Dominique Kalifa (1957–2020) was professor of history and director of the Center for Nineteenth-Century History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne. His books include The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond (Columbia, 2021).Sarah Maza is Jane Long Professor in the Arts and Sciences and professor of history at Northwestern University.
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Dominique Kalifa: Vice, Crime, and Poverty
Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld …
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Frederic Bozo & Susan Emanuel: Two Strategies for Europe
This timely book explores the often stormy French-U.S. relationship and the evolution of the Atlantic Alliance under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1958D1969). The first work on this subject to …
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Daniel Cohen: Homo Economicus
The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness. In this wide- …
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Daniel Cohen: Homo Economicus
The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness. In this wide- …
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Frederique Ait-Touati: Fictions of the Cosmos
In today’s academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the …
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Marie-Pierre Rey: Alexander I
Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his …
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Catherine Collomp: Rescue, Relief, and Resistance
How American labor leaders came to the rescue of political and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Rescue, Relief, and Resistance: The Jewish Labor Committee’s Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934 1945 is the …
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Dominique Kalifa: The Belle Époque
The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture—the “Belle Époque.” The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains emblematic of what …
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Daniel Cohen: Prosperity of Vice
How violence, rather than peace, has historically accompanied prosperity; and why emerging nations seem poised to repeat the tragic history of the industrialized world.What happened yesterday in the …
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Efthymios Nicolaidis: Science and Eastern Orthodoxy
People have pondered conflicts between science and religion since at least the time of Christ. The millennia-long debate is well documented in the literature in the history and philosophy of science …
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Aline Kiner: The Mirror of Simple Souls
A captivating story of love, jealousy and faith, set amid a community of independent women in Medieval Paris A heretical text, a vengeful husband, a forbidden love… It’s 1310 and Paris is alive wit …
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