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Ladies of the Leisure Class
In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive experience. Out of this, she suggests, they created their own world, centered on domesticity, family, and religion. To understand these women, the author argues, it is necessary to examine their world on its own terms as a coherent whole. Professor Smith draws on demographic, psychoanalytic, anthropological, linguistic, as well as historical insights and uses a variety of evidence that includes personal interviews, photographs, letters, genealog...
Familles anciennes du Boulonnais (1) : Familles de la marine boulonnaise, familles rurales et urbaines du Boulonnais (Bar à Dupont)
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Familles anciennes du Boulonnais (2) : Familles rurales et urbaines (Du Quesne à Vergne)
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Corsairs and Navies, 1600-1760
Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design "that might be both honourable and advantageous", with ships lent and soldiers (but not seamen) paid by the King, who in return would take the Crown's usual one-fifth interest in such "preis de vaisseaux", the remaining costs falling on private subscribers, in this case no less than 666 of them, headed by courtiers, financiers, naval contractors and officers of both pen and sword.' According to Pointis, peace rumours restricted the flow of advances and the expedition, nearly 4,000 strong when it sailed out of Brest, was weaker than he had planned, especially if it should prove difficult to use the ships' crews ashore.
Hem d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Hemois de souche ou d'adoption, voici l'histoire de votre ville. Comment un hameau qui, au VIe siècle, ne comptait que quelques huttes de boue et de roseau, construites au bord du marais de la Marque, a-t-il pu devenir la ville moderne que nous connaissons aujourd'hui ? C'est cette passionnante histoire, que vous racontent André Camion (membre de la Société d'émulation de Roubaix) et Jacquy Delaporte (secrétaire général adjoint de la mairie d'Hem) dans leur livre « Hem d'hier et d'aujourd'hui ».
