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Books & ideas

The FNAC : A Story of Standardization

About : V. Chabault, La FNAC, entre commerce et culture, Puf.

par Frédérique Leblanc [05-01-2011]
How a culturally avant-garde company gradually came little-by-little to be part of Big Business : Vincent Chabault recounts the story of the FNAC, from its Trotskyite origins to the (...)
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When Famine Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth

About : C. Ó Gráda, Famine : A Short History, Princeton University Press.

par Timothy Brook [03-01-2011]
In this historical study, Cormac Ó Gráda explains why famine is disappearing from human history. Food is now abundantly produced, consumed and distributed on a global scale and he claims that only (...)
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Challenging Family Rhythms

About : L. Lesnard, La famille désarticulée. Les nouvelles contraintes de l’emploi du temps, PUF.

par Christophe Giraud [29-12-2010]
Transformations of work disrupt family time. Relying on a rigorous statistical approach, Laurent Lesnard draws attention to the consequences produced in family life by the turmoil of atypical (...)
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Liszt and Modernity

About : B. Moysan, Liszt, virtuose subversif, Symétrie.

par Martin Guerpin [27-12-2010]
From the faubourg Saint-Germain to the concert halls in which he gave the first “recitals,” Franz Liszt helped to bring music into a new era. Heralding the end of the musical Old Regime, the (...)
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The Century of the Hygienist

About : G. Jorland, Une société à soigner. Hygiène et salubrité publiques en France au XIXe siècle, Gallimard.

par Thomas Le Roux [24-12-2010]
How did physician-chemists go about putting public hygiene on the agenda during the nineteenth century ? Constructing a panorama of their ambitions and projects, Gérard Jorland gives us a sweeping (...)
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Will the Wedding of Australia and Asia Ever Take Place ?

par Fabrice Argounes [22-12-2010]
Where will the borders of the East Asian community end up ? Australia is trying to attach itself to this evolving project but, in the eyes of its Asian partners, its western inheritance keeps it (...)
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Obesity : From Glory to Disgrace

About : G. Vigarello, Les Métamorphoses du gras. Histoire de l’obésité, Seuil.

par Thibaut de Saint Pol [20-12-2010]
From medieval disapproval of gluttony to the modern obsession with fatness, corpulence has always provoked criticism whilst also remaining in line with logics of social distinction. Georges (...)
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The Construction of Racial Identity in the United States

About : P. Schor, Compter et classer : histoire des recensements américains, EHESS.

par Daniel Sabbagh [17-12-2010]
The history of the American census is also that of the institutionalization of racial and ethnic categories. In a detailed study of the practices of classifying the U.S. population from 1790 to (...)
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Invisible constraints

Interview with Carlo Ginzburg

par Florent Brayard [15-12-2010]
Carlo Ginzburg, a historian specialising in witchcraft and popular beliefs, has produced an exceptional range of rich and powerful work. In this interview he looks back at his intellectual (...)
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