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HAVEA former visiting professor at the Collège de France, Sanjay Subrahmanyam lives astride multiple worlds. He was born in India and raised there, he teaches in the United States at the University of California, he sometimes lives in England and France. Revealed at home with her Vasco da Gama (2012) which presents India’s perspective on the Portuguese conquistadors in the Indies, invites to confront views, experiences, as in its final test, Should we universalize History? (CNRS ditions), in which he denounces global historical projects, from Western historians of the past to junior studies emerged in the 1980s, fermenting latent nationalism. What is the place of Europe and the West in the world today? Indian historians provide original and nuanced answers…
Laughter – Great texts from Greece and Rome
Let’s have fun with the texts, presented in this Point Reference by the best specialists in Greek and Latin literature. Thanks to them, the historical and biographical context of the ancient “private joke” becomes clear, the subtleties of language and meter are easy to understand.
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