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Ketchup seems iconically American, but the word comes from a Southeast Asian anchovy sauce, and today it is made largely from Chinese tomato paste. Japan's beloved ramen arose from the meeting of...

The oracle of Trophonios at Lebadeia (Boiotia), among the best documented in Greece, was active from the archaic period to the third century AD. At this oracle, divine revelation was given in the...

The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's...

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up...

This volume, the third part of Realms of Memory, focuses on the emblems that signify Frenchness to people around the world. It includes 13 essays on cultural icons from Joan of Arc to Descartes; the...

Le général de Gaulle est d'abord un soldat et un écrivain. Il a abordé dans ses écrits l'essentiel des problèmes militaires qui se posaient à l'armée et à la nation.

Language Notes Text: French From the Back Cover Décrit, analyse, dissèque tous les mouvements, ligues, groupes et groupuscules qui, du début du siècle à aujourd'hui, ont été situés...

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Examines the military and strategic campaigns of King Alexander of Macedon, from his skillful use of local leaders when possible to his policy of adopting the local gods and customs of the countries...

Tous deux Atheniens et disciples de Socrate, Platon et Xenophon appartiennent a la meme generation aristocratique qui, a la fin du Ve siecle, subit la defaite de la guerre du Peloponnese et les...

Nietzsche, le philosophe briseur d'idoles, reste à découvrir, car il se trouve comme enseveli sous des altérations, des mensonges et des falsifications. En fondant à Weimar, en 1897, le Nietzsche...