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A History of Everyday Things
Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so: in former times, everyday objects would have passed from one generation to another, without anyone dreaming of acquiring new ones. How, therefore, have people in the modern world become 'prisoners of objects', as Rousseau put it? The celebrated French cultural historian Daniel Roche answers this fundamental question using insights from economics, politics, demography and geography, as well as his own extensive historical knowledge. Professor Roche places familiar objects and commodities - houses, clothes, water - in their wider historical and anthropological contexts, and explores the origins of some of the daily furnishings of modern life. A History of Everyday Things is a pioneering essay that sheds light on the origins of the consumer society and its social and political repercussions, and thereby the birth of the modern world.
France in the Enlightenment
A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution. France in the Enlightenment is a brilliant addition to this historical interest. France in the Enlightenment brings the Old Regime to life by showing how its institutions operated and how they were understood by the people who worked within them. Daniel Roche begins with a map of space and time, depicting France as a mosaic of overlapping g...
The Culture of Clothing
Newly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent and the kind of clothes they wore. His essential argument is that there was a 'vestimentary revolution' in the later eighteenth century as all sections of the population became caught up in the world of fashion and fast-moving consumption.
Revolution in Print
Explains the role of printing in the French Revolution and the establishment of the revolutionary government
La France des Lumières
A la fin du XVIIe siècle, " la majorité des Français pensaient comme Bossuet ". Au XVIIIe siècle, " les Français pensent comme Voltaire ", dit-on. Le XVIIIe siècle se situe bien entre deux mondes. D'un côté, il vit encore au rythme des contraintes et des traditions, et repose sur l'antique association du religieux et de l'Etat. A la tête de cet édifice, le roi-prêtre, agent principal du politique, dont les hommes sont à la fois les moyens et la fin. Mais en même temps un autre système de références se dessine: l'heure des montres et des horloges, qui succède au temps sacré des églises, tout comme la maîtrise de l'espace transforment la vie ordinaire des Français. Une aut...
Voyages en histoire
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Le Livre et l'historien
Etudes réunies en quatre grandes séquences historiques : L'apparition du livre : du manuscrit au livre (Moyen Age-XVIe siècle) ; Histoire et pouvoirs de l'écrit : l'Ancien Régime typographique (XVIIe siècle-années 1760) ; La seconde révolution du livre et le temps de l'industrialisation ; Le monde contemporain (années 1860-XXe siècle).
L'historien en quête d'espaces
Si l'oeuvre de l'historien s'inscrit naturellement dans le temps, les contributions ici réunies, issues d'un colloque tenu en 2002, s'attachent à prendre en compte plutôt la notion d'espace. Elles s'interrogent sur l'analyse spatiale en histoire, la prise en compte d'un raisonnement spatialisé dans la relecture des sources, les formes d'appropriation de l'espace...
Emotions in Non-Fictional Representations of the Individual, 1600-1850
This book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that in those writings, passions and emotions are differently expressed than in fiction. It also offers a comparative study of texts from cultures as diverse as English, French, Korean and Chinese, and of emotions in relation to genre, identity, and morality during significant cultural transformation of the early modern period. This book is distinctive in its choice of non-fictional genres, its period, and its cross-cultural approach. It can benefit scholars interested in exploring emotion as a historical and cultural product, and in enriching their knowledge of an emerging scholarly direction: studies in self-narratives (autobiography, memoirs, dream narratives, letters, etc.) often insufficiently explored in earlier historical periods.
Annales
This collection reprints key articles written within the past 30 years on the Annales school, their journal, their influence on history, historiography and other academic fields.
