Innovation is everywhere. In the world of goods (technology), but also in the world of words:
innovation is discussed in the scientific and technical literature, but also in the social …

Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings
about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation …

A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart
of the Enlightenment What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes …

537 that transfers of technology were uncertain and complex processes. Hence the interest
of historians in technical dissemination derived from a profound skepticism concerning the …

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and
hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and …

This article addresses changing assessment procedures for (guild-based) artisans in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Discussions in and on two new educational …

Le but de cet article est d'interroger les transformations culturelles qui accompagnent la
commercialisation des inventions, phénomène majeur de l'essor marchand et consumériste …

Que savons-nous du rôle particulier que tiennent les objets dans notre manière de vivre?
Grille-pain, machine à coudre ou à laver... Chaque foyer occidental possède une centaine …

L'histoire du travail, y compris lorsqu'elle s' intéresse aux élaborations écrites des
travailleurs sur leur expérience ou lorsqu'elle réfléchit à la production du concept de travail …

«Pierre le matin, fonte le soir.» Ces quelques mots rédigés par le journaliste Simonin, au
terme d'une visite de l'usine du Creusot et des mines qui l'alimentent, font ressortir la …