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Jadis et naguère au pays d'Aubers
Nos "anciens" ne sont plus les seuls à s'intéresser à l'évocation des temps révolus. Au-delà de la nostalgie, un livre comme celui-ci répond à une attente, liée à l'heureux engouement dont bénéficient aujourd'hui les traditions populaires. Fouiller son terroir pour chercher ses racines, ce n'est pas succomber à la tentation du passéisme. C'est se rassurer, enrichir le présent donc préparer le futur. Le cher Nord, qui fait tant d'efforts pour être un peu moins méconnu, a besoin de redécouvrir son identité. .............. Le présent livre apporte des éléments folkloriques et onomastiques incontestablement utiles. Le chercheur pour nourrir ses synthèses d'ethnolinguistiq...
The Transmission of Well-being
What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Their sheer chances of survival, their protection from want, their social status, their individual agency and their self-esteem were all strongly mediated by the family, the predominant social institution. Family laws and customs of family formation created differences between insiders and outsiders in terms of well-being. Within families, there were strong differences in autonomy, status and freedom between the genders and generations. The book offers a fascinating exploration of gender differences in well-being in many regions of historic Europe, with some comparative perspectives. It explores how historic family systems differed with respect to choosing a marriage partner, transmitting property, living and care conditions of widows and widowers and the position of children born out of wedlock.
Forging Napoleon's Grande Arme
The men who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to overthrow tyrants, rallied to the side of a man who wanted to dominate Europe. What was behind this drastic change of heart? In this ground-breaking study, Michael J. Hughes shows how Napoleonic military culture shaped the motivation of Napoleon’s soldiers. Relying on extensive archival research and blending cultural and military history, Hughes demonstrates that the Napoleonic regime incorporated elements from both the Old Regime and French Revolutionary military culture to craft a new military culture, characterized by loyalty to both Napoleon and the preservation of French hegemony in Europe. Underscoring this new, hybrid military culture were five sources of motivation: honor, patriotism, a martial and virile masculinity, devotion to Napoleon, and coercion. Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée vividly illustrates how this many-pronged culture gave Napoleon’s soldiers reasons to fight.
