A historical look at styles of technological research and design. If it is true, as Tocqueville
suggested, that social and class systems shape technology, research, and knowledge, then …

Introduction: rethinking European kinship: transregional and transnational families/David
Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher--The historical emergence and massification of …

Faut-il sauver les grandes écoles? De la culture de la sélection à la culture de l'innovation.
Paris, Presses de Sciences Po.«Nouveaux Débats», p. 160. DOI: 10.3917/scpo. veltz …

On the 10th of January 1934 a private view was held at 51 rue Raynouard in the well-heeled
sixteenth arrondissement in Paris. On display were mural paintings by the cubist André …

During the Enlightenment, Madrid's scientific institutions, such as the Botanical Garden or
the Natural History Museum, served the demands of court ornamentation as well as colonial …

Publisher Summary On the one hand, descriptive geometry is the culmination of a long and
slow evolution of different graphical methods used for representing space. On the other …

FOR DECADES, THERE HAVE BEEN two schools of thought about the business
development of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the pessimists' and the …

La Compagnie de Saint-Gobain a été de bonne heure «une multinationale à la
française»(JP Daviet). C'est ce que révèlent les travaux en histoire des entreprises. Secteur …

One intellectual process that has strongly marked the history of the 20 th century is bound up
with the specific attention paid to the problems of control, management and organization and …

The thesis examines the role of railway engineers in shaping the representations of
technology in interwar France. The managements of French railway companies undertook a …