Tag: essays-history
“The Fifth Sun”, by Camilla Townsend: the Aztecs themselves
An Aztec statuette. GIANNI DAGLI ORTI/AURIMAGES “The Fifth Sun. Another history of the Aztecs” (Fifth Sun. A New History of the Aztecs), by Camilla Townsend, translated from English (United States)…
“For Putin’s power, foreign hostility is the main driving force of Russian history”
Two years ago, on December 28, 2021, the Supreme Court of Russia declared the dissolution of the Memorial association, founded in 1987 to establish the historical truth about Soviet crimes…
put Japan back on the world map
Part of Japan, seen from space, in 2005. HO / AFP “Geopolitics of Japan. The island empire”, by Philippe Pelletier, PUF, “Géopolitiques”, 252 p., €14, digital €10. The subject of…
light on Russian rape in Ukraine
“Prepare your holes we are coming to fuck you”: graffiti left by the Russians in a Ukrainian village, northeast of kyiv, in May 2022. LAURENCE GEAI/MYOP FOR “THE WORLD” “Twice…
“Jewish History of France”: “Unwavering belonging”
The Speiser bookstore, rue des Rosiers, in Paris, in 1920. MAHJ “Jewish History of France”, under the direction of Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Albin Michel, 1,086 p., €49.90. One hundred and…