History

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  Liber Largitorius : études d'histoire médiévale offertes à Pierre Toubert par ses élèves

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  Over half these thirty studies offered to Pierre Toubert relate to Italy; the remainder range as far as the antipodes. They deal with such diverse subjects as town and country, the governments of kings and bishops, war and religion, archaeology and...

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  Erick NOËL

  Les Beauharnais : Une fortune antillaise, 1756-1796

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  Towards the end of the eighteenth century, sugar plantations in the West Indies were the Beauharnais family’s main source of income. Augmented by saltworks on the île de Ré and by private income from various domains between the Loire and Charente...

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  Registres du Conseil de Genève à l'époque de Calvin, 1537

  Tome I , Du 1er mai au 31 décembre 1536 Tome II, Du 1er janvier au 31 décembre 1537

  Librairie Droz | Registres du Conseil de Genève n° 386

  The Registres du Conseil for the year 1537 contain a wealth of information about the legal, economic, social and religious history of Geneva. Geneva has to struggle to defend its political independence and economic interests against outside pressure...

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  Stéphane MUND

  "Orbis Russiarum" : Genèse et développement de la représentation du monde "russe" en Occident à la Renaissance

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 382

  Though the history of relation between Western Europe and the world of the Eastern Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians) is ancient and goes back to the beginning of recorded Russian history in the early Middle Ages, significant development...

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  Vanessa SENARCLENS

  Montesquieu historien de Rome : Un tournant pour la réflexion sur le statut de l'histoire au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  Montesquieu’s Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence alone would demonstrate his originality as a historian. Still, Vanessa de Senarclens uses his entire body of work to draw out the main notions that he...

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  Registres du Conseil de Genève à l'époque de Calvin

  Tome I, du 1er mai au 31 décembre 1536 (volume 30, f. 1-139)

  Librairie Droz | Registres du Conseil de Genève n° 372

  The months following the official adoption of the Reformation in May 1536 were decisive ones for Geneva. With regards to foreign policy, Geneva had to assert its independence from Bern, which had occupied the Savoyard territories of Gex and Ternier...

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  Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, numéros 114-115 (2002-1)

  Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne | Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre

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  Pierre JODOGNE

  Entre Italie et Pays-Bas méridionaux : Le "Libro de memoria" de la famille Cassina (1576-1650)

  Academie Royale des Anciens Auteurs Belges | Les Anciens auteurs belges

  The "Livre de mémoire" of the Cassina family relates the principal episodes in the family life over three generations living in Anverx, then Cologne, then Bruxelles, and finally in eastern Flanders. Between 1576 and 1650, the successive heads of this...

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  Le Crédit lyonnais (1863-1986) : Etudes historiques

  Librairie Droz | Publications d'histoire économique et sociale internationale

  This important anthology presents recent scholarship on the history of Crédit Lyonnais. It includes 41 contributions, divided into five different parts: Crédit Lyonnais as a business (its executives, facilities, professions, worker relations and...

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  Antoine FLEURY, Frédéric JOYE

  Les débuts de la politique de la recherche en Suisse

  Histoire de la création du Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (1934-1952)

  Librairie Droz | Varia

  At the dawn of the twentieth century, Switzerland had no national organization dedicated to scientific research except the Ecole polytechnique fédérale. The first efforts at federal funding came in the 1930s, as part of a program to boost the private...