Introduction. Un autre XIXe siècle : l’Inde sous domination coloniale

Si la Revue d’Histoire du XIXe siècle a récemment élargi son champ à l’histoire coloniale, ses publications s’étaient toutefois limitées à l’empire français, avec notamment un numéro dédié à « L’Algérie au XIXe siècle ». Le présent dossier est donc l’occasion de réexaminer à nouveaux frais, et avec des horizons élargis, les questions que la colonisation pose aux historiens et historiennes. L’exercice de composer un numéro sur le XIXe siècle en Inde n’était cependant pas sans poser problème, t..

Frédéric Vidal, Les habitants d’Alcântara. Histoire sociale d’un quartier de Lisbonne au début du 20e siècle

Version légèrement remaniée d’une thèse de doctorat d’histoire soutenue en 2003, Les habitants d’Alcântara constitue un texte très dense de près de 500 pages consacré à l’étude d’un quartier ouvrier et industriel de Lisbonne, entre la fin du xixe siècle et les années 1940. Le titre de l’ouvrage résume à lui seul les deux ambitions problématiques de l’auteur, à savoir d’une part contribuer, à travers l’exemple d’Alcântara, à une histoire sociale du processus d’industrialisation du Portugal, et..

Les Dumoulin, une famille dans la guerre / The Dumoulins, a family in the war

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Book : Imperial Technoscience by Amit Prasad

The origin of modern science is often located in Europe and the West. This Euro/West-centrism relegates emergent practices elsewhere to the periphery, undergirding analyses of contemporary transnational science and technology with traditional but now untenable hierarchical categories. In this book, Amit Prasad examines features of transnationality in science and technology through a study of MRI research and development in the United States, Britain, and India. In an analysis that is both the..

Book : Impossible Engineering

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi Chandra Mukerji http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8911.html The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's ..

Talk: 29/04/2016 "Motor Lorry vs. Bullock Cart: Road Transport between Modernizing Agents and Peasant Households in Central and Western India During the Great Depression"

Talk by Dr. Stefan Tetzlaff, CEIAS-CNRS, ENGIND "Motor Lorry vs. Bullock Cart: Road Transport between Modernizing Agents and Peasant Households in Central and Western India During the Great Depression" Date: 29/04/2016 Time: 2.00 p.m. Venue: Department of History, Ambedkar Bhavan, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Book review: Technology and rural change in Eastern India 1830-1980

Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India 1830-1980 by Smritikumar Sarkar; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp 355, Rs 895. by Iftekhar Iqbal ([email protected]) is at the Department of History, University of Dhaka. http://www.epw.in/book-reviews/machine-and-its-limits.htm

Book: Carol Upadhya, Reengineering India

Reengineering India. Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy, Oxford University Press, July 2016, 359 p., ISBN: 9780199461486. Carol Upadhya It is a comprehensive anthropological study of the Indian IT industry It is unique in that it draws on long-term and in-depth ethnographic research inside software organizations and based on extensive interviews with IT professionals and others connected with the industry It examines the origins of software capital, the shaping of the Indi..

New Issue Feb 2014 Seminar Magazine : State of Science

THE PROBLEM Posed by Dhruv Raina, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi SCIENCE, NATIONALISM AND THE STATE Benjamin Zachariah, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, University of Heidlherg THE PUBLIC LIFE OF EXPERTISE Shiju Sam Varughese, Centre for Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar SCIENCE, STATE AND THE PUBLIC Bis..

Introduction: Un autre XIXe siècle, l'Inde sous domination coloniale

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