This series is concerned with individual and collective historical studies of the medieval, modern and contemporaries eras. With already 140 titles in its catalogue, it puts forwards the various historical methods but never favors one over the other. Studies pertaining to urban or rural history, demographic, economic, social, political, cultural or religious history, biographies and historical essays are amongst the ever-growing and wide-ranging panel of works in this series.
The recent creation of the metropolis of the Grand Paris, whose area is the same since 1860, encourages to an historial reflexion about the limits of the town, which is at the center of the biggest urban region in Europe since the Middle Ages.
From 1565 till 1569, a major rebellion took hold of the Flandre, Hainaut and Artois provinces. Noblemen came together and militated against the policies led by the king of Spain, Philip II, and his ministers. Soon, the rebels were given the nickname "Les Gueux" (or beggars), a derogatory term which they yet proudly reclaimed.
La première génération des instituteurs sous la IIIe République
Histoire et civilisations
The historical analysis of the case files for both male and female primary school teachers who started their careers in the Seine district between 1870 and 1886 shows a much more diverse picture of the teaching profession than the one conveyed by the clichés of that time.
If French court is a classical subject in modern history, birth and early childhood in the curial environment constitute rare specifical research topics through the available academic works. However, many archives make possible to reconstitute what happens around the pregnant queens or princesses.
Edited by Nacima Baron, Stéphane Boissellier, François Clément, Flocel Sabaté
The limits and borders are not an erudite or formal story. Humans are always affected and delimited by the local jurisdictional boundaries (popular communities, lordships and parishes) and the air of influence linked to urban communities
Edited by Dominique Herbet, Hélène Miard-Delacroix, Hans Stark
Germany is often and alternately accused of practicing a hegemonic policy towards its neighbors or too great restraint in foreign policy. This book proposes a nuanced picture of different aspects of German influence and restraint in the last decades.
Les trois étapes de la modernité ferroviaire 1844-2016
Histoire et civilisations
Each big railway network exemplified modernity, for the building works, the equipments, technologies and financing, as an adventure of progress! The connection between Paris and Bordeaux is thus valued thanks to this history from the 1840s till the present arguments about the profitability of the new high speed line (LGV), to be opened in 2017.
How do the civilians face the supplies' disruption during the military occupation of Lille by the German army? To answer this question, the survey has to concern social relationships and redistribution of the powers, from 1914 until 1919, in a context of dramatic hardships and daily fears after the beginning of the war.
Edited by Emmanuel Droit, Hélène Miard-Delacroix, Frank Reichherzer
Associating theoretical reflexions and field research on contemporary history, young French and German scholars challenge the issues of sources, temporalities and the relation to the other social sciences.
Edited by Didier Bensadon, Nicolas Praquin, Béatrice Touchelay
Over eighty contributors human and social scientists (law, economics, management, history, political science, sociology) have worked together to highlight the main accounting concepts and terms coming from the past.
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