In this passionate history of the CFDT (Confédération française démocratique du travail), Nicolas Defaud shows how the CFDT has shifted from management-based socialism to apolitical reformism in less than a generation.

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This book crosses histories and associations of tourism, popular leisure, and of the labor movement in order to shed new light on the hope, born in 1936, of the people's tourism, both social and educational.

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A provocative and simple analysis of the European integration process. Nicolas Jabko demonstrates that the European Commission deployed a strategy that invoked mulitple dimensions of the logic of the "market" to promote its political objectives.

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An analysis of the American democratic system throughout the course of the 20th century, as illuminated by the Nixon presidency.

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An history of contemporay Cambodia.

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The aim of this book is to examine the changing nature of the European social model and its capacity to deal with both domestic and external challenges in the early 21st Century.

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This book is not just a simple biography : it is a rare opportunity to discover a usually closed-off universe and a CEO's daily work.

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This work offers an analysis of the (re)production of power ties via military practices, founded on the logics by which gender, class, and race inequalities permeate militancy.

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In following the behavior of the same voters over the long term, during and after the election, this electoral panel study afforded the opportunity to trace the course of the vote and in so doing, to better understand the dynamics of an election.

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Gilles Pinson retraces the origins of large-scale urban projects of Marseille, Nantes, Venice, Turin, Manchester and analyses their impact on urbanism and urban governance.

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Ten years after, this book analyses the acceptation of the PACS by the French society. It brings new elements for a political and social debate on contemporary changes in private life.

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Emotions are at the heart of mass mobilization : The objective here is to analyze these "phenomena" which allow militants to sensitize the public to their cause.

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This book opens the doors of the Emmaus movement, an extraordinary development in contemporary humanitarianism and an important page in French social history.

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À partir des génocides des arméniens, des juifs et des tutsis, ce livre exceptionnel est la première tentative internationale, comparative et pluridisciplinaire pour constituer l'acte de sauvetage en objet de recherche...

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This book demonstrates that French militants for the League of Nations were fighting for a new concept of international relations, looking to limit, if not abolish, violence between sovereign states through juridic rule.

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The author describes the political and historic construction of this market, an effort shared between church, state, and private entrepreneurs...

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Two fundamental questions: that of a republican meritocracy founded more on an archaic social model than on acquired knowledge, and that of the possibility of reforming these graduate programs so strongly anchored in the blueprint of their founders...

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La sécurité des femmes est largement ignorée des médias et des politiques publiques. Ce livre révèle les multiples résistances que ce sujet suscite ...

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