Survivors at the end of the world
December 21st was the 183rd end of the world in history. This is the number of end of the world events that Pierre Baron counted for Historia. Called “End of …
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Darkness, the enemy of the Enlightenment according to Foucault
Michel Foucault in an interview dating back to 1977 declares : A fear haunted the second half of the eighteenth century: it is the dark space, the screen of darkness …
VII. B. Challenges for the world at the beginning of the 21st century
→ The consumer society in question Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 Evolution of the standard of living: —diffusion of technological innovations, household products (refrigerator, washing machines), by means of …
Summary Paul Krugman – Get us out of this crisis now!
Paul Krugman, an economist born in 1953, wrote a book published in 2012 by Flammarion entitled: Sortez-nous de cette crise… maintenant ! This book report lists for each chapter the key …
The Black American Revolt
To understand the project of a popular history of the United States, intended by Howard Zinn’s historian, go here a popular history of American society after 1945. This engaged history …
The Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Affair
In this study of the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg case, you will discover why this communist couple was executed in 1953. After a brief look at the biographies of Julius …