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Un nouveau regard sur Le Pen : le sien. « Mes grands-parents ne savaient pas lire mais surent donner une vie décente à leurs enfants. Ma paysanne de mère était élégante et fière, mon père, patron pêcheur taciturne, avait navigué pendant la Grande guerre, à treize ans, mousse sur un cap-hornier, ces cathédrales de toile et de bois qui affrontaient les quarantièmes rugissants. À la maison, il n’y avait pas l’eau courante mais on aimait sa famille, son pays et Dieu – et la Bretagne aussi, avec ses îles, ses navires. L’instituteur et le curé nous apprenaient à les chanter ensemble.

"Il aura fallu quinze ans de cheminement incertain, une enquête menée aux confins de mémoires étiolées, pour retrouver une image sur laquelle j'espérais figurer, puis pour chercher mes compagnons de fuite. Quinze ans pour m'autoriser enfin à écrire cette histoire.

La structure politique du Canada va à l'encontre de la géographie économique de l'Amérique du Nord et de l'attraction économique entre le nord et le sud. Le Canada a importé des institutions politico-administratives conçues pour un État unitaire et, depuis la fondation du pays, ses leaders politiques se sont démenés pour qu'elles fonctionnent. Pour cette raison, plusieurs Canadien.ne.s, leurs communautés et leurs régions se perçoivent comme des victimes, et ce, à un degré plus élevé que chez d'autres groupes dans des démocraties occidentales.

Le concept de "bonne gouvernance" est récent : il apparaît dans les années 1970, appliqué au secteur privé d'abord puis aux questions de développement, avant de devenir une référence essentielle pour la gestion publique à tous les niveaux – local, régional, national, multilatéral et mondial.

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics. From the 1960s, the UK's immigration policy—introduced by both Labour and Tory governments—has been a toxic combination of racism and xenophobia. Maya Goodfellow tracks this history through to the present day, looking at both legislation and rhetoric, to show that distinct forms of racism and dehumanization have produced a confused and draconian immigration system. She examines the arguments made against immigration in order to dismantle and challenge them.

An in-depth and troubling look at a little-known group of immigrants-non-citizen soldiers who enlist in the US military. While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time military recruits are noncitizens. Their reasons for enlisting are myriad, but many are motivated by the hope of gaining citizenship in return for their service.

The last president of the Soviet Union discusses Communism, the Cold War, and bringing democracy to Russia in this sweeping political memoir. Drawing on his own experience and rich archival material, Mikhail Gorbachev shares his illuminating perspective on Russia’s past, present, and future place in the world. Beginning with the October Revolution of 1917, he notes how much Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party did to modernize Russia.

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods became endemic.

"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." -Roy Porter, London Review of Books. Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a "free city" within Germany that was governed by the "English" ideals of laissez-faire.

Canada's political structure runs contrary to North America's economic geography and the north-south economic pull. Canada imported political and administrative institutions designed for a unitary state, and its political leaders have struggled to make them work since the country was founded. Because of this, many Canadians, their communities, and their regions view themselves as victims to a greater degree than groups in other Western democracies do. Our federal government has shown a greater willingness to apologize for historical wrongs than other Western countries.