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Mise en page 1 - Foreign Rights
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CONTENTS
Essays
Contribution à la théorie du baiser
Manifeste hédoniste
Manifeste féministe
Les Nouveaux Terroristes
Le Choc des révolutions arabes
Zones grises
Eurasie, le nouveau grand jeu
Musiciennes
Tokyo Sisters
Ce que soulève la jupe
Les Lascars
Alexandre Lacroix
Michel Onfray
Laure Adler
Mathieu Guidère
Mathieu Guidère
Gaïdz Minassian
Gaïdz Minassian
Hyacinthe Ravet
Raphaëlle Choël & Julie Rovéro-Carrez
Christine Bard
Marc Hatzfeld
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Literature
Les Heures silencieuses
Mots de tête
Tout un homme
Dans un livre j’ai lu que…
Gaëlle Josse
Dominique Resch
Jean-Paul Wenzel
Eugène
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History
Guide historique d’Auschwitz
Triangle rose
L’Invention de la culture hétérosexuelle
Jean-François Forges & Pierre-Jérôme Biscarat
Régis Schlagdenhauffen
Louis-Georges Tin
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Atlas – Geography & History
Atlas de l’Italie contemporaine
Atlas de l’Allemagne
Atlas de l’Océanie
Atlas géopolitique du Royaume-Uni
Atlas géopolitique d’Israël
Atlas des Palestiniens
Atlas de Paris
Atlas de Mexico
Atlas de Séoul
Aurélien Delpirou et Stéphane Mourlane
Michel Deshaies
Fabrice Argounes ; Sarah Mohamed-Gaillars & Luc Vacher
Mark Bailoni & Delphine Papin
Frédéric Encel
Jean-Paul Chagnollaud & Sid-Amed Souiah
Antoine Brès & Thierry Sanjuan
Antonine Ribardière & Bernard Tallet
Valérie Gelézeau
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Atlas des énergies mondiales
Atlas mondial du nucléaire
Alas des villes durables
Atlas de l’agriculture
Atlas mondial des cuisines et gastronomies
Atlas mondial des vins
Atlas du sport mondial
Bertrand Barré & Bernadette Mérenne-Schoumaker
Bruno Tertrais
Laure Flavigny
Jean-Paul Charvet
Gilles Fumet & Olivier Etcheverria
Raphaël Schirmer & Hélène Vélasco-Graciet
Pascal Gillon ; Loïc Ravenel & Frédéric Grosjean
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Grand Atlas de l’histoire de France
Atlas de la Révolution française
Atlas du monde hellénistique
Jean Boutier ; Olivier Guyotjeannin & Gilles Pécout
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Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire ; Silvia Marzagalli & Guillaume Balavoine 40
Laurianne Sève
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Index – Authors & Titles
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Essays
Alexandre Lacroix
Contribution à la théorie du baiser
A Contribution to the Theory of the Kiss
PUBLICATION DATE: AUGUST 2011
PRICE: 15 EUR
144 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
All lovers exchange kisses on the mouth, and there are some kisses that
mark you for life. But why? Alexandre Lacroix embarks on an investigation drawing on his own memories but also referring to the history
of art and metaphysics, from Ancient Rome to Hollywood…
“One December evening, my wife drew near me and made a
reproach that she has directed at me countless times: ‘You never kiss me
enough!’ She went on: ‘You’re so insipid. Why don’t you ever think of
taking me into your arms just to kiss me?” As per my usual response to
these words, I did nothing more than shrug my shoulders.
But a little later in the evening, after she had gone to bed and I was
whiling away hours on my computer, I typed out a series of reflections
on the kiss that would become the first chapter of this book. Where did
I stand with the kiss? What was it about this utterly simple gesture that
caused me to see it as useless or difficult? The next day, while reading
over what I had written, I felt that I had touched upon a deeper subject
than may initially appear…”
This investigation led the author to travel through his souvenirs, to
ponder upon the role played by kisses throughout a lifetime, from adolescence to conjugal love, but also to explore a little-known aspect of
the history of the West. At times, Lacroix shares his personal memories
(a kiss between children, his first kiss as a high-school student on board
a ferry heading to England…), at other times he examines the kiss in
the light of the arts and history. The history of the kiss he presents is
fascinating. Making his way through Antiquity, the Renaissance, the
Enlightenment and the 20th century, he unveils to us different facets of
the kiss through the prism of the arts: poetry, painting, literature, film
(during the period when censorship was strident)…
By focusing exclusively on the romantic kiss, Alexandre Lacroix offers
us an intimate and lively essay that scorns the exhaustiveness and encyclopaedic detail of rival works.
THE AUTHOR
Alexandre Lacroix is editor-in-chief of Philosophie Magazine, and teaches
at Sciences Po. Paris. He has written numerous novels and essays, chiefly
published by Flammarion. He is editing Autrement’s new series entitled:
“Morales” whose first titles will be published in 2012.
KEY SELLING POINTS
• An
intimate and lively literary essay on the romantic kiss.
work by Alexandre Lacroix stands out from others on the subject
that take a more encyclopaedic approach. The aim here is not to notch
up references but to discern the existential importance of this gesture.
• This
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Essays
Michel Onfray
Manifeste hédoniste
A Hedonistic Manifesto
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 2011
PRICE: 15 EUR
168 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
An opportunity to know
more about friendship
relations and the favourite
of the most popular
French intellectual.
Le Point
Michel Onfray presents, in the first part of this work, a summary of his
philosophy.
He then opens the doors of his universe to numerous intellectuals
and artists from different horizons, who dialogue with him, deliver their
vision of hedonism in articles written by them, interviews, portfolios of
illustrations or photographs, reports or joint interviews. Le Manifeste
hédoniste allows us to discover the intellectual and artistic universe of
one of the most popular philosophers today.
“Hedonistic philosophy is a psychological, ethical, erotic, aesthetic,
bioethical, political proposition... It proposes (and advocates), in the
same way as Epicure and the epicureans, but also and above all Lucretius,
a discourse on the nature of things, so that each one of us may find his
or her own role in a nature, a world, a cosmos, with the prospect of a
successful life – the successful life being defined as the one that we would
like to relive if it were possible for us to live another one. With this in
mind, let us determine here and now what we would like to see repeated
in the hypothesis of an eternal return.”
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Ingrid Astier, author; Jean-Paul Enthoven, writer and editor; Gérard
Garouste, painter and sculptor; Alain Jugnon, philosopher; Juliette,
author-composer-performer; Titouan Lamazou, artist and writer; Jean
Lambert-Wild, director of the Comédie de Caen; Jean Lhéritier, president of Slow Food France; Jean-Luc Mélenchon, politician; Robert Misrahi, philosopher; Ernest Pignon-Ernest, artist; Bettina Rheims,
photographer; Université Populaire de Caen.
THE AUTHOR
Michel Onfray, philosopher, has always placed hedonism and atheism
at the heart of his work. Founder of the Université Populaire de Caen
(2002) then the Université Populaire du Goût in Argentan (2006), he
is also known for his lectures on the counter-history of philosophy, regularly broadcast on France Culture radio station.
MANIFESTO SERIES
Le Manifeste hédoniste by Michel Onfray inaugurates a new collection to
which three to four titles will be added every year: the “Manifeste” collection. The underlying idea is for selected personalities to defend a value
or personal commitment in a short text or a long interview, and then to
gather written or illustrated contributions by authors, artists, cultural or
on-the-ground figures whom they admire, who have inspired their work,
and who, in their own paths, echo the idea being defended. A new collection that veers off the beaten track of traditional essays.
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Essays
Laure Adler
Manifeste féministe
A Feminist Manifesto
MANIFESTO SERIES
PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER 2011
PRICE: 15 EUR
144 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
A chosen personality stands up for a specified value, gathering the views
of authors, artists, philosophers or movers and shakers who at some
point have inspired his or her work and imagination while reflecting the
idea being defended.
In this second opus from the “Manifesto” series, Laure Adler chooses
to speak about women and feminism through male eyes or deeds. How
have men been involved in the cause of women from the early moments
of feminism until today? To further her observations, Laure Adler summons intellectuals and artists from different domains, each with a word
to say on the matter: Pap N’Diaye on the emancipation of black women,
Stéphane Hessel on women in the French Resistance, François Ozon on
women in the world of film, Lionel Jospin who introduced equal representation to the French National Assembly…
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Christian Boltanski, plastic artist ; Edgar Morin, sociologist & philosopher ;
Peter Sloterdijk, philosopher and essayist ; Jacques Rancière, philosopher ;
François Ozon, filmmaker ; Pierre Michon, writer ; Stéphane Hessel,
diplomat and political activist, former French Resistance fighter ; Philippe
Katerine, author-composer-singer ; Lionel Jospin, politician ; René Frydman, obstetrician ; Amartya Sen, economist ; Christian Lacroix, haute
couture designer ; Denis Roche, writer & photographer ; Pap N’Diaye,
historian, specialist on black politics in France ; Alain Platel, director &
choreographer ; Nikita from STRASS (a sex worker syndicate) ; Paul
Rondin, director of the Théâtre de l’Odéon.
THE AUTHOR
Laure Adler is a historian, journalist, author and producer. Since completing a thesis on nineteenth-century feminists, she has published
numerous works – essays and biographies – on women.
Already published: L’Année des adieux (Flammarion, 2011); Françoise
(Grasset, 2011); L’Insoumise, Simone Weil (Actes Sud, 2008); Marguerite
Duras (Gallimard, 1998); Sur les femmes: les femmes qui lisent sont dangereuses, co-written by S. Bollamnn (Flammarion, 2006); Les Femmes
politiques (Le Seuil, 1994).
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Laure Adler tackles the theme of feminism in an original manner by
inviting men only to discuss the topic.
• Leading figures share their views on women, each from the perspective
of his own domain.
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Essays
Mathieu Guidère
Les Nouveaux Terroristes
The New Terrorists
PUBLICATION DATE: AUGUST 2010
PRICE: 17 EUR
160 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: CROATIA
The mention of terrorism is usually associated with Al-Qaeda and Bin
Laden. Terrorism is, however, changing, along with its actors. Bin Laden
has become little more than an icon revered by some who go so far as tattooing his portrait on their arms. Al-Qaeda has become a source of inspiration for a radicalised new generation. Who are these new terrorists? How
do they relate to Al-Qaeda? The fi rst characteristic of these terrorists is
their solitary, isolated nature. It is on the Internet that they prepare, communicating virtually with Al-Qaeda. This method allows any sympathiser
in the world to make a name for them self, and increase the impact of the
organisation. And surprisingly, Al-Qaeda is attracting more and more
women. Mathieu Guidère cites several examples, including the American
‘Jihad Jane’, who recruited future terrorists on the Net. A fascinating book,
by a specialist of the Muslim world.
THE AUTHOR
Mathieu Guidère is a professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and a former resident professor at the École Spéciale Militaire de
Saint-Cyr (Saint-Cyr Special Military School in France). He has the
highest postgraduate qualifi cation in Arabic, is a specialist on the Muslim world, and the author of several works on terrorism. He also works
for the media as an expert consultant on geopolitics and public opinion
in the Middle-East.
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Essays
Mathieu Guidère
Le Choc des révolutions arabes
The Shock of the Arab Revolutions
PUBLICATION DATE: MAY 2011
PRICE: 17 EUR
160 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
The Arab revolutions marking the start of the 21st century are historic in
that they have overturned the regional and international geopolitical
hand of cards. No one in the West anticipated such an upset, especially
in so short a time, toppling regimes considered up to that point as stable
and enduring – namely because of a complete lack of discernment concerning the reality on the other side of the Mediterranean. Our surprise
is thus as great as our unfamiliarity with the Arab world, perceived and
judged according to Western reading grids that mask the specificities and
dynamics of the peoples and societies neighbouring them.
Based on reviews of the domestic situation within each country, this
book offers the originality of shedding light on the new Arab world
being constructed before our eyes. The author, an intelligence analyst
specialising in terrorism prevention, is well placed for explaining the real
forces at work in these different countries – twenty-two in all – and
offers the keys to a fascinating and relevant geopolitical forecast.
THE AUTHOR
Mathieu Guidère is the author of several reference works on terrorism
and radical groups in the world, including: Le Manuel de recrutement
d’Al-Qaïda (Seuil, 2006), Al-Qaïda à la conquête du Maghreb, (Le
Rocher, 2007), and Les Nouveaux terroristes (Autrement, 2010).
KEY SELLING POINTS
• 22 Arab countries are placed under the microscope by the author who
presents the forces within: the army, tribes and Islamists.
An investigation into the heart of the Arab world that overturns the
way in which the “current revolutions” may be deciphered.
• A forecast based on the clash of perceptions: how do Arabs perceive
Westerners, how do we perceive them, and above all, how does each of
us perceive world events?
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Essays
Gaïdz Minassian
Zones grises
Espaces dérégulés, zones de non-droit,
quand les Etats perdent le contrôle
Grey Zones
Deregulated Zones, Lawless Zones, When States Lose Control
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2011
PRICE: 20 EUR
224 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
They are expanding all over the surface of the globe, they destabilise the
State model, they rock those powers forced to negotiate with them, and
they stir the drums of war. The name “grey zone” alludes to the fact that
they straddle the borderline between the legal and the illegal, the tangible
and the imaginary, immediacy and distance. These grey zones, blends
of public spaces and neglected areas uncluttered by the slightest semblance of legal rules, are growing in number as societies contest State
supremacy and latch onto State failures.
They are springing up all over the planet, in rich countries and poor,
within authoritarian or democratic societies, and even at the gates of Western capital cities. The outskirts of certain urban pockets in developed countries are gradually turning into zones now devoid of the vital structures of
social and territorial cohesion, starting with local public services.
Are grey zones harbingers of chaos? At times they may bear the seeds
of war, but at others, they aspire to the virtues of legality and legitimacy.
Are States responsible for their propagation? All these issues are tackled
in this book divided into two parts: the first part focuses on theoretical
aspects of the very notion of “grey zones”, their links to the international
system, their sociogenesis and multiple facets; the second part, from a
more practical perspective, presents concrete examples.
THE AUTHOR
Gaïdz Minassian, holder of a doctorate in political science, is an associate researcher at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique and
teaches at Sciences Po. A journalist for lemonde.fr, he is also the author
of Caucase du sud, la nouvelle guerre froide (Autrement, 2007) and the
editor of Eurasie, au cœur de la stratégie mondiale (Autrement, 2011).
KEY SELLING POINTS
An endeavour to define and clearly present a phenomenon with an
impact on our liberty, our security and our future.
• A new perspective on grey zones that goes against the grain of the dominant trend in favour of their systematic eradication without understanding their social reality.
• A positive approach to a problem with encouraging prospects for the
reintegration of these social spaces.
• Explores concrete examples.
•
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Essays
Gaïdz Minassian
Eurasie, au cœur de la sécurité mondiale
Eurasia, in the Heart of Mondial Security
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 2011
PRICE: 23 EUR
310 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
A must-have to understand
how this zone straddling
Europe and Asia has become
more than ever a crucial
issue on global security.
Libération
Eurasia designates the stretch of land extending from Europe to Central
Asia. Why does this strategic space stand out in the way the world currently works?
The Eurasian zone fuels competition between powers (United States,
Russia, China, Turkey, EU) vying to control mineral wealth. But the
Eurasian space is not just a territory where the rivalries of powers are
played out. It is a sphere of markets in transition, societies in the process
of democratisation or under the strict surveillance of regimes in place
and finally, a socio-cultural arena featuring strong personalities, where
the culture variable also explains the nature of conflicts.
An emerging space, Eurasia remains ignored by the general public, or
else the object of dualistic approaches where the energy prism seems to sum
up everything – a reductive approach revealing a general lack of understanding of the world filing before our eyes. Energy supplies for Europe, peace
and security between powers (United States, Russia, EU, China), regional
rivalries (Iran, Turkey, Pakistan), an ongoing series of wars and conflicts...
Security, liberty and peace are at stake in this part of the world at this very
moment. This is precisely what this work demonstrates.
THE AUTHOR
Gaïdz Minassian, the editor of the work, has a doctorate in political science, and is a research associate at the Fondation pour la Recherche
Stratégique and a lecturer at Sciences Po. A journalist for monde.fr, he is
the author of Caucase du sud, la nouvelle guerre froide (Autrement, 2007).
With contributions from top specialists:
Hamit Bozarslan, Vicken Cheterian, Patrice Claude, Jean-Marie Dauger,
Laure Delcour, Arnaud Dubien, Vincent Duclert, Frédéric Encel,
Isabelle Facon, Adrien Fauve, Gaël Gaballand, Régis Genté, Richard
Giragossian, Frédérique Guérin, Annie Jafalian, Thierry Kellner, Marlène Laruelle, Juliette Le Doré, Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, Michel Marian, François Nicoullaud, Bernard Outtier, Sébastien Peyrouse, Edouard
Pfimlin, Jean-Christophe Romer, Dorothée Schmid, Sophie Shihab,
Clément Therme, Sophie Tournon, Charles Urjewicz, Laurent Vinatier.
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Contributions from top specialists (researchers from major French think
tanks on international relations), experts or foreign correspondents.
The first comprehensive reference work on a little-known zone, a
geopolitical pivot in the world of today and tomorrow.
• A bibliography, chronology, key figures and maps make this work into
a genuine tool.
•
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Essays
Hyacinthe Ravet
Musiciennes
Enquête sur les femmes et la musique
Female Musicians
An Investigation into Women and Music
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2011
PRICE: 22 EUR
336 PAGES
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The facts speak for themselves. The centre stage may feature wildly
acclaimed divas, adored female pop singers, or much-admired longhaired female pianists. But we never see symphony orchestras steered by
the batons of female conductors.
Females make up the bulk of students in music schools and conservatories, and there is no shortage of female amateur musicians and teachers. But music performance is one of those domains where the feminine
touch is the rarest.
How and since when have women become successful in music professions? And at the price of what difficulties in particular? What role
have they carved out for themselves today in this performance art that
some consider to be highly “masculine”?
Sociologist and musician Hyacinthe Ravet points out the extent to
which the definitions of “masculine” and “feminine” shape music career
paths and contribute to an evolving distribution of male and female
roles where high stakes nevertheless persist in terms of symbolism and
power. Can women be recognised as creators on the same par as men?
In this in-depth and exhilarating study, blending historical research, a
presentation of the current situation backed up by figures and detailed
interviews, the author reveals that music – omnipresent in our society
– speaks loudly about our hopes and reservations regarding “equality”
in all domains and at all levels.
THE AUTHOR
Hyacinthe Ravet is a sociologist, musician, and lecturer at the University Sorbonne-Paris-IV. She is also the author of numerous articles combining analysis of the sociology of the arts, work and gender.
KEY SELLING POINTS
•A
lively investigation presented in an upbeat style.
original subject.
• Ongoing topicality of male-female equality.
• An
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Essays
Raphaëlle Choël & Julie Rovéro-Carrez
Tokyo Sisters
Dans l’intimité des femmes japonaises
Tokyo Sisters
In the Intimacy of Japanese Women
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2010
PRICE: 17 EUR
200 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: ITALY, JAPAN
The city of Tokyo is presented here in the form of intimate chronicles
through more than 50 interviews with Japanese women. Shoes worn
out from striding down city streets, the streets themselves, observations,
whispered secrets, interviews, experiences, shared moments and notebook scribblings. 54 months in Tokyo, over 50 women interviewed:
married and single, housewives and businesswomen, femmes fatales and
submissive women; together they constitute a panel representing women
aged 15 to 60. With these testimonies, Raphaëlle Choël and Julie
Rovéro-Carrez seek to show the city of Tokyo through the eyes of its
inhabitants. Beyond clichés and preconceptions, these encounters covering issues as varied as fashion, gastronomy, art, the sex industry, religion, the education of children, the body and leisure activities invite
readers to penetrate the Japanese universe. An original angle that complements academic analyses.
THE AUTHORS
Raphaëlle Choël is a graduate of ESSEC (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences
Economiques et Commerciales – Advanced School of Economic and
Commercial Sciences) and the Political Science school in Paris. She
works as a journalist for television and the press, and is currently based
in London.
Julie Rovéro-Carrez organises contemporary art events and works
with the press.
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Essays
Christine Bard
Ce que soulève la jupe
Identités, transgressions, résistances
The Issues Raised by Skirts
Identities, Transgressions, Resistance
PUBLICATION DATE: MARCH 2010
PRICE: 17 EUR
176 PAGES
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It’s short, concise and to
the point. A small handbook
about feminism as we like it.
Grazia
A standard reference
tracing the history of women
and examined by
the feminist-looking
historian Christine Bard.
A work of great explanation.
Libération
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A brief history of the skirt since the 1960’s by a feminist historian. From
the suit skirt to the punk skirt, from the miniskirt to the kilt, worn to
seduce, to provoke, or to hide, Christine Bard ponders this controversial
garment and the claim for a new kind of freedom for men.
While the skirt was long endured and experienced as a way of enforcing femininity, it has been reclaimed, by women, but also by men, gay
and straight. A new feminine banner for some, an instrument of liberation for others.
Is the skirt necessarily a sign of submission to the male order? To resist
stigmatisation and sexism, why do certain girls go for the skirt, while others opt for trousers and other still the veil. And what of the skirt for men,
as proposed by Jean-Paul Gautier, for example? Straight-forward provocation, or a desire for equal opportunities? Clearly, the skirt and other sartorial questions are at the heart of the gender identity debate for a new
generation: the children and grandchildren of 68, straight, gay, bi, transvestites and transsexuals. Complex contemporary changes are analysed in
a witty, sharp and precise way. A lively, politically engaged text written in
the first person by a well-established historian.
THE AUTHOR
Christine Bard is a French historian. A university professor, she is also
the scientific coordinator of Musea, a website, or ‘virtual museum’ of
the history of women and gender, edited by the University of Angers.
Essays
Marc Hatzfeld
Les Lascars
Une jeunesse en colère
Rascals
The Youth in Anger
PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 2011
PRICE: 15 EUR
160 PAGES
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Juvenile transgression is not a new phenomenon. On the contrary, it
has been fundamental since the dawn of time: Eve and Adam’s fault, or
Romeo’s murderous passion, are some of the admirable acts which led
to emancipation. The usual speech concerning the ‘rising of violence
and antisocial behaviour amongst young people’ thus appears as a big
misunderstanding. It is bound to remain a vain dialogue, the outcome
of which is determined by fear, by a justifi ed worry for the future, and
by a doubt concerning the legitimacy of the law…
This book brings a philosophical and political signifi cance to the
stagnant debate about the way to deal with juvenile delinquency. Its
crafted style invites us to listen to the young rebels and fi nally convinces
us to do so. This original book helps to change mentalities. It is written
in a captivating style.
THE AUTHOR
Marc Hatzfeld is a sociologist and ethnologist. For a long time he has
accurately observed suburbs in France, but also in Japan, India, the Ivory
Coast… For all these subjects and for others, he enhances the fertility
of margins.
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Literature
Gaëlle Josse
Les Heures silencieuses
The Hours of Silence
PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 2011
PRICE: 13 EUR
144 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: ITALY
Extremely subtle,
Les Heures silencieuses
are truly entrancing.
Madame Figaro
Under a thin coat
of simplicity, this life
crumbles and moves us
deeply. A unique novel,
subtle and delicate.
L’Est républicain
A nice smell of extreme
freshness and odd serenity.
Le Matricule des anges
Delft, 1667. Behind the apparent calm of a Dutch interior scene, the intimate
vacillations of Magdalena van Beyeren.
Magdalena is the wife of Pieter van Beyeren, an administrator in the
Dutch East Indies Company. Born into a family of wealthy ship owners,
Magdalena is rigorous, a stickler for order and thrift, mistress of herself and
her hearth. She could have succeeded her father if only trade were not
reserved to men, and the place of women in the home. It is to an interior
space that she seems to withdraw. An interior where she was portrayed
from behind, at her harpsichord, near a window casting light on a succession of rooms exuding calm, on a painting of almost unreal charm produced by an artist of the time, Emanuel de Witt.
This decor holds secrets that are delivered in Magdalena’s diary. Her
disappointment in not being able to succeed her father who had no male
heir. Her meeting with Pieter. All the intimate cracks in her existence. One
memory oppresses her, fills her nights with anguish: the murder that she
witnessed as a child. And other misfortunes surrounding her. Her sister
Judith, who mopes at not being able to bear a child. Her daughters Catherina and Elisabeth, for whom Magdalena is mulling over delicate unions
to be arranged. Finally, her own fate as a wife when Pieter brutally decides
to renounce all fleshly relations with her so as not to risk losing her in childbirth. Intermingling with these personal anxieties is a narrative on the
efforts of a family of ship owners to preserve their wellbeing. “Order, moderation and work are ramparts against the predicaments of existence. This is
what we learn from childhood onwards. It is vain to believe this. Every day
that passes reminds me, as if I needed reminding, that the management of a
life is nothing like that of a stock of spices or porcelain.
What we endeavour to construct around us resembles the dikes that men
build to prevent the sea from submerging us. They are fragile edifices played
with by the elements. They always need to be strengthened or rebuilt. Less resistant than these is the heart of man, I fear.”
THE AUTHOR
Gaëlle Josse was born in 1960. Following studies in law, journalism, psychology, and a few years spent in New Caledonia, she now works as a writer
for a magazine in Paris and lives in the Paris region. She has published
poems in numerous journals and is the author of several poetry collections.
(http://gaellejosse.kazeo.com)
Les Heures silencieuses is her first novel.
KEY SELLING POINTS
• This superb portrayal of the Dutch Golden Age is nevertheless not a his-
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torical novel but rather a diary, the self-portrait of a woman.
• Balanced, precise, luminous, elegant writing: a text whose form is a perfect
match for the content.
• A true writer’s talent emerges in this faultless gem of a text.
Literature
Dominique Resch
Mots de tête
Marseille Schooldays
PUBLICATION DATE: AUGUST 2011
PRICE: 14 EUR
160 PAGES
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A hymn to teaching in those
so-called areas with a high
level of social problems.
Le Figaro littéraire
The everyday adventures in a high-school in the north of Marseille.
Dominique Resch follows the life of a teacher, himself, sometimes saying
“I”, sometimes “he”, depending on whether he writes from his own perspective or that of his pupils, Tonio, Nadir, Jérémy and others… The
tone is lively, exuberant, and full of humour. The result: moving,
sparkling, jubilant!
Throughout the text, Dominique Resch presents moments of grace,
little nuggets from his life as a teacher. He shares with readers the excitement of the clashes between football teams OM and PSG that pace the
class’s life, the awakening of his taste buds thanks to Hafoussouate’s
samosas, the misguided school inspector thrown out of the establishment by a colleague, the rehearsals of Cyrano de Bergerac repeatedly interrupted by Tonio, a bicycle race during an excursion to Aix which ends
with the teenagers hurtling onto a film set while Charlotte Gainsbourg
is in front of the camera…
While his pupils make fun of the French language, Dominique Resch
has fun with it, hilariously taking words apart.
THE AUTHOR
Dominique Resch is a teacher of French, history, geography and civics
in a vocational high-school in the north of Marseille.
Already published: Les Poules (Transbordeurs, 2006; Anota, 2009);
Pédiluve et bénitier (Transbordeurs, 2007; Anota, 2009); Le Pouce d’un
autre (Anota, 2009).
KEY SELLING POINTS
• The previous works by Dominique Resch have been hailed by the
press, namely by Olivia de Lamberterie in Elle.
• Finally, a book from a teacher who, despite tensions and daily turbulence,
loves his students and profession. His hope is truly heart-warming!
• Quirky in tone.
• A savvy combination of humour and tenderness.
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Literature
Jean-Paul Wenzel
Tout un homme
A Complete Man
PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 2011
PRICE: 12 EUR
104 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
The departure from one’s country, the crossing, the arrival in France,
Lorraine, the cold, the mines, the first descent to the bottom of the pit,
the fear, the solidarity, the parties, the quarrels, the accidents, the noise,
the dust, the children, the women, the strikes...
His name is Ahmed. At the age of sixteen, he left the Kabylie of his
birth and set off for France. The year was 1963. This was the start of an
epic adventure leading him from Algiers to Marseille, from Marseille to
Paris, from Paris to Lorraine, where he would meet the sparkling gaze
of Leïla, daughter of Mohamed, a pit worker arriving in Lorraine in
1947 who would find Ahmed a job at the mine.
Their names are Saïd and Omar, two inseparable friends from Assoul,
a village at the south of Morocco. The year was 1973. They were almost
19 years old. One day, a rumour spread throughout the surrounding villages: “44 francs a day, free housing, France is hiring workers!”. A few
thousand young people gathered in Ouarzazate where they waited for one
of the colonial old hands recruited by the Houillères Coalmines to reach
them and, with a nod of head, place a green stamp on their chest or arm,
a crucial door-opener for accessing this “Eldorado”.
Ahmed, Mohamed, Leila, Saïd, Omar and others, are fictional characters invented by J.-P. Wenzel to serve his narrative. The tumultuous,
comical or tragic episodes in their lives are enriched by encounters made
by the author in Lorraine and interviews he conducted with North
African miners and their families.
THE AUTHOR
Actor (he has notably worked with Peter Brook), author and stage director, Jean-Paul Wenzel regularly intervenes as a stage director in acting
schools, chiefly the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique de Paris,
the École Supérieure d’Art Dramatique du TNS, the École du Théâtre
du Nord in Lille, the Conservatoire de Genève, the École de la Comédie
de St-Etienne, and the École du TNB in Rennes (where he was a pedagogical director between1995 and 2000).
KEY SELLING POINTS
• The writing of J.-P. Wenzel is enhanced by the considerable energy and
evocative power of the words of these men and women.
• A stage version of these stories is currently touring Lorraine. It has met
with success, and a national production is envisaged in 2011.
• A text of great humanity, strength and sensitivity.
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Literature
Eugène
Dans un livre, j’ai lu que…
I Read in a Book That…
PUBLICATION DATE: MARCH 2011
PRICE: 10 EUR
144 PAGES
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To be devoured with
a greedy curiosity.
The author examines
a wide range of fields.
24 Heures
“Here are hundreds of stories about books gleaned from books. We learn
of an itinerant library where books are arranged in alphabetical order
on four hundred camels, the delicately over-dimensioned ego of Victor
Hugo who chose as his motto “EGO HUGO”, newspapers printed on rubber, the only text written on Jesus during his lifetime, the environmental
catastrophe triggered by a philanthropic society that decided to introduce to the United States all the birds mentioned by Shakespeare, as
well as the common link between Stephan Zweig, James Joyce, Thomas
Mann, Bertolt Brecht and… Lenin.
Need it be pointed out that all these are true stories?
A voyage full of humour and erudition to the land of words”.
A collection of literary miscellanea to browse through: anecdotes on
wordplays, surrealistic rapprochements, inverted aphorisms, insightful
and uncanny observations, like a pile of pebbles in surprising shapes
garnered from the path of books... Surprises on every page!
THE AUTHOR
The author is “Eugène”. Swiss writer Eugène Meiltz signs this book by
his first name alone. Under his full name, he has chiefly published
Pamukalie, pays fabuleux – the first guide on a non-existent country –,
(Autrement, 2003) and Voyage en Abécédie, (Autrement Jeunesse, 2001).
KEY SELLING POINTS
•A
patiently assembled collection of tiny reading pleasures to share.
• A book for all book lovers, about the pleasure of words, reading, literature…
• A competition open to the public has been launched, with a media
partner: participants are invited to send their own anecdotes following
the same style; entries chosen by Eugène will make up a “tome 2”, to be
published in 2012, and signed by the names of participants.
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History
Pierre-Jérôme Biscarat, Jean-François Forges
Photos: Léa Eouzan | Cartography: Madeleine Benoît-Guyod
Guide historique d’Auschwitz
Historical Guide to Auschwitz
PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 2011
PRICE: 22 EUR
288 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
A new and clever way
to hand down the memory
of this horrendous place.
Le Point
The concentration camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Monowitz and their
kommandos, along with the Birkenau extermination centre, are wellknown historical elements branded on the collective memory. While
some of these places are nonetheless disappearing with the passing of
time and the development of Poland’s society and economy, others are
being restored and marked with monuments and museums.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors go to Auschwitz. By
exploring the location and buildings, suggesting itineraries and, in the
last part, evoking the traces of the Jewish community of Krakow, this
book intends to afford a better understanding of Auschwitz and the
images we see of it. Indeed, only a rigorously factual history can ensure
the preservation of its memory and accompany the irreplaceable humanity of survivors’ stories.
15 maps were drawn and 50 photos taken especially for this book,
which also includes 20 archival documents and a dozen extracts of personal accounts.
THE AUTHORS
Pierre-Jérôme Biscarat is a member of the pedagogical service of the
Maison d’Izieu (Izieu House) and of the scientifi c council of the Mémorial de Caen (Caen Memorial).
Jean-François Forges teaches history. A member of the Pedagogy
and Training commission of the Mémorial de la Shoah (Shoah Memorial), he makes frequent interventions on the problem of transmitting
the memory and the history of the concentration camp regime.
With a preface by Simone Veil and a foreword by Piotr Cywinski,
director of the Musée d’État d’Auschwitz.
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History
Régis Schlagdenhauffen
Preface by Annette Wieviorka
Triangle rose
La persécution nazie des homosexuels et sa mémoire
Pink Triangle
The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals and Its Memory
PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 2011
PRICE: 23 EUR
312 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
For the first time,
an uncompromising overall
view of the deportations
of homosexuals with scientific
precise data.
Têtu
Since the 1970s, the deportation of the homosexuals has become a subject of commemoration and assertion of its identity for the homosexual
community. In New York, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and other places,
the pink triangle is brandished during demonstrations to commemorate
the martyrs of the group, in remembrance of what happened, or to
defend homosexual rights.
The want of recognition was often taken the wrong way by the authorities and some of the former deported people such as Jews or political men…
This work relates the history of the homosexual deportation and of its commemoration. In Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam, Régis Schlagdenhauffen has
worked on deportation archives, attended commemorations, investigated
on monuments construction, financing and conception; he has met former
and actual political actors and associative activists.
THE AUTHOR
Régis Schlagdenhauffen has a doctorate in sociology, and he is professor
of sociology at the University de Strasbourg. He wrote a thesis on commemoration of homosexual victims of Nazism in the Western Europe.
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History
Louis-Georges Tin
L’invention de la culture hétérosexuelle
The Invention of the Heterosexual Culture
PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER 2008
PRICE: 20 EUR
208 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: ITALY, SPAIN, ARGENTINA,
KOREA, POLAND AND UK/USA
A springboard to outshine
conventional views.
Le Monde des livres
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From the very first representations in the songs of the troubadours, from
the resistance of the men of the church, through the hierarchy of sacred
love and profane love, to medical treatises on ‘love sickness’, the values
of the Middle Ages were marked by ‘homosociality’.
It seems to have been with courtly love that the first signs of heterosexual love appeared in Europe, when the loving relationship between
man and woman was established as an ideal to be reached. From then
on, classic tragedy and, over the centuries, novels, popular theatre, cinema and advertising, have promoted heterosexual love. Religion, medicine and philosophy have also shifted to adopt the heterosexual model
as the dominant one. The author retraces this long evolution, inviting
us to rediscover culture, focusing on the way it has presented loving relationships between men and women.
THE AUTHOR
Louis-Georges Tin was the editorial director of the Homophobia Dictionary published in 2003 by PUF. Since 2004 he has been the IDAHO
Committee president. He is also the director of the Gay and Lesbian
Archives at the Paris Town Hall and he directs the series “Sexes en tous
genres” published by Autrement.
Atlas – Geography & History
Aurélien Delpirou & Stéphane Mourlane
Cartography: Aurélie Boissière | Preface by Marc Lazar
Atlas de l’Italie contemporaine
En quête d’unité
An Atlas of Contemporary Italy
In Quest of Unity
PUBLICATION DATE: MARCH 2011
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
A precious atlas with
a great number of diagrams
and maps.
La Croix
Understanding a country that is both close yet little known, one that generates
potent images and countless clichés… and perhaps an attraction/repulsion
dialectic as well… The main theme of this work is Italy in its plurality.
From the buon paesaggio to the mafia, from film to architecture, from
cuisine to soccer, from Rome to Venice, from Sicily to Tuscany… Italy fascinates and intrigues. But what often dominates minds is its past, its cultural
heritage and the clichés surrounding it. This work thus endeavours to break
free from traditional representations of Italy to offer insight into one of the
founding countries of the Treaty of Rome, whose role in Europe nevertheless
remains paradoxical. To develop the complexity of this country, a long-term
historical and geographical approach is privileged, assembling different points
of view and varying temporal and spatial scales.
The major axes of this atlas are Italy’s: belated and incomplete unification
(the tormented formation of a Nation and its civic culture; a State caught
between marginalisation and consolidation; a contested but lively and evolving
democracy); brutal and unfinished modernisation (the shift to a developed
yet unbalanced industrial society followed by a post-industrial phase of stagnation); demographic and socio-economic mutations translated by profound
territorial restructuration; frequently copied model, chiefly in terms of local
development, and its simultaneous status as one of the “poor pupils” of the
EU due to the sluggishness of its demography and economy; unresolved problems: the persistence of a structural cleavage between the North and South;
the weight of organised crime; the fragile legitimacy of the State.
THE AUTHORS
Aurélien Delpirou holds the agrégation qualification in geography and is a
lecturer at the Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris (Université Paris-Est Créteil). A
former scholarship holder of the École Française de Rome, he is notably the
author of a thesis on sustainable urban development policies in Rome.
Stéphane Mourlane holds the agrégation qualification and a doctorate
in history. He is a lecturer at the Université de Provence and a researcher in
the UMR Telemme at the Maison Méditérannéenne des Sciences de
l’Homme (Aix-en-Provence). Stéphane Mourlane has co-edited Le Football
dans nos sociétés (Autrement, 2006) and is co-author of Europe. Mémoires profondes (Autrement, 2008) and Nice cosmopolite (Autrement, 2010).
KEY SELLING POINTS
A long-term historical and geographical approach, assembling different
points of view and varying temporal and spatial scales.
• In March, the 150th anniversary of Italian unity (the proclamation of the
Kingdom of Italy) will be celebrated.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Michel Deshaies
Cartography: Mélanie Marie
Atlas de l’Allemagne
Les contrastes d’une puissance en mutation
The Atlas of Germany
The Contrasts of an Evolving Power
PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER 2011
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
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As a federal state whose unity was recently re-established, Germany is
an intriguing country, based on a long history of territorial fragmentation. Should this difference be pegged as the source of the difficulty the
French perceive in comprehending Germany whose economic performance they gaze upon enviously while looking down upon their neighbour with clear-cut condescension?
As Europe’s leading economic power, Germany has, since 1990,
acquired a central position and growing influence on the international
scene, on the basis of its technological assets and its scientific know-how.
While the “made in Germany” label retains its prestige and generates
record exports, Germany is nevertheless confronted with sizeable challenges. Setting out to be exemplary in environmental matters, the country must come to grips with an energy transition and multiple
environmental problems. Afflicted for over thirty years by falling birth
rates, the German population is undergoing a striking demographic
decline matched with an acceleration of ageing. In a country where prosperity is founded on the dynamism of key economic sectors, more and
more wealth is poorly distributed and a growing share of the population
is affected by unemployment and poverty.
In spite of financial transfers carried out since reunification to heal
the East-West fracture, the chasm still subsists. A significant divide also
exists in western Germany, between northern regions dominated by old
traditional industrial basins, now stagnant or declining, and the more
dynamic Länder (states) in the south. Yet the strongest inequalities are
those separating metropolises from rural regions, a phenomenon increasingly reproduced in other large cities.
More than ever, Germany thus stands out as a country with multiple
features where a regained political unity comes headlong against increasingly widening social divisions.
THE AUTHOR
Michel Deshaies is a professor of geography at the Université de Nancy.
His research focuses on energy-environment relations, mining exploration and industrial landscapes, as well as recent evolutions in the geography of Germany and Central Europe.
KEY SELLING POINTS
•A
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rich synthesis.
• Numerous variations in scale providing an inside view of Germany,
whether in relation to its Länder or cities.
• An insight into issues with bearing on the future of Germany and Europe.
Atlas – Geography & History
Fabrice Argounes, Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard
& Luc Vacher
Cartography: Cécile Marin
Atlas de l’Océanie
Continent d’îles, laboratoire du futur
An Atlas of Oceania
A Continent of Islands, an Outlook of the Future
PUBLICATION DATE: MARCH 2011
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
From microstates capitalising on their isolation, from a vast and discontinuous space making up a political and cultural ensemble... to the antipodes
of idyllic lagoons. Oceania is the “other end of the Earth” par excellence, a
space that conjures up all kinds of images: antipodean maritime territories,
an “elsewhere” that has long fed the imaginations of Westerners (deserted
islands, Polynesian women, scientific expeditions and refuges for mutineers),
a black hole (military bases and nuclear tests)...
This book starts off with a “down under” map reversing north and
south, east and west... An undertaking requiring a pooling of knowledge
in geography, history, political science, as well as cartography, allowing
for changes of scale, measurements, quantifications, and comparisons
to produce an entirely new image.
Here, sundry microstates are dominated by Australia and New
Zealand, the region’s guarantors of sound governance. For Oceania has
been the target of all types of lusts and conquests on the part of Westerners, today superseded by Asian powers, in military strategic domains
as well as in demand for natural resources.
Contingent on the maritime, remote and insular nature of this territory featuring an astonishing interplay of scales are its logic, challenges
and strategies...
THE AUTHORS
Fabrice Argounes is a politologist and researcher, a member of the SPIRITCNRS research laboratory and a lecturer in the history of institutions
and political science at the Université Paris 13–Nord. He specialises in
the foreign policy of Australia and New Zealand within the Asia-Pacific
region. Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard is a historian and lecturer at INALCO.
Her research focuses on the history of the relations of France with its
Oceanic territories and the regional and international issues of the South
Pacific. Luc Vacher is a geographer and lecturer at the Université de La
Rochelle. He researches the development of tourism in peripheral spaces,
particularly the north of Australia. He is in charge of the cartography laboratory (CTIG) of the Université de La Rochelle.
KEY SELLING POINTS
• No equivalent (the only academic reference work dates back to over
20 years ago).
• A legendary yet little-understood reality.
• Original angle and data: maps, history, terrain.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Mark Bailoni & Delphine Papin
Cartography: Eugénie Dumas
Atlas géopolitique du Royaume-Uni
Les nouveaux défis d’une vieille puissance
The Geopolitical Atlas of the United Kingdom
The New Challenges of an Old Leading Power
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2009
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
On the eve of the 2012 Olympic Games, the United Kingdom has to
face up to several challenges. Its military involvement on several fronts,
standing by the United States, has weakened its image of an incontrovertible power on the international scene. A major financial centre, the
UK will have to innovate in order to remain a global economic power.
The UK is a multinational state, the stability of which rests on relations
between the different national components. This atlas presents a
panorama of geopolitical issues in this country.
THE AUTHORS
Mark Bailoni, graduated at the French Institute of Geopolitics with a
doctorate. He is a specialist in questions of internal geopolitics and the
United Kingdom. He is a university lecturer at Nancy University and a
researcher at CERPA.
Delphine Papin, graduated at the French Institute of Geopolitics with
a doctorate. He is a specialist in multicultural questions at United Kingdom; she teaches Geography at Sciences Po. in Paris.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Frédéric Encel
Cartography : Alexandre Nicolas
Atlas géopolitique d’Israël
Aspects d’une démocratie en guerre
The Geopolitical Atlas of Israel
Aspects of a Democracy in War
PUBLICATION DATE : MARCH 2008
PRICE : 15 EUR
80 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
The author studies all aspects
of a “democracy in war”
providing a flood of very
nice maps from the past,
present and the likely future
matched with comments
full of information, figures
and precise details.
Marianne
Although small in terms of its size and population, Israel is one of the
most researched states in the world. In spite of this, there was no
updated geopolitical atlas of Israel until today. The Hebrew state is
mentioned in several atlases, but solely within the context of the IsraeliPalestinian confl ict, or that of biblical history, and in both cases, no
longer accurate anymore. Even the atlases by Martin Gilbert available
in English were made over ten years ago. The complexity of the IsraeliArab situation combined to the ongoing changes occurring both in the
Israeli society and army and the Palestinian territories required a contemporary geopolitical atlas. Frederic Encel offers a fresh and in-depth
perspective on Israel and its relationships with the rest of the world.
THE AUTHOR
Frédéric Encel is a Doctor in geopolitics, a research director at the
French Institute of Geopolitics, a Professor in international relations at
ESG and a lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies at Rennes. His
publications include: Géopolitique du sionisme (Armand Colin, 2006)
and L’Art de la guerre par l’exemple (Flammarion, 2000) rights sold to
Italy, Spain and Romania.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Jean-Paul Chagnollaud & Sid-Ahmed Souiah
Cartography: Madeleine Benoît-Guyot
Atlas des Palestiniens
Un peuple en quête d’un Etat
An Atlas of the Palestinians
A People Seeking a State
PUBLICATION DATE: FEBRUARY 2011
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
None of the details of the
conflict has been neglected.
Le Monde diplomatique
The history and daily, geographical and political reality of a people in
quest of a State.
This atlas recounts the history of a people who, since the dismantling
of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate in 1922, have sought
to become masters of their destiny by demanding a State on their own
territory: Palestine. Decades later, this objective has not been attained
and even seems more inaccessible than ever. Since 1948, over one half of
all Palestinians have lived outside their country, many in precarious
refugee camp conditions, whilst the other half have been subject to occupation, colonisation and, since 2006 in Gaza, an embargo.
Today, all prospects of peace seem remote, with the balance of power
working against Palestinians despite international support in their favour.
Through a process of systematic colonisation and the construction of a
wall stretching as far as the heart of the West Bank, Israeli strategy aims
to fragment and erode a space on which it is increasing difficult to establish
a viable Palestinian State disposing of true territorial continuity. This situation aggravates the exclusion of an entire people group which, in spite
of international law recognising the legitimacy of its aspiration to become
a State alongside Israel, is thus forced to live in dramatic conditions.
THE AUTHORS
Jean-Paul Chagnollaud is a political science professor at the Université
de Cergy-Pontoise and editor of the international journal Confluences
Méditerranée. Sid-Ahmed Souiah is a geography professor at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise. He is a researcher in the MRTE laboratory (CergyPontoise) and the Groupe de Recherche sur le Maghreb et le
Moyen-Orient (GREMAMO, SEDET, Paris 7-Denis Diderot).
With the collaboration of Pierre Blanc, a geopolitics researcher and lecturer at the CIHEAM who carries out missions in Palestinian territories.
Already published:
J.-P. Chagnollaud and Sid-Ahmed Souiah have already collaborated on
two works: Les Frontières au Moyen-Orient (L’Harmattan, 2004) and
with P. Blanc, Palestine, la dépossession d’un territoire (L’Harmattan,
2008). Jean-Paul Chagnollaud is also the author of Quelques idées simples
sur l’Orient compliqué (Ellipses, 2008).
KEY SELLING POINTS
• The only work to take as its main theme the history and current situation
of the Palestinian people, and not just the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
people and a topic unceasingly in the spotlight of current events.
•A
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Atlas – Geography & History
Antoine Brès & Thierry Sanjuan
Cartography: Madeleine Benoît-Guyod | Photos: Cyrus Cornut
Atlas de Paris
The Atlas of Paris
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2011
PRICE: 20 EUR
88 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
Is Paris, the world’s leading tourist destination, a museum city today? A
factory responsible for producing a “sustainable” capital that must continue to sustain its presence...
Paris is characterised by its longevity. Like London, and even more so
than Moscow or Berlin, it is a city that has managed to endure, to extend,
to adapt to the growing diversity of its activities and populations, to
impose a metropolitan emphasis without suffering any historical rupture.
This constant renewal of itself is not only due to its role as political capital
granted to it early on and never truly contested, but also due to its population’s capacity to meet challenges, whether internal, raised by its riverside location and extremely high-density urbanisation, or external, as the
city is a major intersection for Western Europe.
Its future – if it is to be spared a “Viennese fate” – relies on the reaffirmation of sustainable town planning that no longer reasons in terms
of a centre enclosed by a peripheral ring road, but in terms of the whole
of the Île-de-France region, also known as the Paris Basin. Current
debates on the Greater Paris region, while bringing back on the agenda
old ambitions and issues, are even more lively today, given that the way
in which France’s only genuine megalopolis development in globalisation networks will be decisive for French society.
THE AUTHORS
Antoine Brès is an architect-town planner, holder of a PhD from the
University Paris-I, an associate professor in city development and planning studies at Magistère (advanced graduate) level, and co-manager of
the town planning agency Brès-Mariolle.
Thierry Sanjuan is a geographer, a professor at Université Paris-I, and
manager of UMR PRODIG. A specialist in urban geography, he is in
charge of the Atlas/Mégapoles collection at Autrement. He is editor of
Les Grands hôtels en Asie for Publications de la Sorbonne, and is also the
author of Atlas de Shanghai and Atlas de la Chine.
Both have been running, in collaboration with Tongji University
(Shanghai) since 2006, a research programme on “The street in China:
evolutions in street-side residency”.
KEY SELLING POINTS
•A
concrete and scholarly look at the making of a city.
• More than a tourist guide to the French capital, this book offers an
understanding of the city.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Antonine Ribardière & Bernard Tallet
Cartography: A. Le Fur | Photos: J. Sessini
Atlas de Mexico
The Atlas of Mexico City
PUBLICATION DATE: FEBRUARY 2011
PRICE: 20 EUR
88 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
Overpopulated, polluted, violent… a symbol of urban explosion, situated
at over 2,000 metres altitude, this “monsteropolis” needs to find a means
to keep its organisation and leadership in control.
In Mexico City, temporary housing zones exist alongside enclosed
patrolled districts. The wealth of businessman Carlos Slim recently exceeded
that of Bill Gates despite his country’s alarming results on poverty indexes.
Following the ruptures of the 1980s underscored by the 1985 earthquake,
Mexico City has seemingly left behind its status as the largest Third World
city to hitch up to that of an international metropolis.
The winning of this rank supposes a reconfiguration of urban landscapes and economic activities. But increasingly often, the future is envisioned in terms of Greater Mexico City: Mexico City itself and the cities
surrounding it over a span of 100 to 150 kilometres (Puebla-Tlaxcala,
Cuernavaca, Toluca,…): does this change in scale translate the fantasy of
“megalopolisation”, following the example of the megalopolises in northeast United States? Or does it derive from a desire to meet the contradictions of the urban expansion of the Valley of Mexico? From the scale of a
world city, to Greater Mexico or its historic centre, the authors point
towards updates in developments (water, transport) and the interplay of
dependencies, underlining the uncertain future of a historical icon.
THE AUTHORS
Bernard Tallet, a geography professor at the Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne, researches development issues in Africa and Mexico in the
PRODIG research laboratory. He has lived in Mexico City (2002-2006)
in the context of a research programme in Mexico.
Antonine Ribardière, a geography lecturer at the Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne, researches socio-spatial inequalities in the urban
milieu in the PRODIG research laboratory.
Jérôme Sessini, a reporter for Gamma and then L’Œil Public, covers
international news and focuses on violence in post-civil war Central American countries. His work on the southern border of Mexico, “Mexique, fin
du rêve américain”, was nominated in 2006 for the magazine category of
the Visa d’Or Prize.
Already published: Shanghai, New York, Moscow.
To be published: Seoul, Paris, London, Istanbul…
KEY SELLING POINTS
• A fascinating supplement to tourist guides for a coveted destination.
• Unique and updated data (maps of districts, streets, etc.).
• A case study for all those interested in the phenomenon of megalopolises.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Valérie Gelézeau
Photojournalist: Cathy Rémy | Cartography: Claire Levasseur
Atlas de Séoul
The Atlas of Seoul
PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER 2011
PRICE: 20 EUR
88 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
This geostrategic analysis of Seoul presents the city as an avant-garde
megalopolis model.
On its way to becoming a pivot of emerging Asia, the mega-city of
Seoul bears the traits of budding powers: innovation as well as demographic, economic and cultural explosions (in comparison with “older”
cities in the region such as Shanghai, Hong Kong or Tokyo). As the capital of a divided country and at the head of an urban area holding over
20 million inhabitants, Seoul occupies a strategic geopolitical role: it is
an outpost of the West in the face of China, North Korea and Russia,
substituting a crisis-stricken Japan. It is also a cultural centre whose
influence dominates and ripples throughout the East, for the Korean
wave known as hallyu washes over films, TV, music, pop culture…
The book features a wide range of landscapes in maps and photos: the
“megaplexes”, large residential ensembles for over 3,000 households; the
central business districts and cutting-edge industry; large international
hotels (a major cultural phenomenon in Asia); markets, department stores
and shopping malls; foreign communities (French, Chinese, American);
the innovative developments along the Han River; tourism with sea and
ski resorts and golf courses; poverty and the homeless.
THE AUTHOR
Valérie Gelézeau is a lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (EHESS) and director of the Centre for Korean Studies. She
has already published Séoul, ville géante, cités radieuses (2003, Prix Francis
Garnier de la Société de Géographie), a work that inspired a related
book on the development of megaplexes throughout South Korea (La
République des appartements, 2007). In 2005, the CNRS awarded her a
bronze medal for her research. Since 2006, she has been researching the
border between the two Koreas and also North Korea.
KEY SELLING POINTS
• An
author recognised as an expert on Korea.
International current affairs: border conflicts with North Korea,
relations with China and Japan today.
• A textbook case as far as emerging powers go.
• A stunning photo report that is both original and comprehensive.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Bertrand Barré & Bernadette Mérenne-Schoumaker
Cartography: Anne Bailly
Atlas des énergies mondiales
Un développement équitable et propre est-il possible ?
An Atlas of Global Energy
Is Ethical and Clean Development Possible?
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 2011
PRICE: 19 EUR
96 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: TURKEY
An analysis of current production and future consumption of fossil, nuclear
and renewable energy for a better future for us all.
No human activity can be undertaken without a minimum of energy.
Differences in access to energy account for the enormous and intolerable
disparities between regions on our planet. While developed countries can
limit their energy consumption without affecting the quality of life of their
citizens, for the majority of humans, the needs for development, and thus,
for energy, remain immense. Energy – whether talking about coal, gas,
petrol, nuclear, hydraulic or renewable forms – cannot be generated without pollution, so the way we produce and use energy weighs more and
more heavily upon our environment – all the more so as the world’s population continues to grow. The degradation of the environment threatens
to backfire against humans, with the most impoverished in the frontline.
It is time to act.
This atlas helps readers to understand different energy issues at the heart
of the dilemma underlying the 21st century: how can the development of
our societies be reconciled with environmental restrictions?
THE AUTHORS
Bertrand Barré has devoted over forty years to working in numerous countries in the energy sector and geopolitical research. Though a nuclear energy
specialist, his expertise far exceeds this niche. Retired from the CEA, a scientific adviser of AREVA, and an emeritus professor of the Institut National
des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires, he continues to be a member of a
number of learned societies and international scientific committees.
Bernadette Mérenne-Schoumaker has always divided her time
between fundamental and applied research and the teaching of economic
geography, the didactics of geography, and more recently, university pedagogy. A specialist in the localisation of economic activities and territorial
development, she has published over 310 books and articles. She is currently a guest professor at the Université de Liège and an adviser for various
Belgian and international groups.
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Spotlight on debated issues: biofuels, the future of nuclear energy, electric
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cars, clean coal, the real potential of renewable energy.
• A complete overhaul, developing the topics that concern citizens: energy
and transport, energy and urban planning, energy and consumption.
• Zoom on inequalities between countries in energy access and the major
issue of sustainable development, a current affairs topic studied from lower
secondary school onwards.
Atlas – Geography & History
Bruno Tertrais
Cartography: Alexandre Nicolas
Atlas mondial du nucléaire
Civil et militaire
A World Atlas of Nuclear Technology
Civilian and Military
PUBLICATION DATE: MARCH 2011
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: JAPAN
Nuclear technology is making a big comeback. The preoccupations
relating to energy supplies and global warming have awakened an interest in nuclear-powered electricity. In the United States, Europe, China
and India, programmes have been relaunched. At the same time, on the
military front, nuclear deterrence strategy is still at the core of the security policies of major powers including France.
Atlas mondial du nucléaire is unique in its genre. Its objective is to allow
a wide public to familiarise itself with all issues relating to every aspect of
nuclear technology: civilian applications (including electricity production
and medicine) as well as military usages (naval propulsion, weapons). Taking neither an indulgent nor a melodramatic stance, Bruno Tertrais provides measured answers to essential questions in a domain still overly
dominated by secrecy and a lack of transparency. Who does what in the
nuclear field in France? Is a Chernobyl-type accident possible in Europe?
Do we take risks by exporting nuclear reactors to Middle Eastern countries? Weighing up the costs, risks and advantages of this technology and
its use, the atlas indicates why it is possible to erect solid technical and
legal barriers between civilian and military nuclear applications.
THE AUTHOR
Bruno Tertrais is a political scientist and senior research fellow at the
Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS). In 2007-2008, he was
a committee member of both the French Whitepaper on Defence and
National Security and the French Whitepaper on Foreign and European
Policy. He has previously been a special assistant to the director of strategic affairs at the French Ministry of Defence (1993-2001), a visiting
research fellow at the RAND Corporation (1995-1996), and the director of the Civilian Affairs Committee of the NATO Assembly (19901993). Bruno Tertrais is the author of L’Arme nucléaire (PUF, “Que
Sais-Je?” collection, 2008), Le Marché noir de la bombe (Buchet-Chastel,
2009), Atlas militaire et stratégique (Autrement, 2008), and Dictionnaire
des enjeux internationaux (Autrement, 2006).
KEY SELLING POINTS
• The first atlas to examine nuclear technology and its diverse facets:
technological developments, civilian usages and military applications.
• A specialist author who has already published prolifically on the issue.
• A focus on news-making hotspots: Pakistan, Iran and North Korea.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Yvette Veyret & Renaud Le Goix
Cartography: Aurélie Boissière
Atlas des villes durables
L’Europe est-elle un modèle?
The Atlas of Sustainable Cities
Is Europe a Model?
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2011
PRICE: 17 EUR
88 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
Setting a city on the track of sustainable development is first and foremost
a European project, thanks to the Aalborg Charter signed in 1994. This
Charter demonstrates the attention paid by the European Union, various
NGOs and urban players, to the issue of cities, homes to over 75% of the
European population. But is Europe a model to be followed?
The start of the atlas recalls various utopias and urban experiences
(garden cities, new cities) visible on the European continent. Despite
this past, some cities still stand a long way off from sustainable development. The way towards sustainability can be broken down into sectors: waste processing, nature in the city, risk management, new forms
of mobility, new housing, the introduction of ecodistricts. But is the
alignment of these different sectorial approaches enough for making a
sustainable city? What are the contradictions within these models, in
terms of inequalities, centralities and equity?
THE EDITORS
Yvette Veyret, a geographer, teaches at the University of Nanterre-Paris-X.
She has already co-edited Atlas des développements durables (2008), and
written Développements durables, tous les enjeux en 12 leçons, both published by Autrement.
Renaud Le Goix, a geographer and lecturer at the University Paris-IPanthéon-Sorbonne, is the author of books including Villes et mondialisation (Ellipses, 2005).
THE AUTHORS
All geographers, they are specialists of each of the cities or town-planning
sectors in question. Some of the authors have already contributed to
Atlas des développements durables: Jeanne-Marie Amat-Roze, Jean-Paul
Amat, Olivier Amat, Paul Arnould, Michel Deshaies, Fabrizio
Maccaglia, Martine Tabeaud…
KEY SELLING POINTS
• A topical subject, given that initiatives such as soft mobility and green
zones have been introduced in numerous municipalities.
• Many studies from European countries, with comparisons of objectives
and on-the-ground initiatives.
• Focus on the “drawbacks” of certain projects reputed to be clean and
ecological, such as the London BedZED; the contradiction between sustainable city discourse and obvious inequalities surrounding ecodistricts
and town-centre renovation.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Jean-Paul Charvet
Cartography: Claire Levasseur
Atlas de l’agriculture
Comment pourra-t-on nourrir le monde en 2050 ?
The Atlas of agriculture
How Can We Feed the World in 2050?
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2010
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: ITALY
A series of very good
diagrams with an especially
pleasant variety of views.
The good balance between
descriptions and issues
along with the sake of
a clear presentation are
highlighted by the good
quality of maps design.
Alternatives économiques
In 2008, hunger riots spotlighted how globalised and fragile food and
agriculture have become. Agriculture round the world spans very different sizes of farms, from a vast number of subsistence micro-plots to
the giant enterprises of agricultural capitalism. Between 1960 and 2000,
the number of people the planet had to feed increased by 3 billion. From
2000 to 2050, the number of mouths to be fed is due to increase by 3
billion again, while 1 billion people currently suffer from chronic undernourishment. Can we produce more while protecting the environment?
This question is covered in detail by Jean-Paul Charvet, who also
explains what solutions start to be implemented. Specific cases have been
selected from the world’s ‘heavyweights’: China, India, the United
States, Brazil and the European Union.
THE AUTHOR
Jean-Paul Charvet, national correspondent for the Académie d’Agriculture de France (French Agriculture Academy) is Emeritus Professor
of Agricultural and Rural Geography at Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La
Défense University, where he is also a member of the Laboratoire Géographie Comparée des Nords et des Suds (North-South Comparative
Geography Laboratory).
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Atlas – Geography & History
Gilles Fumey & Olivier Etcheverria
Map-making: Madeleine Benoit-Guyod
Preface: Jean-Robert Pitte | Postface: Michel Bras
Atlas mondial des cuisines et gastronomies
The World Atlas of Cooking and Gastronomy
Gourmand World Cookbook Award of Stockholm
PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER 2009
PRICE: 17 EUR
88 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: SPAIN, TURKEY, ITALY, TAIWAN
Fully made of appealing
notes, you can nicely leaf
through the atlas at random.
Le Nouvel Observateur
A real gourmet geography of the world! As well as 100 maps and brand
new infographics, The World Atlas of Cooking and Gastronomy examines
ingredients and eating customs, decoding the dreaded globalisation of
gastronomy. The globalisation of the world in terms of food is analysed
in detail. This new edition comes with a supplement dedicated to major
cuisines of the world, from Asian to American, to the culinary delights
of the Mediterranean. This is a concrete approach to geography, a precious tool for food-lovers and students!
THE AUTHORS
Gilles Fumey is a researcher in the cultural geography of food at the
Sorbonne University.
Olivier Etcheverria is a university lecturer in food geography at the
University of Angers.
Nicolas Baumert, Doctor of geography, is a specialist in Japanese sake.
Maria Emanovskaya is a PhD student in geography at the Sorbonne
University and a specialist in food science in Russia.
Jean-Robert Pitte, the preface writer is the President of the Society
of Geography.
Michel Bras is a chef at two gastronomic restaurants, one at Laguiole
in the South of France and the other on the Island of Hokkaido in Japan.
In the press:
‘A fascinating little book.’ Sciences Humaines
‘A delicious book full of maps, an inexhaustible mine of information.’
Le Nouvel Observateur
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Atlas – Geography & History
Raphaël Schirmer & Hélène Vélasco-Graciet
Cartography: Aurélie Boissière
Atlas mondial des vins
La fin d’un ordre consacré ?
World Atlas of Wine
The End of an Established World?
PUBLICATION DATE: MAY 2010
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: TAIWAN
It’s documented, entertaining
and gripping: the epicurean
side of wine is the core
of this ambitious work
of hardly 80 pages.
Libération
This small book allows
making up your mind.
La Tribune
Planet Wine is today going through profound upheavals that are drawing a new geopolitical map for vines and wine. While the European
hegemony in the sector seemed incontrovertible for centuries, it is now
being questioned by the introduction, or re-introduction of vineyards
considered until recently as inferior, or marginal, in California, Chile,
or Australia. What new world order is going to come out of these
changes? Numerous maps, created for this book, outline this complex
geography, featuring OIV (International Wine and Vine Organisation)
member countries, Wine Spectator ranking, imports from Madeira to
New York, a map of places where Michel Rolland makes wine. In various
places, changes to the sector have also been made by consumers, who
mark their commitment to environmental protection and health, by
opting for organic wine; and to beauty, by going to spas and using cosmetics made by Caudalie, a French brand that exploits grape products
for their cosmetic properties. Meanwhile, those in search of exotica go
on tours of wine country in Chile and Brazil, for example. This new
geo-political system appears to be subject to unpredictable economic,
social, cultural and climate change, which globalisation is notably causing at ever-increasing speed.
THE AUTHORS
Raphaël Schirmer and Hélène Vélasco-Graciet are professors at the
Université de Bordeaux III.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Pascal Gillon, Loïc Ravenel & Frédéric Grosjean
Cartography: Donatien Cassan
Atlas du sport mondial
Business et spectacle : l’idéal sportif en jeu
Atlas of world sport
Business and Show: the Sporting Ideal in Question
PUBLICATION DATE: JUNE 2010
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
The Atlas of World Sport is not an encyclopaedia of sport. It is not structured discipline by discipline. One of a kind, it offers an original perspective on sport, placing it in the context of globalisation. International
decision-making bodies lay down rules and regulate competitions so
that the whole planet can take part on an equal footing. This globalisation, effective in mega-events (such as the Olympic Games and football
World Cup), is based on a British model, which has been exported
thanks to the rapid development of communication tools and to changing economic systems. Is sport thus leading the way by thinking and
playing global? How do power and domination operate in the sports
world? Is there an international division of labour in sport? This atlas
presents a geography of some of the major sports, of which football ultimately appears to be the only really ‘globalised’ one.
THE AUTHORS
Pascal Gillonis a senior lecturer in Geography. His main focus is international sport and, more specifi cally, the Olympic Games, from a
geopolitical angle.
Loïc Ravenel is a senior lecturer in Geography. For 15 years his work
has been focused on the geography of sports. In 2006 he founded The
Professional Players Observatory.
Frédéric Grosjean is also a senior lecturer in Geography. He is the
founder of Territoires 2100 (Territories 2100), a town and country planning consultancy.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Jean Boutier, Olivier Guyotjeannin & Gilles Pécout
Cartography: Guillaume Balavoine
Grand Atlas de l’histoire de France
The Great Atlas of French History
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2011
PRICE: 35 EUR
320 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
Traditionally, the history of France has largely been presented in the
form of a narrative on the conquest of seemingly predetermined borders
and a succession of events whose single goal was apparently to constitute
the Republican nation we know today. Far from these familiar and reassuring images, this new atlas is a “retrospective geography of France”,
from the “accidental” creation of West Francia in 843, right up until
the contemporary period when France became part of twenty-first century Europe.
This history of France in map form helps the reader immediately to
grasp the links that gradually formed or were imposed to create a kingdom, then a country, or an empire at certain periods, while also depicting
the dreams and setbacks of a territory under construction. To further
underline the vibrancy of this history, the authors have also compiled a
booklet presenting one emblematic monument from every period and the
way in which each still has an impact on the French territory: Mont SaintMichel, the Château de Versailles, and the Côte d’Azur.
Borders have not always existed as we know them today. For this reason, this work starts off with an analysis of the territory’s representation,
from the medieval period to the republican period when Tour de la France
par deux enfants, an influential geography school text book, confirmed to
the French the centralised and unified nature of their country.
THE AUTHORS
Jean Boutier, editor of the work and author of the section on modern
developments, is a director of studies in modern history at the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is head of the SHADYC research
unit combining the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and history
at the Centre de la Vieille-Charité in Marseille.
Olivier Guyotjeannin, a former member of the Ecole Française de
Rome, is a professor in medieval diplomacy and archive science at the
Ecole Nationale des Chartes.
Gilles Pécout, a former member of the Ecole Française de Rome, is a
contemporary history professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
KEY SELLING POINTS
•A
unique approach.
reference book written by internationally renowned historians.
• An ideal and intelligent gift for all the family.
•A
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Atlas – Geography & History
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire & Silvia Marzagalli
Cartography: Guillaume Balavoine
Atlas de la Révolution française
Circulations des hommes et des idées (1770-1803)
Atlas of the French Revolution
The Circulation of Men and Ideas (1770-1803)
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2010
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
This atlas, dedicated to the French Revolution, describes in over a hundred maps the upheaval that occurred between 1789 and 1799.
The Revolution did not simply start in the spring of 1789, but was
anchored in a process of great scope. This work places events in perspective by situating them in an era, and in a space that reached as far as
Europe’s frontiers and even transatlantic horizons.
The crisis of the Ancien Regime was provoked by the contradictions
of a monarchy aware of the urgent need for reform, but up against the
privileged classes’ reluctance to relinquish their rights and privileges. The
revolutionary project of rebuilding the nation and its institutions was confronted by territorial issues. The French Revolution is inextricably linked
to the history of Europe and colonialism, which is itself turbulent.
A detailed chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index complete this Atlas of the French Revolution, making it a valuable work tool
and original reference book.
THE AUTHORS
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, is a Professor of Modern History at the Nice
Sophia-Antipolis University, and a member of the Institut Universitaire
de France.
Silvia Marzagalli is a Professor of Modern History at the Nice
Sophia-Antipolis University.
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Atlas – Geography & History
Laurianne Sève
Cartography: Madeleine Benoît-Guyod
Atlas du monde hellénistique (336-31 av. J.-C.)
Pouvoir et territoires après Alexandre
An Atlas of the Hellenistic World (336-31 B.C.)
Power and Territories Following Alexander
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 2011
PRICE: 17 EUR
80 PAGES
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE
Following the rupture of Alexander the Great’s empire, new political
protagonists emerged: the Hellenistic kings who had to control vast territories inhabited by a substantial proportion of difficult-to-administer individuals not originating from Greek culture. The most widespread political
form at the time became the city.
How did these kings proceed to take over the control and exploitation
of these territories? The answer lies in their capacity for innovation and
their introduction of new political structures. As each of the kings was confronted by different physical and human realities, this atlas is arranged
according to geographical zones highlighting their ability to adapt by using
diverse tools to dominate. The kings were nevertheless confronted by a disintegration process, boosted by the Roman conquest. So while they instigated the creation of a new type of power, they would fail to maintain
long-lasting control.
This atlas does not focus exclusively on the eastern Mediterranean, but
takes into account the whole of the Mediterranean world. The integration
of western zones allows this atlas to show that not all regions of the Hellenistic world were under the heels of the kings. Such political evolutions
modified the territorial and political structure of the Greek world. These
other political communities, chiefly cities, adapted and found the means
to resist the power of the kings.
THE AUTHOR
Laurianne Sève, a professor of Greek history at the Université de Lille 3,
specialises in the Hellenistic Near East (Iran and Central Asia) and the
Seleucid Empire.
Already published:
Les Figurines de Suse. De l’époque néo-élamite à l’époque sassanide. Musée du
Louvre, Département des Antiquités Orientales, RMN, 2002.
“Quoi de neuf sur le royaume séleucide”, in L’Orient méditerranéen de la
mort d’Alexandre aux campagnes de Pompée. Cités et royaumes à l’époque hellénistique, P.U.R, 2003.
KEY SELLING POINTS
• A meditation on the notions of territory, state, and so forth.
• The Hellenistic epoch was a key stage in the development of states in the
modern sense of the term.
• An examination of the expansion of Hellenism, in contact with numerous
populations from non-Greek cultures, both inside and outside the “frontiers” of the Hellenistic world.
• University reference work.
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INDEX
AUTHORS
TITLES
Adler, Laure
7
Argounes, Fabrice ; Mohamed-Gaillars, Sarah
25
& Vacher, Luc
Bailoni, Mark & Papin, Delphine
26
Bard, Christine
14
Barré, Bertrand & Mérenne-Schoumaker,
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Bernadette
Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves ; Marzagalli, Silvia
40
& Balavoine, Guillaume
Boutier, Jean ; Guyotjeannin, Olivier & Pécout, 39
Gilles Brès, Antoine & Sanjuan, Thierry
Chagnollaud, Jean-Paul & Souiah, Sid-Amed
28
Charvet, Jean-Paul
35
Choël, Raphaëlle & Rovéro-Carrez, Julie
13
Delpirou, Aurélien et Mourlane, Stéphane
23
Deshaies, Michel
24
Encel, Frédéric
27
Eugène
19
Flavigny, Laure
34
Forges, Jean-François & Biscarat, Pierre-Jérôme
20
Fumet, Gilles & Etcheverria, Olivier
36
Gelézeau, Valérie
31
Gillon, Pascal ; Ravenel, Loïc & Grosjean, Frédéric 38
Guidère, Mathieu
8, 9
Hatzfeld, Marc
15
Josse, Gaëlle
16
Lacroix, Alexandre
5
Minassian, Gaïdz
10, 11
Onfray, Michel
6
Ravet, Hyacinthe
12
Resch, Dominique
17
Ribardière, Antonine & Tallet, Bernard
30
Schirmer, Raphaël & Vélasco-Graciet, Hélène
37
Schlagdenhauffen, Régis
21
Sève, Laurianne
41
Tertrais, Bruno
33
Tin, Louis-Georges
22
Wenzel, Jean-Paul
18
Alas des villes durables
Atlas de la Révolution française
Atlas de l’agriculture
Atlas de l’Allemagne
Atlas de l’Italie contemporaine
Atlas de l’Océanie
Atlas de Mexico
Atlas de Paris
Atlas de Séoul
Atlas des énergies mondiales
Atlas des Palestiniens
Atlas du monde hellénistique
Atlas du sport mondial
Atlas géopolitique d’Israël
Atlas géopolitique du Royaume-Uni
Atlas mondial des cuisines et gastronomies
Atlas mondial des vins
Atlas mondial du nucléaire
Ce que soulève la jupe
Contribution à la théorie du baiser
Dans un livre j’ai lu que…
Eurasie, le nouveau grand jeu
Grand Atlas de l’histoire de France
Guide historique d’Auschwitz
Le Choc des révolutions arabes
Les Heures silencieuses
Les Lascars
Les Nouveaux Terroristes
L’Invention de la culture hétérosexuelle
Manifeste féministe
Manifeste hédoniste
Mots de tête
Musiciennes
Tokyo Sisters
Tout un homme
Triangle rose
Zones grises
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