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The Kill
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00Here is a true publishing event?the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction?s giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola?s The Kill (La Curée) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the author?s twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart saga, it is... more...
Counter-Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 24.00The latest contribution to one of the most distinguished and important series in political thought in the world. more...
Democratic Legitimacy
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 35.00It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy , Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of... more...
Tocqueville
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 16.00This new translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. more...
Empire's Children
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 27.50Europe’s imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers.When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons of mixed parentage born in French Indochina—the... more...
Tocqueville
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 35.00Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, Democracy in America... more...
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