, Éditeur scientifique ; Philippe Ariès, Metteur en scène, réalisateur ; Georges Duby, Metteur en scène, réalisateur ; Arthur Goldhammer, Traducteur | Cambridge : Harvard University Press | 1991This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, p[...]texte imprimé
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Lamont (sociology, Princeton) provides a fascinating look at the way working-class American and French men make sense of their world. Interviews with white and black American workingmen highlight their common commitment to doing their jobs well [...]texte imprimé
As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishments known as “restaurateurs’ rooms” to sip bouillons.texte imprimé
A challenge to conventional wisdom about modern French history, this book poses broader questions about the role of anti-bourgeois sentiment in French culture by suggesting parallels between the figures of the bourgeois, the Jew, and the America[...]texte imprimé
What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vac[...]texte imprimé
France in the mid-nineteenth century was shaken by a surge of civic activism, the "resurrection of civil society." But unlike similar developments throughout Europe, this civic mobilization culminated in the establishment of democratic institutionstexte imprimé
The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from eco[...]texte imprimé
This book offers a new interpretation of the transformation of French economic policymaking and state-society relations over the past twenty-five years. In so doing, it challenges widely held views about the preconditions for state leadership an[...]