Daniel Foliard (2020) - Combattre, punir, photographier. Empires coloniaux, 1890-1914

Painting Regional Identities: Nationalism in the Arts, France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1914

‘A Most Protean Disease’: Aligning Medical Knowledge of Modern Influenza, 1890–1914

This article reconstructs the process of defining influenza as an infectious disease in the contexts of British medicine between 1890 and 1914. It shows how professional agreement on its nature and identity involved aligning different forms of knowledge produced in the field (public health), in the clinic (metropolitan hospitals) and in the laboratory (bacteriology). Two factors were crucial to...

Combattre la tuberculose, 1900–1940

D. DESSERTINE and 0. FAURE, Combattre la tuberculose, 1900-1940, Lyons, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1988, 8vo, pp. 244, illus., Fr. 110.00, (paperback). Recent French contributions to the history of tuberculosis have been impressive, often iconoclastic, and this volume is a valuable addition to the corpus. As Pierre Guillaume set out to destroy the Western myth of tuberculosis as the gentle...

Daniel G. Brinton's success on the road to obscurity, 1890-99.

Two empires or three?

In the last 100 years, several spectacular discoveries were made in the world of biodiversity, discoveries such as the Okapi in the Congo forest, the only living relative of the giraffes, or Latimeria in the Indian Ocean, a living coelacanth fish, believed to have been extinct for 60 million years. But these were merely small white spots on the world map of biodiversity. By contrast, Carl Woese...