Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 273817289X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 273817289X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
For Better or For Worse? Collaborative Couples in the Sciences
Author: Annette LykknesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3034802862
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice. Breaking from traditional gender analyses which focus on divisions of labor and the assignment of credit, the studies scrutinize collaboration as a variable process between partners living in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who were married and divorced, heterosexual and homosexual, aristocratic and working-class and politically right and left. The contributors analyze cases shaped by their particular geographical locations, ranging from retreat settings like the English countryside and Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to university laboratories and urban centers in Berlin, Stockholm, Geneva and London. The volume demonstrates how the terms and meanings of collaboration, variably shaped by disciplinary imperatives, cultural mores, and the agency of the collaborators themselves, illuminate critical intellectual and institutional developments in the modern sciences.
Family Business
Author: Julie HardwickPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199558078
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In 17th-century France, families were essential in the shaping of capitalism and the process of state formation. Exploring civil lawsuits in French cities, 'Family Business' reveals the part that the management of everyday difficulties, in court and out, played in these wider phenomena.
History of Universities
Author: Mordechai FeingoldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199270347
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Volume XIX/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensible tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronogically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.
Growing Up in France
Author: Colin HeywoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521868696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
How did French people write about their childhood between the 1760s and the 1930s?
Living the French Revolution, 1789-1799
Author: P. McPheePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023022881X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
What did it mean to live through the French Revolution? This volume provides a coherent and expansive portrait of revolutionary life by exploring the lived experience of the people of France's villages and country towns, revealing how The Revolution had a dramatic impact on daily life from family relations to religious practices.
The Stability of Europe
Author: Régine PerronPublisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN: 9782840503170
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A History of Childhood
Author: Colin HeywoodPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509525386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographical spread. This new, comprehensively updated edition incorporates the findings of the most recent research, and in particular revises and expands the sections on theoretical developments in the 'new social studies of childhood', on medieval conceptions of the child, on parenting and on children’s literature. Rather than merely narrating their experiences from the perspectives of adults, Heywood incorporates children’s testimonies, 'looking up' as well as 'down'. Paying careful attention to elements of continuity as well as change, he tells a story of astonishing material improvement for the lives of children in advanced societies, while showing how the business of preparing for adulthood became more and more complicated and fraught with emotional difficulties. Rich with evocative details of everyday life, and providing the most concise and readable synthesis of the literature available, Heywood's book will be indispensable to all those interested in the study of childhood.
Educating Women
Author: Christina de BellaiguePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199289980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The author looks at boarding-schools for girls in 19th-century England, exploring the emergence and expansion of private schooling for girls, the recruitment and training of schoolmistresses; the lives of schoolgirls, and the instruction they received; and the experiences of pupils and teachers who crossed the Channel.
Catching Up with America
Author: Dominique BarjotPublisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN: 9782840502401
Category : Diffusion of innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"This book is the outcome of the conference held in Caen (France) in September 1997, in preparation for the International Economic History Congress in Madrid (August 1998). This collection of essays provides, for the first time, a systematic overview of the productivity missions organised in the years following the Second World War, to investigate in situ the production and management techniques adduced to account for the American lead. Bringing together research workers from many countries (Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States), the volume addresses four successive themes. The first one concerns the part played by the United States and that country's action on the international scene. This, in turn, leads to the subsequent query: Did the productivity missions constitute tools for modernisation, or were they devices of domination? The second part considers three national experiences: the United Kingdom, France, and Japan. The third part examines a number of branches: iron and steel, electrical engineering, petrochemicals, and the tyre industry. The final part seeks to assess the impact of the missions. Ultimately, one needs must make a distinction between the rhetoric of productivity, on the one hand, and actual achievements, on the other; the missions were part of a wider process of Americanisation, wherein lies one of the keys to the economic miracles of the post-war era."--Page 4 of cover.