With environmental urgency facing us everywhere, innovative urban projects to reduce pollution and waste are emerging around the world. But how useful are these experiences on a global scale? Is it possible to make a town durable without being detrimental to its surroundings? This book sets out to explore these questions.
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Nouveaux modèles de gestion des ressources
Dominique Lorrain, Charlotte Halpern
This book follows the trajectories of female unionists and recounts the everyday difficulties they faced in daring to break into these male strongholds. Their rich and moving narratives reveal a whole sphere of social reality on an often-neglected subject, that of women's voices in unionism.
Défendre les intérêts des femmes au travail
Cécile Guillaume
This book closely observes the evolution, punctuated by periodic experiments and spectacular turnarounds, towards one of most significant institutional reforms in post-war United Kingdom : the bank of England.
Une marche erratique vers l'indépendance 1977-2007
Sylviane de Saint Seine
Vélocemen, hiverneurs & Algériens-Naissance des vacances ouvrières-Anciens combattants irlandais-Sciences du travail dans l'Italie fasciste-Frères musulmans & Renseignements britanniques (1939-1945)-Révolte postcoloniale entre Chine & Japon-Stefan Heym, Christa Wolf, Heiner Müler-La rupture du Programme commun-Marie-claire, magazine féministe ?
Varia
et al.
To understand the reasons for the failure of memory policies and shed light on the public debate, this book return to the sources of these memory policies and, without political bias or taking sides, ask – where do these policies come from? What do they really do? How can we make them work effectively?
Sarah Gensburger, Sandrine Lefranc
Année 1917&Assemblée constituante-Kerenski l'intouchable-Révolutions russes vues de l'Europe en guerre-Révolution dans les confins caucasiens-Ukraine&révolution de 1917-Situation révolutionnaire au Turkestan-Révolutions du paysan russe-Confiscation des biens personnels-Historiens russes témoins de 1917-Dynamiques&recompositions chrétiennes
1917, un moment révolutionnaire
Beirut, Cairo, Algiers, Istanbul: have they become ungovernable? Are they too dense, too polluted, too unequal? By delving into the fabric of their networks and institutions, this book shows that the major difficulties of these towns reflect not the lack of government, but rather its specific forms.
Gouverner par les rentes
Dominique Lorrain
Following the oil shock of 1973, a massive wave of inflation spread throughout Europe. This volume explores these upheavals through a broad historical lens, by examining countries in Western, Northern and Eastern Europe, as well as trade unions, businesses and international organizations, particularly the European Community and GATT.
L'inflation en Europe dans les années 1970
Michel-Pierre Chélini, Laurent Warlouzet
Au sommaire : Le voyage du syndicalisme italien dans l'Europe du début du 20e siècle - de la difficulté de représenter le vainqueur - Serge Lifar et la genèse de la "solution finale" - les récits des survivants de la Shoah - Stratégies d'affaires au Cambodge - Genèse du service militaire adapté à l'Outre-Mer
Recueil d'expertises mutualisées et d’expériences locales dans la région méditerranéenne pour réduire le gaspillage des ressources naturelles, de l'alimentation et des connaissances, Mediterra 2016 fournit des clés de lecture et des solutions aux décideurs politiques, aux opérateurs du développement, aux professionnels et aux chercheurs.
Zéro gaspillage en Méditerranée. Ressources naturelles, alimentation et connaissances
FAO Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, CIHEAM
Revisiting the high points of cultural policy under François Mitterrand, examining the policies that instated the 'right to cultural difference' and their culmination during the 1993 Gatt negotiations, Vincent Martigny captures the spirit of a decade that remains crucial to understand contemporary disputes over the question of identity.
Culture(s) et identités nationales (1981-1995)
Vincent Martigny
Table of contents: The political influence of colonial actors - The Birth of Vietnamese Republicanism - Algeria's Engineering of Socialist Colonial Policy - The Comintern, the French Communist Party and the Call for Algerian independence - The Messalistes and the French Left
Les gauches et les colonies
et al., Céline Marangé
In the face of the awakening of fundamentalisms and violent extremisms, Jean Picq invites us to re-read our history, to identify the key points that have allowed us to define new relations between the spiritual and the temporal and to see the triumph of reason dedicated to civil peace.
Relire l'histoire, éclairer le présent
Jean Picq
The entire standard theory of central banking is constructed on the model of independence to the state. Yet the history of central banks comes back to the state, or rather to the nation-state. In order to understand the reasons for this paradox, this book analyses the evolution of the relationship between fifteen central banks and the state.
Olivier Feiertag, Michel Margairaz
Jean-Christophe Gaven presents a large and remarkably thorough dossier on the beginnings of the Revolution, when royal sovereignty and national sovereignty were in competition. The author works meticulously to decipher the birth of this new form of criminal and political justice, entirely devoted to protecting the Revolution and its ambitions.
Histoire d'une invention juridique et politique
Jean-Christophe Gaven
This Manifesto for environmental geography illustrates a collective desire to go beyond individual practices in order to examine the epistemological and political role of geography when challenged by environmental crises.
Géographie, écologie, politique
Denis Chartier, Estienne Rodary
The book presents the completely new history of Japanese social state whose policies and knowledge were developed in the nineteenth century .
Biopolitique, travail et citoyenneté dans le Japon impérial (1868-1945)
Bernard Thomann
A unique and timely perspective on interactions between capital and industry, especially given the current on-going changes in industry.
France, Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne, 1880-1930
Philippe Marguerat
