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Taking Nazi Technology
Intriguing, real-life espionage stories bring to life a comparative history of the Allies' efforts to seize, control, and exploit German science and technology after the Second World War. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming "wonder-weapons" that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize "intellectual reparations" from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied German...
Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the institutionalization of science teaching and research. A useful book for understanding the deep changes that universities were undergoing in the last years of the 20th century. The book is organized around four central themes: 1) Universities in the longue durée; 2) Universities in diverse political contexts; 3) Universities and academic research; 4) Universities and discipline formation. The book is addressed at a broad readership which includes scholars and researchers in the field of General History, Cultural History, History of Universities, History of Education, History of Science and Technology, Science Policy, high school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students of sciences and humanities, and the general interested public.
The Republic in Danger
The first full-length study in English of 'the man who lost the Battle of France'.
Uneasy Asylum
This book, which draws on a rich array of primary sources and archival materials, offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. It explores French policies and attitudes toward Jewish refugees from three interrelated vantage points: government policy, public opinion, and the role of the French Jewish community. The author demonstrates that Jewish refugees in France were not treated in the same manner as other foreigners, in part because of foreign policy considerations and in part because Jewish refugees had a distinctive socioeconomic profile. By examining the socioeconomic and political factors that informed Frenc...
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The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire after World War II. Connecting the rise of all the social sciences with efforts by France and other imperial powers to consolidate control over their crisis-ridden colonies, Steinmetz argues that colonial research represented a crucial core of the renascent academic discipline of sociology, especially between the late 1930s and the 1960s. Sociologists, who became favored partners of colonial governmen...
Histoire du CNRS de 1939 à nos jours
En plus de 70 ans d’une histoire riche, mêlant grands projets, découvertes et aventures humaines, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) est devenu un acteur incontournable de la recherche internationale. Depuis sa naissance, en 1939, c’est tout un pan de la science française qui s’y est construit. Par là même, une partie de l’histoire de France et de son rayonnement. Chercheurs, ingénieurs, techniciens du CNRS n’ont jamais vécu dans une tour d’ivoire : ils ont participé à la mobilisation, subi les affres de l’Occupation, rebâti à la Libération. Ils se sont investis dans la recherche fondamentale, sans refuser d’en valoriser les fruits. Bon an mal an, ils ont ouvert leurs portes à de nouveaux partenaires, scientifiques, universitaires, économiques, sociaux. Au fil de cette histoire, le CNRS apparaît ainsi tel qu’il est, et tel qu’il a toujours été : un laboratoire du mouvement perpétuel. Entre réussites et espoirs, mais aussi débats et déboires, recherche et politique de la recherche n’ont jamais cessé d’être remises sur la paillasse.
The Fall of France in the Second World War
This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and contingency. It shows that the dominant explanation claimed for many years that the fall was the inevitable consequence of a society grown rotten in the inter-war period. This view has been largely replaced among academic historians by a consensus which distinguishes between the military defeat and the political demise of the Third Republic. It emphasizes the contingent factors that led to the military defeat. At the same time it seeks to understand the constraints within which France’s policy-makers were required to act and the reasons for their policy-making failures in economics, defence and diplomacy.
