While historiography often insists on the French-German antagonism dominating the period 1870 to 1918, a new analysis of the « hereditary enmity" allows on the contrary to highlight contacts, links and exchanges between the two countries.
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1870-1918. Volume 7
Mareike König, Elise Julien
In the second half of nineteenth century, Ernest Hamy from Boulogne-sur-Mer played a key-role in France in the development of new disciplines such as Anthropology, Archaeology, History and Museology. His discoveries and his varied works and miscellaneous, marked his tie and their reputation well beyond national borders.
Logiques d'une réussite intellectuelle
José Contel, Jean-Philippe Priotti
The decennio francese (1806-1815), during which South Italy was military occupied by French Army and Administration, has to be considered as a political laboratory. The Reign of Naples, directed by Joseph Bonaparte then by Joachim Murat, has been a melting pot where several experiences of modernization were tested, in a contest marked by conflicts
Revisiter l'histoire du decennio francese (1806-1815)
Pierre-Marie Delpu, Igor Moullier
The history of the colleges of Ancien Régime is known today well enough. But that do we know ambitions and logic of the parents who send their children to college? What do we know from the point of view of the children?
Collèges et collégiens à travers les correspondances familiales 1767-1787
Philippe Marchand
Archives, libraries and museums are both preservation spaces and places for showing collections. From various shapes, different work organizations and building periods, regularly transformed, they can't be easily understood.
Archives, bibliothèques, musées
Nathalie Simonnot, Rosine Lheureux
The unexpected and lasting resistance of Maubeuge during its siege in 1914 led to a controversy around General Fournier through the twentieth century.
Hans von Zwehl
Between 1914 and 1918, the Nord and Pas-de-Calais geographical areas met numerous difficulties. About 70% of the Nord and 25% of the Pas-de-Calais had to face a strong German occupation. On the west part of the front line, the territory became a strategic place for the allied armies, landing on Calais, Boulogne and Dunkerque. With such terrible...
Élèves, étudiants et enseignants dans la Grande Guerre en Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Jean-François Condette
This book reopens a project started ten years ago, working both at a distance from the 50th anniversary of May 68 celebrations, and as an oxymoron, in its very center. The approach at the time, a crossroads between testimonial and storytelling, then presented a restitution of the work of a research team led by Agnès Callu and supported by ...
Agnès Callu
This collective approach to the study of Court ceremonies and rituals from the time of the Roman Empire to the Baroque era (early 17th century) makes a significant contribution to the study of the emergence of European court culture as a whole.
Delphine Carrangeot, Bruno Laurioux
After almost three decades since the collapse of the GDR, the image of East Germany is still present in television and film, mainly thanks to productions such as Good Bye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others that have deeply influenced our perception of the fall of the Berlin Wall and of life under communism. The primary scope of this book is to not...
Hélène Camarade, Elizabeth Guilhamon
The Great War tore the Roman Catholic Church: in both camps, it used the same religious references to legitimate the conflict. In the occupied dioceses, the confrontation of soldiers and civilians, churchgoers and priests of opposite nations maintained representations which were forbidding any real dialogue.
L'Église déchirée entre Gott mit uns et le Dieu des armées
Xavier Boniface, Jean Heuclin
From a simple office to assist Chancellor Adenauer in his task of rehabilitating Germany in the world to a quasi-ministerial organization freed from the « Goebbels complex », the Office of Press and Information of the Federal Government gained in a decade considerable importance.
L'exemple de la France (1958-1969)
Ariane D'Angelo
Living through a military occupation also means living with the enemy. The contributions presented here examine this idea, in 1914-18 just as in 1939-45 or during the periods of 'leaving wars'; in France and Belgium just as in Poland, Central Africa, or Germany. Between dialogue and power struggles, occupiers and occupied alike adapted to a ...
Expériences d'occupation, transferts, héritages (1914-1949)
James Connolly, Emmanuel Debruyne
Nicholas Rodger presents us with an insider's view of the modus operandi of the Royal Navy which relentlessly fought against the French Navy during the XVIIIth century.
Naissance d'un modèle (1750-1780)
N. A. M. Rodger
Daniel Verheyde, Christian Pfister-Langanay
If the history of death has given rise to many and great works for the last forty years, the history of the fate reserved for the dead body remains little known.
Les funérailles, des temps modernes à l'époque contemporaine
Elisabeth Belmas, Serenella Nonnis-Vigilante
Research on ancient terracotta figurines underwent a deep evolution in its methods and questions: this book is the striking testimony of this recent change.
Lot des deux volumes
Arthur Muller, Ergün Lafli
Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi
Biographic dictionary of the archaeologists of the region "HAUTS DE FRANCE", native of our five departments or who searched there as these officers of the German or British troops. We will thus find known names as Boucher de Perthes, Auguste Mariette but also names of numerous volunteer archaeologists.
Pierre Leman
The castle of Pierrefonds, restored by the architect Viollet-le-Duc at the request of Napoleon III, is one of the most prestigious building sites of the second half of the 19th century.
Histoire d'un chantier
Arnaud Timbert
