Istanbul Excess
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party, theAKPmake the “new Istanbul” the showcase of their political project: that of rebuilding Turkey
Ottoman Worlds
The Ottoman Empire was, for almost 7 centuries, a whole that was both united and diverse. This new Dictionary of
Green currency
Socially responsible investment, green bonds, extra-financial rating agencies: in recent years, “climate finance” has been developing. Without the involvement of
Bad books
What works did Enlightenment readers appreciate? Do some of those they condemned for aesthetic or moral reasons deserve to be
All the music of the Arab world
How to present fifteen centuries of Arabic music to the French public while avoiding the pitfall of orientalism? The first
Here comes summer
La Vie des Idées is on vacation. We will resume our publications on Monday, August 27. In the meantime, here
The uchronics
Counterfactual history is written with ifs. What if the Allies had lost World War II? What if there had been
Recognition of workers’ diseases
A sociological survey of the glassworkers of Givors reveals the difficulty in having occupational diseases recognized. It was only through
What history for Europe?
Designed to offer a “new history of Europe”, the collective book edited by Denis Crouzet disappoints. How are historians of
Photographic protests
The photographers of Provoke, a short-lived magazine that shook the Japanese art scene in 1968, wanted to “provoke thought” and