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France in the World
André Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French academic and cultural life for over five decades. A world traveller who trained as a geographer, Siegfried became a leading political scientist and prominent newspaper columnist. As a long-time professor at Sciences Po, he shaped generations of his country’s elite. France in the World explores the life and career of André Siegfried. An innovator in the field of political science, he established himself as France’s leading interpreter of the English-speaking world. Often likened to Alexis de Tocqueville, Siegfried published influential studies of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and New Zealand, striving to understand...
Nations Have Souls
A Frenchmen's analysis of the transformation of Western civilization.
Routes of Contagion
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England's Crisis
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Le pari canadien d'André Siegfried
Le géographe et politologue André Siegfried est connu pour son ouvrage de 1927 sur les États-Unis et ses travaux pionniers d’analyse électorale. Ses études fouillées sur l’émergence du Canada et du Canada français modernes doivent être revisitées. Outre la mise au jour des lettres inédites des interlocuteurs canadiens et québécois de l’intellectuel français, cet ouvrage restitue les linéaments d’une pensée complexe dont la réception canadienne se révèle attentive, mais ambivalente. De 1898 (date de son premier voyage au Canada) à 1947 (année où il rédige une préface pour la quatrième édition de son livre Le Canada puissance internationale), Siegfried ne cesse de s’intéresser à un pays en cours d’édification, à ses tensions externes et internes, à sa fragilité structurelle comme à ses promesses de développement.
The American Enemy
Georges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient; in America, which he had never visited, dogs don't bark, birds don't sing, and—by extension—humans are weaker, less intelligent, and less potent. Thomas Jefferson, infuriated by these claims, brought a seven-foot-tall carcass of a moose from America to the entry hall of his Parisian hotel, but the five-foot-tall Buffon remained unimpressed and refused to change his views on America's inferiority. Buffon, as Philippe Roger demonstrates here, was just one of the first in a long line of Frenchmen who have built a history of anti-Americanism i...
One Story of Academia
One Story of Academia: Race Lines and the Rhetoric of Distinction through the Académie française explores how the word race was historically linked to kings and feudal lords as a sign of elite social distinction, and how the Académie française has embodied that type of distinction in France since its establishment in 1635. Meant to be an undeclared, scholarly, «mysterious» companion to the French monarchy, the Académie created a powerful attraction for the highest classes, inspiring critics of different stripes; considered to be the highest expression of Frenchness, it excluded different groups based on class, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, ideology, and nationality. The self-procl...
LIFE
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
