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The Celts
"A history of Celtic thought and identity over the last three centuries. This book will be the first synoptic historical study of Celtic ideas in the modern era. The Celts are perennially popular in both academic and popular culture, having been the subject of several recent books--scholarly and otherwise--as well as a major exhibition, 'The Celts: Art and Identity', at the British Museum and National Museum of Scotland in 2015-16. However, attention remains overwhelmingly focused on the ancient peoples labelled 'Celts', with little interrogation of how and why they became known as such during the modern period. In addressing these questions this study will be the first to account for the tr...
The Savant and the State
This debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.
Goethe's Faust I Outlined
In a new approach to Goethe's Faust I, Evanghelia Stead extensively discusses Moritz Retzsch's twenty-six outline prints (1816) and how their spin-offs made the unfathomable play available to larger reader communities through copying and extensive distribution circuits, including bespoke gifts. The images amply transformed as they travelled throughout Europe and overseas, revealing differences between countries and cultures but also their pliability and resilience whenever remediated. This interdisciplinary investigation evidences the importance of print culture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in nations involved in competition and conflict. Retzsch's foundational set crucially engenders parody, and inspires the stage, literature, and three-dimensional objects, well beyond common perceptions of print culture's influence. This book is available in open access thanks to an Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) grant.
School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling
This book examines school acts in the long nineteenth century, traditionally considered as milestones or landmarks in the process of achieving universal education. Guided by a strong interest in social, cultural, and economic history, the case studies featured in the book rethink the actual value, the impact, and the ostensible purpose of school acts. The thirteen national case studies focus on the manner in which school acts were embedded in their particular historical contexts, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of school acts and the role they played in the rise of mass schooling. Drawing together research from countries across the West, the editors and contributors analyse why these acts were passed, as well as their content and impact. This seminal collection will appeal to students and scholars of school acts and the history of mass schooling. Chapter 9 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Latin America. Each of these regional groupings ends with a separate essay reflecting on the analysis in the preceding chapters. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the modern world, contributors analyze the history of science not only in local, national, and regional contexts but also with respect to the circulation of knowledge, tools, methods, people, and artifacts across national borders.
A History of Hygiene in Modern France
This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hygiene, Steven Zdatny convincingly contends, was that change. He reflects on how the development of hygiene: changed the way people thought about and treated their bodies; put an end to age-old afflictions and brought comfort where discomfort had been the unavoidable companion of existence; and helped produce a tripling of life expectancy. The book considers how the evolution of hygiene produced a society where people washed often, changed their clothes every day, lived without ...
Les hommes et les femmes de l'université
"Le décret du 17 mars 1808 organisait l'Université impériale. A l'occasion de la commémoration de ce bicentenaire, les Archives nationales ont proposé une journée d'étude, le 10 mars 2008, "Les hommes et les femmes de l'Université : deux siècles d'archives". En effet, le décret de 1808 a marqué la naissance du premier corps enseignant public et laïc, réduit jusqu'à la IIIe République aux administrateurs et enseignants des facultés et des établissements secondaires publics. Les contributions des différents auteurs de cet ouvrage s'organisent autour de deux thématiques : en première partie, un bilan des sources disponibles et une méthodologie d'utilisation de ces sources e...
S'orienter dans la vie : la sérendipité au travail ?
L'orientation scolaire et professionnelle, l'orientation des adultes et la formation tout au long de la vie sont approchées ici selon les dimensions sociopolitiques, locales et internationales, pédagogiques, économiques et psychologiques. Cet ouvrage ouvre également sur la notion éthique de responsabilité des personnes dans leur auto-orientation, sans esquiver les discriminations, conflits et paradoxes liés à la question du sens de la réussite dans la vie
Histoire de France, volume 3
Cette histoire de France en quatre volumes fait la part belle à l’histoire évènementielle, à ses héros, ses légendes, ses lieux et monuments. Elle met également en valeur les grandes évolutions sociales, économiques et culturelles de chaque époque. la plus récente synthèse d’un récit chronologique, d’après les recherches des plus grands historiens. des biographies des principaux personnagesle point sur les évènements les plus marquants de l’histoire nationale et sur les principaux monuments de la mémoire nationaleune présentation des grands débats historiographiques contemporains
