Popes and the Church
We remember Stalin’s brutal question: “ The Pope, how many divisions ? “. He wondered what power the Catholic Church
An anthropology of singular beings
The anthropologist Albert Piette aims to implement a unique science. Against all forms of relationism » which reduce men to
National identity in the colonial laboratory
National, first, imperial, then ? What if we had thought the history of France backwards ? A detour through the
The first great civil war
A historian returns, through compassionate history, to a little-known episode: the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864), the greatest civil war in the
Financial crises and banking regulation: a history
Eugene White, one of the most important financial historians in the United States, explains how history can contribute to current
Madrid or “capitalidad”
A dynamic European metropolis, Madrid was very marked by the economic crisis of 2007. The historian Bartolomé Bennassar looks back
From one class to another
How can we think about individual upward trajectories ? How to understand the transition from one class to another ?
In the footsteps of the Saharan Jews
In colonial Algeria, the Jews of Mzab formed a “ native » distinct not only from the local Muslim community,
Democracy being made
The crisis of democracy affects every modern society. On the other hand, new politicization practices vary depending on the historical
The trajectories of the diaspora
Victim of his success at university and his political recovery, the term “ diaspora » has gradually lost its power