"La croissance économique est la religion du monde moderne. Elle est l'élixir qui apaise les conflits, la promesse du progrès indéfini. Elle offre une solution au drame ordinaire de la vie humaine qui est de vouloir ce qu'on n'a pas. Hélas, en Occident du moins, la croissance es…
"La croissance économique est la religion du monde moderne. Elle est l'élixir qui apaise les conflits, la promesse du progrès indéfini. Elle offre une solution au drame ordinaire de la vie humaine qui est de vouloir ce qu'on n'a pas. Hélas, en Occident du moins, la croissance es…
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples …
"Farm and business lobby groups played a vital role in the erosion of the American-led trade embargo against China from 1949 to 1979. In this comprehensive study, based on recently declassified primary source material, trade negotiations and agreements are examined and a detaile…
"Edward Said's Orientalism not only inaugurated a new and highly controversial arena of discourse but also set the terms of debate around knowledge, power, and imperialism since 1978, when the book first appeared. The substance of discussions remains extensively political, limit…
The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping away as China, India, Brazil…
