16 April 2023
Mappa Generalis Totius Imperii Russici. Author: Joseph Nicolas de L'Isle,,1745 . Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Imperialism Revealed in the War. Russia Exposed

 By Sabine Dullin The war in Ukraine has revealed the breadth and depth of Russian imperialism and colonialism. However, many analyses of the war still […]
14 December 2022

Erasures and the Quest for Modernity: The Case of China

The writing and rewriting of history, and its use for political purposes are in the spotlight again. But the disproportionate attention given to violence in […]
13 June 2022

Dying at Work? Industrial Society and the Relationship to Risk

On December 27, 1974, an explosion occurred in one of the tunnels of the Liévin coal mine in northern France. Forty-two miners were killed on […]
12 February 2022

Civilians and Fallen Pilots in Europe, 1939-1945

From Hiding to Aggression From 1939 to 1945, pilots, soldiers and resistance fighters fell from the sky in war zones. However, when we compare the […]
12 February 2022

Counting Populations to Better Govern?

The Birth of the Census in Spain and its Empire in the 19th Century How did the Spanish state set up a census of its […]
12 February 2022

‘Too many civil servants’: History of a Mantra

Some presidential candidates are calling for a massive reduction in the number of civil servants: they are not cost-effective enough. There is nothing new about […]
12 December 2021

Are Communicable Diseases Only Communicable?

By Catherine Cavalin, IRISSO & LIEPP, and Paul-André Rosental, Centre for History Scope and Discussion of the Epidemiological Transition For half a century, the so-called […]
8 July 2021

Reading and Rereading Halévy

A theorist of Liberalism and the Crisis of Democratic Societies By Marie Scot, Centre of History In 2015, Éditions Les Belles Lettres, in partnership with […]
8 July 2021

Writing the History of the Future

For her doctoral thesis, Sibylle Duhautois set herself the challenge of writing the history of the future as it was imagined within international organisations during […]