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Affiche du document Autobiography of Giambattista Vico — Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher''s intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the development of concepts central to his mature work. Beyond its relevance to the development of the New Science, the Autobiography is also of interest for the light it sheds on Italian culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Still regarded by many as the best English-language translation of this classic work, the Cornell edition was widely lauded when first published in 1944. Wrote the Saturday Review of Literature: "Here was something new in the art of self-revelation. Vico wrote of his childhood, the psychological influences to which he was subjected, the social conditions under which he grew up and received an education and evolved his own way of thinking. It was so outstanding a piece of work that it was held up as a model, which it still is."

Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher''s intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the development of concepts central to his mature work. Beyond its relevance to the development of the New Science, the Autobiography is also of interest for the light it sheds on Italian culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Still regarded by many as the best English-language translation of this classic work, the Cornell edition was widely lauded when first published in 1944. Wrote the Saturday Review of Literature: "Here was something new in the art of self-revelation. Vico wrote of his childhood, the psychological influences to which he was subjected, the social conditions under which he grew up and received an education and evolved his own way of thinking. It was so outstanding a piece of work that it was held up as a model, which it still is."

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Affiche du document John Dewey and American Democracy — John Dewey and American Democracy
B. Westbrook Robert
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Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction that "democracy is freedom" but also to realize his democratic ideals through political activism. Widely considered modern America''s most important philosopher, Dewey made his views known both through his writings and through such controversial episodes as his leadership of educational reform at the turn of the century; his support of American intervention in World War I and his leading role in the Outlawry of War movement after the war; and his participation in both radical and anti-communist politics in the 1930s and 40s. Robert B. Westbrook reconstructs the evolution of Dewey''s thought and practice in this masterful intellectual biography, combining readings of his major works with an engaging account of key chapters in his activism. Westbrook pays particular attention to the impact upon Dewey of conversations and debates with contemporaries from William James and Reinhold Niebuhr to Jane Addams and Leon Trotsky. Countering prevailing interpretations of Dewey''s contribution to the ideology of American liberalism, he discovers a more unorthodox Dewey—a deviant within the liberal community who was steadily radicalized by his profound faith in participatory democracy. Anyone concerned with the nature of democracy and the future of liberalism in America—including educators, moral and social philosophers, social scientists, political theorists, and intellectual and cultural historians—will find John Dewey and American Democracy indispensable reading.

John Dewey and American Democracy
B. Westbrook Robert
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Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction that "democracy is freedom" but also to realize his democratic ideals through political activism. Widely considered modern America''s most important philosopher, Dewey made his views known both through his writings and through such controversial episodes as his leadership of educational reform at the turn of the century; his support of American intervention in World War I and his leading role in the Outlawry of War movement after the war; and his participation in both radical and anti-communist politics in the 1930s and 40s. Robert B. Westbrook reconstructs the evolution of Dewey''s thought and practice in this masterful intellectual biography, combining readings of his major works with an engaging account of key chapters in his activism. Westbrook pays particular attention to the impact upon Dewey of conversations and debates with contemporaries from William James and Reinhold Niebuhr to Jane Addams and Leon Trotsky. Countering prevailing interpretations of Dewey''s contribution to the ideology of American liberalism, he discovers a more unorthodox Dewey—a deviant within the liberal community who was steadily radicalized by his profound faith in participatory democracy. Anyone concerned with the nature of democracy and the future of liberalism in America—including educators, moral and social philosophers, social scientists, political theorists, and intellectual and cultural historians—will find John Dewey and American Democracy indispensable reading.

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Affiche du document Autobiography of Giambattista Vico — Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher''s intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the development of concepts central to his mature work. Beyond its relevance to the development of the New Science, the Autobiography is also of interest for the light it sheds on Italian culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Still regarded by many as the best English-language translation of this classic work, the Cornell edition was widely lauded when first published in 1944. Wrote the Saturday Review of Literature: "Here was something new in the art of self-revelation. Vico wrote of his childhood, the psychological influences to which he was subjected, the social conditions under which he grew up and received an education and evolved his own way of thinking. It was so outstanding a piece of work that it was held up as a model, which it still is."

Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher''s intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the development of concepts central to his mature work. Beyond its relevance to the development of the New Science, the Autobiography is also of interest for the light it sheds on Italian culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Still regarded by many as the best English-language translation of this classic work, the Cornell edition was widely lauded when first published in 1944. Wrote the Saturday Review of Literature: "Here was something new in the art of self-revelation. Vico wrote of his childhood, the psychological influences to which he was subjected, the social conditions under which he grew up and received an education and evolved his own way of thinking. It was so outstanding a piece of work that it was held up as a model, which it still is."

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Affiche du document Fierce and Fearless — Fierce and Fearless
Gwendolyn Mink
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Winner of the 2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women''s and/or Gender History, given by the Organization of American HistoriansThe first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX “Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every parent—including Michelle and myself—who watches their daughter on a field or in the classroom is forever grateful to the late Patsy Takemoto Mink.”—President Barack Obama, on posthumously awarding Mink the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. Fierce and Fearless is the first biography of this remarkable woman, who first won election to Congress in 1964 and went on to serve in the House for twenty-four years, her final term ending with her death in 2002. Mink was an advocate for girls and women, best known for her work shepherding and defending Title IX, the legislation that changed the face of education in America, making it possible for girls and women to participate in school sports, and in education more broadly, at the same level as boys and men.Mink’s life is wonderfully chronicled by eminent historian Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, Patsy’s daughter, a noted political science scholar and first-hand witness to the many political struggles that her mother had to overcome. Featuring family anecdotes, vignettes, and photographs, Fierce and Fearless offers new insight into who Mink was, and the progressive principles that fueled her mission. Wu and Mink provide readers with an up-close understanding of her life as a third-generation Japanese American from Hawaii—from her childhood on Maui to her decades-long career in the House, working with noted legislators like Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Nancy Pelosi. They follow the evolution of her politics, including her advocacy for race, gender, and class equality and her work to promote peace and environmental justice.Fierce and Fearless provides vivid details of how Patsy Takemoto Mink changed the future of American politics. Celebrating the life and legacy of a woman, activist, and politician ahead of her time, this book illuminates the life of a trailblazing icon who made history.

Fierce and Fearless
Gwendolyn Mink
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Winner of the 2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women''s and/or Gender History, given by the Organization of American HistoriansThe first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX “Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every parent—including Michelle and myself—who watches their daughter on a field or in the classroom is forever grateful to the late Patsy Takemoto Mink.”—President Barack Obama, on posthumously awarding Mink the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. Fierce and Fearless is the first biography of this remarkable woman, who first won election to Congress in 1964 and went on to serve in the House for twenty-four years, her final term ending with her death in 2002. Mink was an advocate for girls and women, best known for her work shepherding and defending Title IX, the legislation that changed the face of education in America, making it possible for girls and women to participate in school sports, and in education more broadly, at the same level as boys and men.Mink’s life is wonderfully chronicled by eminent historian Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, Patsy’s daughter, a noted political science scholar and first-hand witness to the many political struggles that her mother had to overcome. Featuring family anecdotes, vignettes, and photographs, Fierce and Fearless offers new insight into who Mink was, and the progressive principles that fueled her mission. Wu and Mink provide readers with an up-close understanding of her life as a third-generation Japanese American from Hawaii—from her childhood on Maui to her decades-long career in the House, working with noted legislators like Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Nancy Pelosi. They follow the evolution of her politics, including her advocacy for race, gender, and class equality and her work to promote peace and environmental justice.Fierce and Fearless provides vivid details of how Patsy Takemoto Mink changed the future of American politics. Celebrating the life and legacy of a woman, activist, and politician ahead of her time, this book illuminates the life of a trailblazing icon who made history.

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Affiche du document Les Ancêtres de Jean-François Millet — Les Ancêtres de Jean-François Millet
Jean Mayet
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De nombreux livres ont été écrits sur le peintre Jean-François Millet, sur sa vie, sur ses œuvres et sur sa descendance mais je n'ai rien trouvé, jusqu'à présent, sur son arbre généalogique ascendant et sur ses ancêtres. Jean-François Millet faisant partie de la famille puisqu'il est l'arrière-arrière-grand-père de mon épouse, j'ai eu envie de connaître ce passé et, pour cela, j'ai parcouru, durant cinq années, de nombreuses archives et plusieurs livres qui m'ont permis de faire des découvertes passionnantes et très intéressantes sur les ancêtres, parfois prestigieux, de Jean-François Millet. Quand on connaît la vie très difficile qu'il a connue, mais aussi celle de sa famille, de ses parents et grands-parents qui n'ont connu que la vie paysanne et qui ont vécu dans la pauvreté, on a du mal à imaginer que Jean-François Millet ait eu des ancêtres lointains aussi prestigieux. La plupart de ceux-ci appartenaient à la noblesse, voire à la « haute noblesse » puisque la plus grande partie de ses ascendants directs ont occupé de hautes fonctions dans les différentes cours françaises et étrangères allant jusqu'au titre suprême de roi aussi bien dans le royaume des Francs que dans les royaumes étrangers. Cette noblesse diminue fortement et perd de l'importance vers le XIIIe siècle pour n'occuper que des fonctions locales en Normandie et principalement dans ce qui est aujourd'hui le département de la Manche puis disparaît totalement à partir du XVIIIe siècle.

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Affiche du document Général baron Jean-Marie Tissot (1772-1832) — Général baron Jean-Marie Tissot (1772-1832)
Geneviève Martin-Clavel
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Natif du pays de Gex, Jean-Marie Tissot va servir sous la République, l'Empire, la Restauration, avec La Fayette, Bonaparte, Eugène de Beauharnais, le duc d'Angoulême, dans la 6e demi-brigade de ligne, le 92e régiment d'infanterie de ligne, puis le 37e. Il sillonne l'Europe : Valmy, la Vendée, l'Italie, l'Albanie, l'Allemagne, la Russie, l'Espagne... À partir d'archives familiales, militaires, administratives, l'auteur a reconstitué la carrière du général Tissot, dont le fait d'armes le plus marquant est sa conduite exemplaire lors de la bataille de Préveza, en 1798, ce qui ne l'empêcha pas de connaître le bagne d'Ali Pacha à Constantinople.

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Affiche du document Les Anges déplumés — Les Anges déplumés
Toader Nicolaie
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« (...) Les vitrines des boucheries, des boulangeries, les vitrines des magasins en général étaient vides la plupart du temps, et même les mouches étaient mortes de faim dans ces vitrines désolées. Par contre, il y avait une émulation sociale dès que la rumeur d'un transport qui allait venir en ville courait. On commençait à faire la queue avant même que le camion ne parte pour ramener la marchandise... C'est ainsi qu'on passait six, huit, voire douze heures pour acheter de la lessive, des fournitures scolaires, sans parler des précieux œufs, viande, lait, pain, etc. Les premières personnes de la queue étaient, en règle générale, les personnes âgées retraitées, des voisins de la caissière, ou alors des amis de la famille qui avaient été informés de cette possibilité par téléphone ou alors en épiant les conversations de la caissière à travers les fines parois des HLM roumains. Les autres s'agglutinaient comme des raisins en grappe, de sorte qu'en une demi-heure une grosse queue se formait devant l'entrée du magasin ou alors directement devant la porte de derrière, là où l'on réceptionnait la marchandise. (...) »

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Affiche du document L'Évadé d'Aurigny — L'Évadé d'Aurigny
Jean-Louis Vigla
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L'auteur est le propre fils de "l'évadé" Jean Vigla. Son livre fait suite à une série d'entretiens, de recherches en commun et d'une visite sur l'île. Même si le récit prend parfois des allures rocambolesques, rien de ce qui a été rapporté n'est du domaine du roman. La première version reproduite ici, corrigée et augmentée, a permis d'attirer l'attention sur cette ile-bagne en 1942-1943 et de réaffirmer que certains camps dits "de travail" sur l'île étaient en fait des camps de concentration, comme le camp de Norderney où seront déportés des "demi-juifs" en provenance de Drancy. Jean Vigla a eu la chance d'échapper aux SS qui séviront ensuite sur " L'île Adolf ", nom de code choisi par Hitler en personne.

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Affiche du document Les Félins de Brunswick — Les Félins de Brunswick
Bernard Boulengier
3h28min30
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Quel destin que celui d’Henri le Lion, grand seigneur du Saint-Empire ! Appartenant à la puissante Maison des Welfs, simultanément duc de Saxe et de Bavière, cas rarissime en Allemagne, il fixa sa capitale à Brunswick, cité dont il avait hérité de sa mère. Entré en conflit avec son cousin l’empereur Frédéric Barberousse, il fut condamné à l’exil en 1180 et se réfugia chez son beau-père Henri II d’Angleterre. Malgré le décès fortuit de Barberousse à la troisième croisade, il ne put jamais recouvrer ses duchés. De ses fils, les « lionceaux », le plus remarquable fut le cadet : élu empereur par le parti du pape, Otton IV de Brunswick a régné brièvement. Il voulut aider son oncle, Jean sans Terre, contre Philippe-Auguste, mais sa défaite à Bouvines (en 1214) a précipité sa fin. La biographie de ces princes est la première écrite par un auteur français.

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Affiche du document Le Chevalier de Méré — Le Chevalier de Méré
Jean-Paul Taillé
5h06min00
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Jeune, gentilhomme d’ancienne lignée charentaise, instruit, habile, cultivé, Antoine Gombaud sut se créer un réseau de relations inattendues et se faire admettre parmi les courtisans précieux et libertins de Louis XIII et de Louis XIV. Sur ses vieux jours, toujours peu fortuné, dans « son désert », le château de Beaussais, tout en assumant la gestion de ses terres en seigneur épicurien, il s’est mis à écrire jusqu’à sa mort. Il nous a laissé ses Conversations, ses Discours, des poèmes, des Maximes et surtout ses Lettres dont Sainte Beuve a écrit « qu’elles étaient dignes de l’Académie Française ». Mais dans ces textes de sexagénaire, il a tout fait pour apparaître comme un maître de savoir dire et d’élégance remarqué et influent dans les meilleurs salons parisiens de l’époque, désireux de nous persuader d’avoir rencontré et conseillé des Dames et des Hommes devenus historiques. En voulant laisser de lui l’image d’un personnage digne de son « honneste homme », des contemporains le jugèrent souvent trop hautain, trop donneur de leçons. Les siècles suivants l’oublièrent ou le redécouvrirent plutôt comme continuateur de la réforme des belles mœurs venue d’Italie contribuant à polir le savoir-vivre des courtisans français. Dans ses traités moraux, la philosophie qu’il développe propose des valeurs fondamentales qui restent toujours les bases du lien social, essentielles à l’harmonie des relations humaines dans toute société.

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Affiche du document Sur les flancs du Mont Pellegrino — Sur les flancs du Mont Pellegrino
Philippe San Marco
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Marseille. Confronté à la violence des conflits politiques, un être humain façonné par des règles de vie et d’éducation linéaires aurait pu craquer. Car la rectitude peut l’amener à se briser. Pourtant, face à l’adversité, à l’injustice, à l’incompréhensible, une issue étonnante s’est trouvée dans la recherche patiente de la mémoire oubliée de ses ancêtres. Un héritage non transmis s’est imposé de manière inattendue et a permis une mutation salvatrice. Ce livre est l’histoire croisée de siciliens très pauvres contraints à l’émigration à la suite de l’unité italienne et celle du sauvetage d’un de leurs descendants grâce à la découverte de ses racines ignorées. Une recherche généalogique et intérieure, pleine d’émotion et de coups de théâtre, qui se lit comme un roman, un voyage au travers de quatre générations, de Palerme à Marseille en passant par Tunis.

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Affiche du document L’héritage intellectuel d’Ahmed Baba Es- Sudani de Tombouctou, Sa Doctrine — L’héritage intellectuel d’Ahmed Baba Es- Sudani de Tombouctou, Sa Doctrine
Dr. Ahmadou TOURE
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Dans ce mémoire de fin d’études, il est question de l’héritage intellectuel d’Ahmed Baba Es-Sudâni (1556-1627) natif de Tombouctou, en l’occurrence de sa doctrine un des plus grands savants du Soudan occidental à l’époque de l’empire Songhoy. Il n’est pas à confondre avec Ahmed Baba Aboul Abbas le cadi (1831-1936) également originaire de Tombouctou. Ahmed Baba Es- Sudani, en tant que penseur mérite d’être encore étudier pour le faire connaître davantage dans le milieu intellectuel et particulièrement universitaire ; d’où la raison de ce mémoire qui s’intitule “la doctrine d’Ahmed Baba Es- Sudani “. Ainsi, nous pensons contribuer à le faire connaître, voire à le faire intégrer dans les programmes d’enseignement au même titre que les auteurs occidentaux, à contribuer à la sauvegarde et à la réhabilitation du patrimoine culturel africain. Malgré la qualité de ses œuvres, il est mal connu, du fait que pendant toute la colonisation, il a été volontairement ignoré, bien que sa pensée soit d’une grande envergure, et résume le génie intellectuel des grands savants sahéliens. Vu ces objectifs, nous nous sommes posé certaines questions, à savoir : Qui était Ahmed Baba Es- Sudani sa vie et son œuvre ? En quoi consiste sa doctrine ? Quel type de penseur est-il ? Quel regard critique peut-on avoir sur son héritage intellectuel ? Notre démarche a consisté à entreprendre une quête de l’information aussi bien par la documentation écrite qu’orale, à Bamako et à Tombouctou en nous intéressant aux auteurs qui ont parlé ou écrit sur Ahmed Baba et Tombouctou De même, nous-nous sommes entretenu avec plusieurs spécialistes d’Ahmed Baba EsSudani à Bamako et à Tombouctou. En somme, il ressort de la présente étude que le penseur malien Ahmed Baba EsSudani, peut-être qualifié de philosophe africain, négro-berbère de grande envergure. Il est encore d’actualité par son esprit patriotique, son sens de la bonne gouvernance et son souci de la défense des droits de l’homme et de l’égalité des races.

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Affiche du document L'insurgé — L'insurgé
Jules Vallès
4h36min00
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Jules Vallès (1832-1885) "C’est peut-être vrai que je suis un lâche, ainsi que l’ont dit sous l’Odéon les bonnets rouges et les talons noirs. Voilà des semaines que je suis pion, et je ne ressens ni un chagrin ni une douleur ; je ne suis pas irrité et je n’ai point honte. J’avais insulté les fayots de collège ; il paraît que les haricots sont meilleurs dans ce pays-ci, car j’en avale des platées et je lèche et relèche l’assiette. En plein silence de réfectoire, l’autre jour, j’ai crié, comme jadis, chez Richefeu : – Garçon, encore une portion ! Tout le monde s’est retourné, et l’on a ri. J’ai ri aussi – je suis en train de gagner l’insouciance des galériens, le cynisme des prisonniers, de me faire à mon bagne, de noyer mon cœur dans une chopine d’abondance – je vais aimer mon auge ! J’ai eu faim si longtemps ! J’ai si souvent serré mes côtes, pour étouffer cette faim qui grognait et mordait mes entrailles, j’ai tant de fois brossé mon ventre sans faire reluire l’espoir d’un dîner, que je trouve une volupté d’ours couché dans une treille à pommader de sauce chaude mes boyaux secs. C’est presque la joie d’une blessure guérie à chatouiller. Toujours est-il que je n’ai plus le teint verdâtre et l’œil creux ; il traîne souvent de l’œuf dans ma barbe. Je ne la peignais pas autrefois, cette barbe ; mes doigts la fourrageaient et la maltraitaient, lorsque je songeais à mon impuissance et à ma misère." Troisième volet de la trilogie "Jacques Vingtras".

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Affiche du document Napoléon III, l'incompris — Napoléon III, l'incompris
Olivier Pastré
1h44min15
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Longtemps éclipsé par l’ombre de son illustre oncle, Napoléon III reste une figure méconnue et souvent caricaturée de l’histoire française. Pourtant, son règne fut celui d’une modernisation fulgurante, d’une puissance économique retrouvée et d’un État stratège capable d’anticiper les défis d’un monde nouveau. Ce livre veut simplement rétablir la réalité des faits et démontrer l’actualité d’un règne qui a fait entrer la France dans la modernité, et ce dans tous les domaines. Et si l’expérience du Second Empire pouvait éclairer d’un jour nouveau les défis actuels de la France ? Joachim Murat est diplômé en sciences politiques, président de la Fondation Galilé pour la réindustrialisation. Il est le descendant direct du maréchal et roi de Naples Joachim Murat et de Caroline Bonaparte, sœur de l’empereur Napoléon Ier. Olivier Pastré est professeur d’économie émérite à Paris-VIII, membre du Cercle des économistes, président d’IMB Bank (Tunis) et descendant de Jean-Baptiste Pastré, membre du premier conseil d’administration de la Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez.

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Affiche du document Judgment and Mercy — Judgment and Mercy
J. Siegel Martin
3h18min00
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2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize FinalistIn Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel examines the complex life and career of Irving Kaufman, the judge infamous for sentencing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage in 1951.While many saw the Rosenberg affair as a McCarthyite stain on American justice, Kaufman later became a leading progressive, issuing key rulings on school desegregation, prison reform, and free speech.Yet the Rosenberg case haunted him. Decades later, revelations of judicial misconduct led to renewed protests and calls for impeachment. His Supreme Court ambitions faded, and family tragedy deepened his suffering.Absorbingly told, Judgment and Mercy reveals a judge both ambitious and tormented, exploring his influence on American history and the long shadow of a decision that shaped his legacy.

Judgment and Mercy
J. Siegel Martin
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2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize FinalistIn Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel examines the complex life and career of Irving Kaufman, the judge infamous for sentencing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage in 1951.While many saw the Rosenberg affair as a McCarthyite stain on American justice, Kaufman later became a leading progressive, issuing key rulings on school desegregation, prison reform, and free speech.Yet the Rosenberg case haunted him. Decades later, revelations of judicial misconduct led to renewed protests and calls for impeachment. His Supreme Court ambitions faded, and family tragedy deepened his suffering.Absorbingly told, Judgment and Mercy reveals a judge both ambitious and tormented, exploring his influence on American history and the long shadow of a decision that shaped his legacy.

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Affiche du document Judgment and Mercy — Judgment and Mercy
J. Siegel Martin
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2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize FinalistIn Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel examines the complex life and career of Irving Kaufman, the judge infamous for sentencing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage in 1951.While many saw the Rosenberg affair as a McCarthyite stain on American justice, Kaufman later became a leading progressive, issuing key rulings on school desegregation, prison reform, and free speech.Yet the Rosenberg case haunted him. Decades later, revelations of judicial misconduct led to renewed protests and calls for impeachment. His Supreme Court ambitions faded, and family tragedy deepened his suffering.Absorbingly told, Judgment and Mercy reveals a judge both ambitious and tormented, exploring his influence on American history and the long shadow of a decision that shaped his legacy.

Judgment and Mercy
J. Siegel Martin
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2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize FinalistIn Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel examines the complex life and career of Irving Kaufman, the judge infamous for sentencing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage in 1951.While many saw the Rosenberg affair as a McCarthyite stain on American justice, Kaufman later became a leading progressive, issuing key rulings on school desegregation, prison reform, and free speech.Yet the Rosenberg case haunted him. Decades later, revelations of judicial misconduct led to renewed protests and calls for impeachment. His Supreme Court ambitions faded, and family tragedy deepened his suffering.Absorbingly told, Judgment and Mercy reveals a judge both ambitious and tormented, exploring his influence on American history and the long shadow of a decision that shaped his legacy.

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G. K. Chesterton
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Here is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of the most stimulating and well-loved writers of the 20th century. His 100 books, and hundreds of essays and columns on a great variety of themes have made G.K. Chesterton the most widely quoted writers of modern times. Here is Chesterton in his own words, in a book he preferred not to write, but did so near the end of his life after much insistence by friends and admirers. Critic Sydney Dark wrote after Chesterton died that “perhaps the happiest thing that happened in Gilbert Chesterton's extraordinarily happy life was that his autobiography was finished a few weeks before his death. It is a stimulating, exciting, tremendously interesting book."

Autobiography
G. K. Chesterton
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Here is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of the most stimulating and well-loved writers of the 20th century. His 100 books, and hundreds of essays and columns on a great variety of themes have made G.K. Chesterton the most widely quoted writers of modern times. Here is Chesterton in his own words, in a book he preferred not to write, but did so near the end of his life after much insistence by friends and admirers. Critic Sydney Dark wrote after Chesterton died that “perhaps the happiest thing that happened in Gilbert Chesterton's extraordinarily happy life was that his autobiography was finished a few weeks before his death. It is a stimulating, exciting, tremendously interesting book."

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Tamara Loos
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Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam''s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam''s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a commotion in every country he inhabited. Prisdang spent his first five years in exile from Siam living in disguise as a commoner and employee of the British Empire in colonial Southeast Asia. He then resurfaced in the 1890s in British Ceylon, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk and became a widely respected abbot. Foreigners from around the world were drawn to this prince who had discarded wealth and royal status to lead the life of an ascetic. His fluency in English, royal blood, acute intellect, and charisma earned him importance in international diplomatic and Buddhist circles. Prisdang''s life journey reminds us of the complexities of the colonial encounter and the recalibrations it caused in local political cultures. His drama offers more than a story about Siamese politics: it also casts in high relief the subjective experience of global imperialism. Telling this history from the vantage point of a remarkable individual grounds and animates the historical abstractions of imperialism, Buddhist universalism, and the transformation of Siam into a modern state.

Bones around My Neck
Tamara Loos
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Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam''s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam''s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a commotion in every country he inhabited. Prisdang spent his first five years in exile from Siam living in disguise as a commoner and employee of the British Empire in colonial Southeast Asia. He then resurfaced in the 1890s in British Ceylon, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk and became a widely respected abbot. Foreigners from around the world were drawn to this prince who had discarded wealth and royal status to lead the life of an ascetic. His fluency in English, royal blood, acute intellect, and charisma earned him importance in international diplomatic and Buddhist circles. Prisdang''s life journey reminds us of the complexities of the colonial encounter and the recalibrations it caused in local political cultures. His drama offers more than a story about Siamese politics: it also casts in high relief the subjective experience of global imperialism. Telling this history from the vantage point of a remarkable individual grounds and animates the historical abstractions of imperialism, Buddhist universalism, and the transformation of Siam into a modern state.

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Tamara Loos
2h02min15
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Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam''s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam''s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a commotion in every country he inhabited. Prisdang spent his first five years in exile from Siam living in disguise as a commoner and employee of the British Empire in colonial Southeast Asia. He then resurfaced in the 1890s in British Ceylon, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk and became a widely respected abbot. Foreigners from around the world were drawn to this prince who had discarded wealth and royal status to lead the life of an ascetic. His fluency in English, royal blood, acute intellect, and charisma earned him importance in international diplomatic and Buddhist circles. Prisdang''s life journey reminds us of the complexities of the colonial encounter and the recalibrations it caused in local political cultures. His drama offers more than a story about Siamese politics: it also casts in high relief the subjective experience of global imperialism. Telling this history from the vantage point of a remarkable individual grounds and animates the historical abstractions of imperialism, Buddhist universalism, and the transformation of Siam into a modern state.

Bones around My Neck
Tamara Loos
2h02min15
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Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam''s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam''s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a commotion in every country he inhabited. Prisdang spent his first five years in exile from Siam living in disguise as a commoner and employee of the British Empire in colonial Southeast Asia. He then resurfaced in the 1890s in British Ceylon, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk and became a widely respected abbot. Foreigners from around the world were drawn to this prince who had discarded wealth and royal status to lead the life of an ascetic. His fluency in English, royal blood, acute intellect, and charisma earned him importance in international diplomatic and Buddhist circles. Prisdang''s life journey reminds us of the complexities of the colonial encounter and the recalibrations it caused in local political cultures. His drama offers more than a story about Siamese politics: it also casts in high relief the subjective experience of global imperialism. Telling this history from the vantage point of a remarkable individual grounds and animates the historical abstractions of imperialism, Buddhist universalism, and the transformation of Siam into a modern state.

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Affiche du document MADIFING, LE SERVITEUR DE LA NATION — MADIFING, LE SERVITEUR DE LA NATION
SAMA TOURÉ
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Il est plus aisé d'évoquer la situation sociopolitique de la Guinée que de l'expérimenter pleinement. Ainsi, Madifing DIANÉ, témoin privilégié et acteur clé des différents régimes ayant marqué l'histoire de notre pays, occupe une place centrale dans cet ouvrage. À travers son parcours, l'auteur dont la plume se distingue par sa richesse, sa pertinence et une vivacité d'esprit reconnue au-delà de nos frontières, éclaire les dynamiques et les enjeux de ces pouvoirs. Après le succès de ses deux précédents romans, Sama TOURÉ analyse non seulement les conditions d'accession au pouvoir de ces régimes, mais aussi leurs mérites et leurs faiblesses, dévoilant des aspects souvent méconnus de notre histoire nationale. Madifing DIANÉ incarne le produit incontestable du régime du PDG-RDA, qui lui permit de faire ses premières armes en politique et de s'affirmer comme une figure incontournable de l'évolution sociopolitique guinéenne. En retraçant sa vie et ses relations avec les divers pouvoirs successifs, l'auteur immortalise non seulement un homme, mais enrichit également la compréhension de l'évolution politique de la République de Guinée. Il accorde une attention particulière au défunt Président Ahmed Sékou TOURÉ, dont les efforts inlassables visaient à faire de la Guinée un havre de paix et un refuge pour les exilés politiques d'Afrique et d'ailleurs. Cet ouvrage, véritable chef-d'œuvre, valorise le roman africain et contribue à son rayonnement littéraire.

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