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The Civilising Offensive
"This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the ‘social question’ by ‘civilising’ and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe’s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium, as well as their main international actors. This book aims to place the history of social, moral and educational reform in Belgium during the long 19th century within a broader European perspective. This collection of contributions by both young and established scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds not only fills some gaps in Belgian historiography, but also offers a better understanding of broad epochal processes such as the bourgeois civilising offensive, the expansion of educational action and the historical growth of welfare states.
European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War
This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War. Whilst many aspects of the Great War have been revisited in light of the centenary, and in spite of the recent growth of modern policing history, the role and fate of police forces in the conflict has been largely forgotten. Yet the war affected all European and extra-European police forces. Despite their diversity, all were confronted with transnational factors and forms of disorder, and suffered generally from mass-conscription. During the conflict, societies and states were faced with a crisis situation of unprecedented magnitude with mass mechanised killing on the battle fie...
Mons dans la tourmente
L'objectif de ce livre est d’observer le fonctionnement de la justice dans l’arrondissement judiciaire de Mons durant les deux guerres mondiales, face aux douloureuses réalités des collaborations et des résistances avec l’occupant allemand. Les conséquences de ces deux occupations se font sentir dès le mois d’août 1914 et jusqu’aux dernières suites pénales de l’épuration de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1961). Au fil de six contributions – deux sur la première guerre, quatre sur la seconde –, occupations et libérations sont abordées comme des réalités vécues au quotidien par des gens ordinaires. Les tensions de la première occupation sont éclairées par les con...
Le tribut des temps troubles
L'historiographie belge n’avait pas établi jusqu’à présent de bilan chiffré concernant les homicides attribués à la résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Théâtre d’un embrasement de violence à l’été 1944, l’arrondissement judiciaire de Mons constitue un observatoire privilégié du phénomène. Au-delà du binôme résistance-collaboration, longtemps présenté de manière antinomique, cette recherche met au jour la complexité des faits et des comportements. Les affaires étudiées transmettent à bien des égards le cliché en négatif d’une société montoise déstructurée dans l’immédiat après-guerre. La richesse documentaire des archives du parquet m...
The Power of Networks
The Power of Networks describes a typology of network-based research practices in the historical disciplines, ranging from the use of quantitative network analysis in cultural, economic, social or political history or religious studies, to novel approaches in the Digital Humanities. Network data visualisations and calculations have proven to be useful tools for the analysis of mostly textual sources containing relational information, offering new perspectives on complex historical phenomena. Including case studies from antiquity to contemporary history, the book provides a clear demonstration of the opportunities historical network research (HNR) provides for historical studies. The examples...
The Transnational in the History of Education
This edited volume reflects on how the “transnational” features in education as well as policies and practices are conceived of as mobile and connected beyond the local. Like “globalization,” the “transnational” is much more than a static reality of the modern world; it has become a mode of observation and self-reflection that informs education research, history, and policy in many world regions. This book examines the sociocultural project that the “transnational turn” evident in historical scholarship of the last few decades represents, and how a “transnational history” shapes how historians construct their objects of study. It does so from a multinational perspective, yet with a view of the different layers of historical meanings associated with the concept of the transnational.
Norbert Elias in Troubled Times
This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias’s sociology. It sheds light on both the contemporary world and some of Elias’s most controversial concepts. Through examination of the ‘current affairs’, political and social contemporary changes, the authors in this collection present new and challenging ways of understanding these social processes and figurations. Ultimately, the objective of the book is to embrace and utilise some of the more polemical aspects of Elias’s legacy, such as the exploration of decivilizing processes, decivilizing spurts, and dys-civilization. It investigates to what extent Elias’s sociological analyses are still applicable in our studies of the developments that mark our troubled times. It does so through both global and local lenses, theoretically and empirically, and above all, by connecting past, present, and possible futures of all human societies.
Medical histories of Belgium
Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by questioning classic themes of the history of medicine: physicians, institutions and the nation state. While retracing specific Belgian characteristics, it also engages with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical histories of Belgium will appeal to Historians of Belgium in various subfields, especially cultural history and political history and medical historians and medical practitioners seeking the historical context of their activities.
Crimes et gens de guerre au Moyen Âge
En raison de la violence extrême dont il est capable, l’homme de guerre incarne l’une des grandes peurs de la société de la fin du Moyen Âge. Au sortir de la guerre de Cent Ans, dans l’Angleterre, la France et les principautés bourguignonnes du xve siècle, il devient urgent pour les pouvoirs publics de réformer les armées et d’encadrer l’usage légitime de la force publique. Les excès des gens de guerre en dehors du champ de bataille sont désormais considérés comme des crimes devant être sévèrement punis par la justice. Dans ce contexte de renforcement de la discipline militaire, les monarques anglais, français et bourguignons continuent pourtant à accorder fréquemment le pardon à leurs soldats. Loin d’être le signe d’un éventuel laxisme du pouvoir royal ou princier, les centaines de lettres de rémission et de pardon octroyées aux gens de guerre se révèlent au contraire un important instrument de régulation des armées. À partir de cette documentation exceptionnellement riche, ce livre interroge les liens entre violence guerrière, justice et pardon, et offre un regard nouveau sur les gens de guerre et leurs crimes à la fin du Moyen Âge.
