Science and Polity in France
Science and Polity in France

Author: Charles Coulston Gillispie

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-01-10

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 1400824613

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By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.

Taste and Power
Taste and Power

Author: Leora Auslander

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0520920945

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Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.

Work in France
Work in France

Author: Steven L. Kaplan

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9780801416972

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Eighteen scholars from both sides of the Atlantic look at the question of work across three centuries of French history. Representing both younger and older generations, they move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to consider human labor as it was actually performed and to determine what it has meant to specific groups and individuals at particular historical moments. This book proposes some fundamental revisions in the history of work which will have important implications for our understanding of social, political, economic, and cultural developments not only in France but throughout Europe.