Early Modern Fire: Science, Technology, and the Urban Space - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004521755 ISBN 13 : 9789004521759

Editeur : Brill, 2024

Synopsis

Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society in the pre-industrial period.
Analysing case studies ranging from alchemy to cooking and from firefighting to fireworks, the contributors show that the history of fire is not only one of change and progress, but also of continuity, characterised by the persistence of traditional know-how, small-scale innovation, and the coexistence of different paradigms.

Contributors: Gianenrico Bernasconi, Catherine Denys, Hannah Elmer, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Olivier Jandot, Cyril Lacheze, Andrew M.A. Morris, Cornelia Müller, Bérengère Pinaud, Stefano Salvia, Marco Storni, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gianenrico Bernasconi, Ph.D. (2009, University of Paris 1-Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) is associate professor and “directeur de recherche” at the Université de Neuchâtel. He is the author of Objets portatifs au siècle des Lumières (Paris: 2015) and co-editor of several other volumes.

Marco Storni, Ph.D. (2018, ENS Paris-Università di Bologna) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is the author of Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l’académicien, le polémiste (Paris: 2022; prize of the Fondation Del Duca-Institut de France 2023).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004521755
• ISBN 13: 9789004521759
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Éditeur: Bernasconi Gianenrico, Storni Marco
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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