Following the demise of the Carolingian dynasty in 987 the French lords chose Hugh Capet as their king. He was the founder of a dynasty that lasted until 1328. Although for much of this time, the French kings were weak, and the kingdom of France was much smaller than it later be…
Analyse: Contient un chapitre sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau et l'autobiographie.
Tracing the development of autobiography in French, this book explores the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny, the self as textual construct, the problem of memory and the influence of other texts and…
Contrairement à la légende colportée dans les grands médias, le terme "islamophobie" n'a pas été inventé par les mollahs iraniens : il est apparu en France au début du XXe siècle, en pleine période coloniale, à une époque où s'exprimaient déjà de violents discours antimusulmans.…
This book explores the reality of the lives of North African migrants in postcolonial France, with a particular focus on their access to political entitlements such as citizenship and rights. This reality is complicated even further by complex practices of memory undertaken by F…
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the live…
Seit Marc Bloch und Ernst Kantorowicz ist vieles über die religiöse Legitimierung politischer Gewalt geschrieben worden, doch die Geschichte der Entscheidungsfindung ist von diesem Trend weitgehend unberührt geblieben. Wie aber lassen sich Einflüsse religiöser Vorstellungen auf …