On linguistic imperialism

English, a new world language, dominates after French in XVIIIe century. As a sociologist, Pascale Casanova shows that the use

1498 or the other “New World”

From XVIe century, Europe and India begin to trade. Their connected history comes in various forms, including the cultivation of

Jewish social sciences

From the Jewish Scientific Institute (YIVO), founded in 1925, to the collection of books “ Polish Jewishness », created after

Another Zola

It is customary to say that naturalist novels strive to decipher the world. An iconoclastic thesis supports the opposite: Zola

Céline in her legends

A careful historical investigation reveals the freedoms that the author of Journey to the end of the night took from

From daguerreotype to digital

By studying the mutations of photography since its origins, we realize that, contrary to what we often believe, it exalts

Attacking Francoism

In recent years, a new generation of Spanish historians has debunked the old myths forged by Franco’s propaganda, but also

Philosophy in the garage

Prisoners of small, comfortable individual bubbles, we no longer act, we consume pre-arranged choices. Matthew Crawford, philosopher and mechanic, explains