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Author Response: Book Forum, The Meddlers, by Jamie Martin

16 August 2024 | Jamie Martin

** This is Jamie Martin’s author response to our forum on his recent book The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance.** It’s a great honor and privilege […]

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Coordinating commodity production then and now: will this time be different?

15 August 2024 | Charles Sabel

** This is the third of three reviews of Jamie Martin’s The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. Each day this week one review will be published, and […]

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Non-Interference and the Prospects of True Sovereign Equality

14 August 2024 | Mira Siegelberg

** This is the second of three reviews of Jamie Martin’s The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. Each day this week one review will be published, and […]

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Other people’s economies

13 August 2024 | Madeline Woker

** This is the first of three reviews of Jamie Martin’s The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. Each day this week one review will be published, and […]

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Book Forum: The Meddlers, by Jamie Martin

12 August 2024 | Blaise Truong-Loï

** This is the introduction to a forum comprising three reviews of Jamie Martin’s The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. Each day this week one review will […]

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Author Response: Ireland, Empire, and the future of Europe

18 April 2024 | Tocqueville 21

** This is James Stafford’s response to our forum on his book The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848.**   By James Stafford I’d like to start, […]

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Ireland and the Enlightenment’s global history

17 April 2024 | Tocqueville 21

** This is the second in a series of three reviews of James Stafford’s The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. Each day this week one review […]

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The Case of Ireland and the Case of Britain

16 April 2024 | Tocqueville 21

** This is the second in a series of three reviews of James Stafford’s The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. Each day this week one review […]

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The Enlightenment’s national contexts in global perspective

15 April 2024 | Tocqueville 21

** This is the first in a series of three reviews of James Stafford’s The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. Each day this week one review […]

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Racial Symbols and Black Death

3 November 2023 | Dalitso Ruwe

** This is the fourth post in our Black Dignity and Death forum, focusing on Vincent Lloyd’s Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination and Norman Ajari’s Dignity Or Death: Ethics […]

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Cross-reflection on Black Dignity – Reading Vincent Lloyd and Norman Ajari

2 November 2023 | Nathalie Etoke

** This is the third in our Black Dignity and Death forum, focusing on Vincent Lloyd’s Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination and Norman Ajari’s Dignity Or Death: Ethics and […]

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Dignity, police killing, and France’s racial uprising

1 November 2023 | Norman Ajari

** This is the second post in our Black Dignity and Death forum, focusing on Vincent Lloyd’s Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination and Norman Ajari’s Dignity Or Death: Ethics […]

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Black Dignity vs. Liberal Anti-Racism

31 October 2023 | Vincent Lloyd

** This is the first post in our Black Dignity and Death forum, focusing on Vincent Lloyd’s Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination and Norman Ajari’s Dignity Or Death: Ethics […]

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Black Dignity and Death – Forum Introduction

30 October 2023 | Melanie Bavaria

This week, Tocqueville 21 is hosting a forum on the topic of Black Dignity and Death, inspired by the recent publications of Vincent Lloyd’s Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination and […]

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Author Response: Constructing Europe and Defending Empire

24 February 2023 | Megan Brown

**This is the author’s response in our book forum on Megan Brown’s The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. This week, we have published four reviews of […]

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Was Europe Ever The Dream?

23 February 2023 | Arthur Asseraf

** This is the fourth in a series of four reviews of Megan Brown’s The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. Previous reviews include: 1. When Algeria Was […]

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Inclusion, Exclusion: Algeria and the Making of Europe

22 February 2023 | Ariel Mond

** This is the third in a series of four reviews of Megan Brown’s The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. Previous reviews include: 1. When Algeria Was […]

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The Last Dreams of Empire  

21 February 2023 | Melissa Byrnes

**This is the second in a series of four reviews of Megan Brown’s The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. Previous reviews include: 1. When Algeria Was Europe? […]

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When Algeria Was Europe?

20 February 2023 | Danielle Beaujon

** This is the first in a series of four reviews of Megan Brown’s The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. Each day this week one review […]

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FULL BOOK FORUM: Black France, White Europe – Emily Marker

19 December 2022 | Melanie Bavaria

**Last week we published a book forum on Emily Marker’s Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era, with four reviews of Marker’s book and an […]

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Author’s Response: Black France, White Europe (Emily Marker)

16 December 2022 | Emily Marker

**This is the author’s response in our book forum on Emily Marker’s Black France, White Europe” Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era. This week, we have published four […]

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Entangled Histories of African Decolonization

15 December 2022 | Sarah Runcie

**This is the fourth and final review in our forum on Emily Marker’s Black France, White Europe” Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era. Previous reviews include: 1.  The […]

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Youth and the Contradictory Construction of Europe and Africa

14 December 2022 | Gregory Valdespino

**This is the third in a series of four reviews of Emily Marker’s Black France, White Europe” Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era. Previous reviews include: 1.  The […]

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The Colonial Roots of the Idea of a Colorblind France

12 December 2022 | Liz Fink

** This is the first in a series of four reviews of Emily Marker’s Black France, White Europe” Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era. Each day this week […]

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Imagining Europe from the Interstices

13 December 2022 | Jessica Lynne Pearson

** This is the second in a series of four reviews of Emily Marker’s Black France, White Europe” Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era. Each day this week […]

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The Progressive State, New Democracy, and the Elision of Race

17 November 2022 | Kate Masur

** This is the fourth in a series of four reviews of William Novak’s recently published book New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. 1. The Limitless Possibilities […]

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The History and Myth of American Democracy

16 November 2022 | Stephen Sawyer

** This is the third in a series of four reviews of William Novak’s recently published book New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. 1. The Limitless Possibilities […]

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État et démocratie aux Etats-Unis

15 November 2022 | Alain Chatriot

** Ceci est la deuxième critique du livre New Democracy par William Novak. Elle est la seule en français. Les autres sont rédigées en anglais. This is the second in […]

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The Limitless Possibilities of the Long Progressive Era’s New Democracy

14 November 2022 | Laura Phillips-Sawyer

** This is the first in a series of four reviews of William Novak’s recently published book New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. Each day this week […]

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FULL BOOK FORUM: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Olivier Zunz)

15 July 2022 | Christopher Schaefer

** The past two weeks, we have published four reviews of Olivier Zunz’s new biography of Alexis de Tocqueville—two in French, two in English—followed by a response by Zunz. The […]

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Author’s Response: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Olivier Zunz)

13 July 2022 | Olivier Zunz

**This is the author’s response to a series of four reviews – two in French and two in English – of Olivier Zunz’s The Man Who Understood Democracy. Last week, we […]

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The Maimonides of Democracy

12 July 2022 | Cheryl Welch

**This is the last of four reviews of Olivier Zunz’s The Man Who Understood Democracy. Last week, we published the first review: “Voyage dans les arcanes de la pensée Tocquevillienne” […]

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Tocqueville : Penseur et acteur de la démocratie

11 July 2022 | Rouot Madeleine

** Cette recension est la troisième d’une série de quatre critiques de la nouvelle biographie d’Alexis de Tocqueville de l’historien Olivier Zunz. La semaine dernière nous avons publié la recension […]

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The Limits of Tocqueville’s Understanding

8 July 2022 | Jeremy Jennings

** This is the second of four reviews of Olivier Zunz’s The Man Who Understood Democracy. Yesterday, we published the first review: “Voyage dans les arcanes de la pensée Tocquevillienne” […]

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Voyage dans les arcanes de la pensée Tocquevillienne

7 July 2022 | Baptiste Gauthey

** Cette recension est la première d’une série de quatre critiques—deux en français, deux en anglais—de la nouvelle biographie de Alexis de Tocqueville de l’historien Olivier Zunz, suivi par la […]

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Author’s Response: The Economic Weapon (Nicholas Mulder)

14 March 2022 | Nicholas Mulder

** This is the author’s response to a series of four reviews of Nicholas Mulder’s new book The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanction as a Tool of Modern War. […]

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New Histories of the International Order and Why They Matter

3 March 2022 | Glenda Sluga

** This is the fourth in a series of four reviews of Nicholas Mulder’s new book The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanction as a Tool of Modern War. 1. […]

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Economic Sanctions and the Backlash to Liberal Internationalism

2 March 2022 | Jamie Martin

** This is the third in a series of four reviews of Nicholas Mulder’s new book The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanction as a Tool of Modern War. Each […]

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The Paradoxes of Liberal Peacekeeping

1 March 2022 | Liane Hewitt

** This is the second in a series of four reviews of Nicholas Mulder’s new book The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanction as a Tool of Modern War. The […]

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Sanctions: What are they Good For?

28 February 2022 | Ben Coates

** This is the first in a series of four reviews of Nicholas Mulder’s new book The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanction as a Tool of Modern War. Each […]

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