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Chronology of this site

04 Sep 10: The review of Le Secret de l'Occident (2008) posted in November 2009 on the website "Critiques Libres".
04 Sep 10: The March 2009-paper by Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau in "Le Débat" mentionning Le Secret de l'Occident (2007), floated.
01 Sep 10: The 3p-interview of me by Laurent Testot in "Sciences Humaines" (Sep 2008), about The Secret of the West (2007), floated.
01 Sep 10: The book review on "Mondes Francophones", by Marius Letellier in May 2010, quoting The Secret of the West (2007, 2008), floated.
27 Aug 10: The 2008-paper by Noel Cox on "The rise and fall of states", extensively relying on The Secret of the West (1997), floated.
24 Aug 10: The interview of physicist Etienne Klein in "L'Agitateur d'idées" of October 2008, briefly summarizing The Secret of the West (2007) floated.
24 Aug 10: The European Council document Heritage and Beyond of November 2009 quoting Le Secret de l'Occident (2007).
23 Aug 10: The first Spanish-language review of Le Secret de l'Occident (2007) – in "Mediterráneo Económico" in December 2008.
23 Aug 10: The extract from the 2002-Moroccan book about Morocco's scientific development , floated.
22 Aug 10: The paper by F.Schneider at Univ. de Kent, about Unifying European Law (2008), relying on Le Secret de l'Occident (1997).
21 Aug 10: The Essay by Guillaume Narbonne from HEC Paris (January 2009), briefly presenting Le Secret de l'Occident (1997).
21 Aug 10: The mention at the Astrophysics conference in Barcelone in September 2009 of Le Secret de l'Occident (1997).
19 Aug 10: The short review of The Secret of the West (2007) published in October 2008 in Hong Kong-based magazine Mingpao Monthly de Hong Kong.
19 Aug 10: The University of Rostock, Germany's workshop of April-June 2009, The Rise of Europe, floated.
01 Jul 10: The Italian review in Storicamente, of December 2008, floated.
22 Dec 07: My interview in Sciences et Avenir of December 2007 floated.
20 Dec 07: The NewScientist article of April 1998 floated.
19 Dec 07: The pdf version of the article by the Journal de Genève floated.
19 Dec 07: The protocols of the university of Toulouse, France, workshop about the changes in public law in South-East Asia floated.
10 Nov 07: Article in La Liberté of 30 October 2007 on Le Secret de l'Occident (2007) and interview of me reproduced on this website.
07 Oct 07: The article in the French daily Le Monde of October 05, 2007, reproduced on this site.
30 Sep 07: The article in the French daily Le Figaro of September 26, 2007, reproduced on this site.
09 Sep 07: The first version of the 2007-edition of The Secret of the West available.
09 Sep 07: The 2007 new policital book review by Georges Leroux floated on this site.
23 Aug 07: The article by Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier of 14 Aug 2007 on "Fenêtre Europe" floated on this site.
23 Aug 07: The French Embassy's library including L'Europe et la Science reproduced on this site.
23 Aug 07: The on-line bibliography of the Aug-Sep 07 issue of French magazine "Sciences Humaines" reproduced on this site.
22 Aug 07: Floating Yanko Slava's webpages about Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, dated 14 Dec 2006.
22 Aug 07: The bibliography of Info Point Europe, dated March 2002, floated.
22 Aug 07: The on-line paper by Philipp Hoffman, dated 23 Oct 2006, floated.
11 Mar 07: The paper by Michel Loriaux published on 27 Nov 2006, quoting The Self-Imposed Failure of Retirement Systems, floated.
17 Sep 06: The text from the Adam Smith Institute Blog of February 2006 floated.
17 Sep 06: The paper from Eurojournal of July 2004 floated.
16 Sep 06: The proceedings of the meeting about competition laws in the EU held in Paris on Dec 01, 2005 floated.
24-26 Aug 06: 10,000th visitor since oct 00.
14 Aug 06: The excellent analysis of The Secret of the West on "La Lettre Volée", by Edgar P., reproduced here.
14 Aug 06: The paper on the value of European diversity, by Olivier Béguin, floated.
13 Aug 06: The 3rd paper by Arnaud Parienty, published in Alternatives Economiques in November 2004, added to this site.
13 Aug 06: The 2nd paper by Lewis Pyenson added to this site.
01 May 06: The two articles by Axel Gosseries (paper1, paper 2) on inter- vs. intra- generation justice, floated.
05 Mar 06: Two articles by Jacques Brasseul, on the emergence of capitalism and on the historical fault lines of Europe, floated on this site.
25 Feb 06: The article about India and the Grand Question floated on this site.
12 Jan 06: This website again online, after having been off-line since Nov05, due to server migration.
19 Feb 05: The articles of "Nouvel Observateur" on the causes of the bogging down of Chinese and Arab science and technology in the Middle Ages.
21 Dec 04: 5000th visitor.
19 Dec 04: The CCE newsletter article about my conference in Brussels on June 18, 2004, floated.
Nov 04: The introduction page to the The Self-Imposed Failure of Retirement Systems floated.
19 Dec 04: The internet article about my conference in Brussels on June 18, 2004, floated.
24-25 Jan 04: 3,000th visitor.
03 Jan 04: The article by Peer Vries about the cultural explanation of the European miracle floated on this site.
20 Dec 03: The article by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie in Le Figaro Littéraire floated on this site.
26 Jul 03: The recommendation for this site from Le Café Pédagogique reproduced here.
02 Jun 03: The article by Jared Diamond in Nature floated on this site.
13-15 May 03: 2000th visitor.
30 Nov 02: The page of the CEC about L'Europe et la Science reproduced on this site.
23 Nov 02: The mention by the French magazine L'Expansion, dating back November 1997 but only now visible on line, reproduced on this site.
27 Aug 02: The paper by Brian Davies "The role of astronomy in the history of science" (the consequences of cloud cover), and the lecture on the European miracle by Pierre Hautcoeur "L'Europe dans le monde, 1500-2000" online.
01 Aug 02: The paper by Aurélie-Anne Tallon online.
14 May 02: The paper by Christophe Brun online.
25-27 Feb 02: 1000th visitor since oct 00.
2-3 Oct 01: After my interview in Le Soir (Brussels), 150 connections observed in two days.
18 Aug 01: Lang pages online.
23 Apr 01: My article in Sciences floated.
07 Apr 01: The review in Géopolitique des Populations added.
02 Apr 01: Altavista detects this site (riseofthewest.net) – with about 9 months delay.
21 Feb 01: Google (announcing 1.35bln websites scanned) rediscovers this site.
15 Feb 01: Google loose sight of test site under keywords valid before its change into a forwarding site. Unfortunately, Google still oversees this site.
05 Jan 01: Altavista detects the test site (with about 7 months delay).
17 Dec 00: Landes pages online.
01 Dec 00: I delete the test site pages and replace them with forwarding pages.
10 Nov 00: Google.com loses sight of this site. Retains only test site. Probably noticed the mirror pages.
27 Oct 00: Article in Le Journal de Genève added.
23 Oct 00: This site (www.riseofthewest.net) detected by google.com – about four months after floating, at a time when google announced 1.25 bln pages scanned.
09 Oct 00: Article in Le Républicain Lorrain added.
25 Sep 00: DC pages of test site detected by google.com, about two months after floating, at a time when google announced 1.07 bln internet pages scanned.
19 Sep 00: Needham pages online.
18 Sep 00: Baechler pages online.
09 Sep 00: Blamont pages online.
29 Aug 00: Jones pages online.
20 Aug 00: The first DC pages online.
23 Jul 00: Wittfogel pages online.
17 Jul 00: Braudel pages online.
25 Jun 00: First floating online under the address "www.riseofthewest.net" including Weber pages.
03 May 00: Start of online testing.
24 Apr 00: Start of site construction.
17 Dec 99: First site concept.