Une modalité de la recherche collective en histoire du très contemporain

une histoire dynamique de la littérature française

c'est vrai qu'une histoire dynamique de la littérature française nous manquait depuis longtemps, et que récemment ce vide a été comblé par une contribution collective, tenant même sa place dans l'historiographie de la littérature française. mais, il faut dire que du côté de nos francisants, nous aussi, nous avons des considérations à faire, comme si on voulait mettre en parallèle le francisme e...

Une chimie qui guérit: histoire de la découverte des sulfamides

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...

Du rififi dans la pop music: une histoire oubliee du droit d'auteur

La recherche d'information. De la documentation automatique à la recherche d'information en contexte

Information Retrieval (IR) was founded soon after the construction of the first computers and, as such, is certainly the oldest application of computer science to the problem of accessing digitalized documents. About sixty years later and twenty years after the Internet revolution and its billions of pages on the Web IR is even more in the air. The domain was for a long time restricted to non i...

Une arbovirose d’actualité : la fièvre jaune, son histoire naturelle face à une fièvre hémorragique, la fièvre de la vallée du Rift

In the early 20th century, when it was discovered that the yellow fever virus was transmitted in its urban cycle by Aedes aegypti, measures of control were introduced leading to its disappearance. Progressive neglect of the disease, however, led to a new outbreak in 1927 during which the etio logical agent was isolated; some years later a vaccine was discovered and yellow fever disappeared agai...