“…With their analyses, the Berlin historians of education provide for the first time a historiographically well-founded and systematically grounded history of the development and status of scientific pedagogy in the GDR. …”

“…The active cooperation of Professor Czajkowski, mainly with German physicists (Friedrich Schloegl, Aachen; Werner Ebeling, Berlin), ought to be highlighted. In light of this, a development of his research, as it has moved from statistical thermodynamics to solid state theory, pursued in terms of nonlinear solid-state optics (Franco Bassani, Pisa), and culminated very recently with large quasiparticles termed Rydberg excitons, and their coherent interactions with light, is worth delineating…”

“…In this sweeping and incisive book, Sara Lorenzini provides a global history of development, drawing on a wealth of archival evidence to offer a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a Cold War phenomenon that transformed the modern world.Taking readers from the aftermath of the Second World War to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, Lorenzini shows how development projects altered local realities, transnational interactions, and even ideas about development itself. …”

“…Le présent volume tente de combler cette lacune en commençant à montrer pourquoi l’esprit républicain est justement la pierre de touche la plus pertinente dont nous disposions sur le marché des philosophies politiques depuis la chute du mur de Berlin et sous la mondialisation ultralibérale. La République a des principes, dont les meilleures formulations, dans un sens social, seront recherchées chez Pierre Leroux et chez Marcel Mauss. …”