"Avec une poignée d'autres produits agricoles comme le café, la banane ou le sucre, le cacao est un produit emblématique de la mondialisation, mais aussi d'une évolution culturelle qui a vu naître de nouveaux modèles de consommation : cette denrée « exotique », aux conditions de...

History in Financial Times sheds light on the historiography of contemporary finance. But there is a tension in the book that is inescapable: between the production of crisis historiography, on the one hand, and the practice of the concept of crisis, on the other. There is, in other words, a...

"Hans Holbein's Triumphs (1532-1534), commissioned for the headquarters of the Hanseatic League in London and Kano Naizen's The Portuguese namban ('foreigners') painted in Japan in 1543 are representations of worlds of trade, where wealth, speculation, exploitation, poverty, curiosity,...