The Paris Institute of Critical Thinking is currently upgrading its website and archives to a more civilized format. In the interim, if you're looking for something to read, we recommend the following:
Or take a look at our current goings-on:
Ottoman Europe: A History on Rails
Octave Fradet was a 19th-century French engineer who worked on railroad construction in the Ottoman Empire. His documents are at the ENPC archives, and for the last semester, 40 students and 10 researchers from Paris, Istanbul, and Madrid have been using them to explore topics ranging from Great Power politics to historical workers' salaries.