"The center of the world : regional writing and the puzzles of place-time" is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to t…
La 4e de couverture indique : "How should the international community react when a government transgresses humanitarian norms and violates the human rights of its own nationals? And where does the responsibility lie to protect people from such acts of violation? In a profound ne…
Pierre Rosanvallon entwirft eine bisher noch fehlende kohärente Theorie des Populismus. Er untersucht seine Attraktivität als Lösung für gegenwärtige Probleme, entfaltet seine Geschichte und unterzieht ihn einer gründlichen Kritik. Daraus resultierend skizziert er einen Alternat…
Europe's utopias of peace: 1815, 1919, 1951
by Stråth, Bo
fromEurope's legacy in the modern world
At first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power's currency--the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan--invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How G…
"Depuis le XIXe siècle, les révolutions ont toujours affiché une prescription mémorielle : conserver le souvenir des expériences passées pour les léguer au futur. C'était une mémoire "stratégique", nourrie d'espérance. En ce début de XXIe siècle, cette dialectique entre passé et…