Michael Behrent
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Book reviews written by the author
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The I and the self
Reviewed: Pierre Guenancia, L’homme sans moi. Essai sur l’identité (Man without Self: An Essay on Identity), Paris, Puf, 368 p., 26 €.
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The decolonial continent
Reviewed: Philippe Colin, Lissell Quiroz, Pensées décoloniales. Une introduction aux théories critiques d’Amérique latine (Decolonial Thoughts: An Introduction to Latin American Critical Theories), Paris, La Découverte, 2023, 240 p., 20, 50 €.
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The Holy Roman Empire and colonization
Reviewed: Indravati Félicité, Le Saint-Empire face au monde. Contestations et redéfinitions de l’impérialité, XVe-XIXe siècle (The Holy Roman Empire Before the World: Contestations and Redefinitions of Imperiality from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century) CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2024, 456 p., 27 €.
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The Volga and Russian geopolitics
Reviewed: Pascal Marchand, Volga, l’héritage de la modernité (Volga: The Legacy of Modernity) Paris, Éditions du CNRS, 2023, 256 p., 23 €.
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A War of Signs
Reviewed: Jérémie Foa, Survivre. Une histoire des guerres de Religion (Survive: A History of the Wars of Religion), Paris, Seuil, 2024, 352 p., 23 €.
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Marx and the history of nature
Reviewed: Frédéric Monferrand, La nature du capital. Politique et ontologie chez le jeune Marx (The Nature of Capital: Politics and Ontology in the Young Marx), Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2024, 320 p., 22 €.
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Race and the Raepublic
Reviewed: Stéphanie Soubrier, Races guerrières. Enquête sur une catégorie impériale (1850-1918) (Martial Races: A Study of an Imperial Category (1850-1918)), Paris, CNRS Editions, 2023, 448 p., 26 €.
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Capitalism and injustice
Reviewed : Emmanuel Renault Abolir l’exploitation (Abolishing Exploitation), Paris, La Découverte, 2023, 324 p., 23 €.
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Airs of empire
Reviewed: Bruno Dumézil, L’Empire mérovingien, Ve-VIIIe siècle (The Merovingian Empire: From the Fifth to the Eighth Centuries), Paris, Passés composés, 2023, 352 p., 23 €.
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Medieval emotions
Reviewed: Régine Le Jan, Amis ou ennemis? Émotions, relations, identités au Moyen Âge (Friends or enemies? Emotions, relationships, and identities during the Middle Ages), Paris, Seuil, collection "L’Univers historique ," 2024, 528 p. and 8 pl., 27,50 €.
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Italy before Italy
Reviewed: Jean Boutier, Sandro Landi, and Jean-Claude Waquet, eds., Le temps des Italies. XIIe-XIXe siècle (The Time of Italies: The Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries), Paris, École Française de Rome, Passés/Composés, 2023, 756 p., 29€.
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Portugal’s revolution
Reviewed: Victor Pereira, C’est le peuple qui commande. La révolution des Œillets 1974-1976 (The People Rules: The Carnation Revolution, 1974-1976), Bordeaux, Éditions du Détour, 2024, 280 p., 21€90.
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The unknown slave
Reviewed: Paulin Ismard, Le Miroir d’Œdipe. Penser l’esclavage (Oedipus' Mirror: Thinking Slavery), Paris, Seuil, 2023, 224 p., 23 €.
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The Earth Mother vs. God the Father
About : Émilie Hache, De la génération. Enquête sur sa disparition et son remplacement par la production (On Generation: A Study of its Disappearance and Replacement by Production) Paris, Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2024, 312 p., 21 €.
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An awareness of danger
Reviewed: Jérémy Guedj, Les Juifs français et le nazisme, 1933-1939 L’Histoire renversée. (French Jews and Nazism, 1933-1939: History Upended). Paris, Puf, 2024, 371 p., 22 €.
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Urban vendettas
Reviewed: Marwan Mohammed, “Y’a embrouille.” Sociologie des rivalités de quartier (“There’s Trouble”: Sociology of Neighborhood Rivalries), Paris, Stock, 2023, 373 p., 20,90€.
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Discrimination as a “test”
Reviewed: Mickaëlle Provost, L’expérience de l’oppression. Une phénoménologie du sexisme et du racisme (The experience of oppression: A phenomenology of sexism and racism), Paris, PUF, 2023, 344 p., 24 €.
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Does one choose to be sick?
Reviewed: Paul-Loup Weil-Dubuc, L’injustice des inégalités sociales de santé (The Injustice of Health-Related Social Inequality), Paris, Hygée Éditions, 2023, 178 p., 20 €.
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In the time of disaster
Reviewed: Laurent Coumel, 24 heures de la vie à Tchernobyl (24 hours in the life of Chernobyl), Paris, Puf, 2024, 200 p., 16 €.
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For a sustainable architecture
Reviewed: Philippe Simay, Bâtir avec ce qui reste : quelles ressources pour sortir de l’extractivisme ? (Building with What Remains: What Resources Can Get Us Out of Extractivism?), Saint-Mandé, Éditions Terre urbaine, 2024, 133 p., 17€.
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The elusive doctrine
Reviewed: Sebastian Roché and François Rabaté, La police contre la rue (The police vs. the street), Grasset, 2023, 320 p., 22 €.
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Ecology: A class struggle
Reviewed: Jean-Baptiste Comby, Ecolos, mais pas trop… Les classes sociales face à l’enjeu environnemental (Ecological but not too much … Social classes and environmentalism), Paris, Raisons d’Agir, 2024, 192 p., 14 €.
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In the patient queue
Reviewed: Maud Gelly, Les Politiques du tri. D’une épidémie à l’autre (SIDA, COVID) (The Politics of Selection: From One Epidemic to Anotherr [AIDS, Covid]). Le Croquant, 2024, 256 p., 20 €.
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Virtuoso Fasting
Reviewed: Isabelle Jonveaux, Une culture de la satiété. Enquête sociologique sur le jeûne comme expérience spirituelle (A Culture of Satisfaction: A Sociological Study of Fasting as Spiritual Experience), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024, 228 p.
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Abortion under the Old Regime
Reviewed: Laura Tatoueix, Défaire son fruit. Une histoire sociale de l’avortement en France à l’époque moderne (Unmaking one's fruit: A social history of abortion in France during the early modern period), Paris, éditions de l’EHESS, coll. En temps & lieux, 2024, 392 p., 22,80 euros
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A pope’s silence
Reviewed: Nina Valbousquet, Les âmes tièdes. Le Vatican face à la Holocaust (Tepid souls: The Vatican confronts the Holocaust), Paris, La Découverte, 2024, 480 p., 26 €
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A Critique of TV Series
Reviewed: Bertrand Cochard, Vide à la demande. Critique des séries (Emptiness on Demand: A Critique of TV Series), Paris, L’Échappée, 2024, 171 p., 17 €.
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The Many Voices of Civil Rights
Reviewed: Olivier Mahéo, De Rosa Parks au Black Power: Une histoire Populaire des mouvements noirs, 1945-1970 (From Rosa Parks to Black Power: A people’s history of Black movements, 1945-1970), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024, 286 p., 24 €, ISBN 9782753597624
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Where do our clothes go?
Reviewed: Emmanuelle Durand, L’envers des fripes. Les vêtements dans les plis de la mondialisation (The other side of fripes: Clothes in globalization's "folds"), Paris, Premier Parallèle, 2024, 168 p., 9, 50 €, ISBN 9782850612114
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A hard right turn?
Reviewed: Vincent Tiberj, La droitisation française. Mythe et réalités (France’s rightward turn: myths and realities), Paris, PUF, 2024, 335 p., 15 €, ISBN 9782130837954
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Unrepresentative images
Reviewed: Jean-Claude Schmitt, Les Images médiévales. La figure et le corps (Medieval images. Figures and bodies), Paris, Gallimard, 2023, 368 p., 29, 50 €.
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Can social cohesion be measured?
Reviewed: Sandra Hoibian, La mosaïque française. Comment (re)faire société aujourd’hui? (The French mosaic: How to (re)make society today?). Paris, Flammarion, 2024, 260 p., 21 €, ISBN 9782080456533.
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Marilyn Monroe does not exist
Reviewed: Christine van Geen, Allumeuse. Genèse d’un mythe (The “Tease”: Genesis of a Myth), Paris, Seuil, 2024, 192 pp., €20, ISBN 9782021544053
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