Russia at play

leisure activities at the end of the Tsarist Era

An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational crimes jump from city ...

Histoire du visuel au XXe siècle

La Edad de la Técnica

Mapping and naming moon

a history of lunaar cartography and nomenclature

Science in dispute

.V.1

Each volume of this new series, modeled on the History in Dispute series, will include approximately 30 signed articles, with illustrations, covering major contemporary and historic scientific disputes and controversies

Science in dispute

.V.2

Each volume of this new series, modeled on the History in Dispute series, will include approximately 30 signed articles, with illustrations, covering major contemporary and historic scientific disputes and controversies

Biotechnology

the making of a global controversy

Philosophie des sciences historiques

le moment romantique

Freud enfermo

Andre Malraux

Una vida

«Mi vida no me interesa en absoluto», solía decir públicamente André Malraux (1901-1976). Pero, de hecho, sólo le interesaba su vida, que concebía como una obra y que quizá sea su mejor novela. Así es como la aborda Olivier Todd, que en esta biografía exhaustiva ...

La coyuntura enciclopédica en el periodo entreguerras

el modelo de Lucien Febvre

Political actors

representative bodies and theatricality in the age of the French Revolution

From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and military positions and reports that deputies to the National Assembly ...

Musical constructions of nationalism

essays on the history and ideology of European musical culture

Le projet national de Blanco y Negro (1891-1917)

hommage à Carmen Salaün-Sánchez

Historia de la ciencia y de la tecnología

El siglo de la ciencia

La bénédiction de Prométhée

religion et technologie XIXème-XXème siècle

Aujourd'hui où le pape bénit l'informatique, on imagine difficilement le débat passionné qui opposa les catholiques partisans du progrès et ceux qui annoncèrent que l'invasion des machines allait déshumaniser l'homme. Claudel se fit le chantre des techniques modernes, qui n'étaient ...

Investigating modern art

This text provides an accessible historical progression through the attempting to draw out more general issues and implications. The discussion of key figures such as Picasso, Matisse, Pollock and Warhol, and movements such as Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimal Art is animated by the ...

Patristique et Antiquité tardive en Allemagne et en France de 1870 à 1930

influences et échanges: Actes du Colloque franco-allemand de Chantilly (25-27 octobre 1991)