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Electric Worlds / Mondes Électriques HISTORY OF ENERGY What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrifi cation? 8 Electrifi cation is a process which began almost a hundred and fi fty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical know- ledge and shows the renewal of the historiography in both its themes and its approaches. Four questions about the passage to the electrical age are raised: which innovations or combination of innovations made this passage a reality? According to which networks and appropriation? Evolving thanks to which tensions and alliances? And resulting in which transition and accumulation? Quel(s) regard(s) les historiens d’aujourd’hui portent-ils sur l’électrifi - cation, processus engagé il y a près de cent cinquante ans mais auquel plus d’un milliard d’hommes et de femmes restent encore étrangers ? Le présent volume rend compte de la diversité des mondes sociaux élec- triques et des manières d’enquêter sur leur histoire. Il actualise les connaissances et témoigne du renouvellement de l’historiographie, dans ses objets et ses approches. Quatre points d’interrogation sur le bascu- lement des sociétés dans l’âge électrique jalonnent le volume : moyennant quelles créations ou combinaisons créatrices ? En vertu de quelles circulations et appropriations ? Selon quelles tensions et alliances ? Et produisant quelles transitions et accumulations ? Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier, Stéphanie Le Gallic (eds.) Alain Beltran est directeur de recherche au CNRS, UMR Sirice (Paris), et président du Comité d’histoire de l’électricité et de l’énergie. Léonard Laborie est chargé de recherche au CNRS, UMR Sirice (Paris), et secrétaire scientifi que du Comité d’histoire de l’électricité et de l’énergie. Electric Worlds / Pierre Lanthier est professeur d’histoire à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Mondes électriques Stéphanie Le Gallic est maître de conférence à l’Université Bordeaux- électriques / Mondes Worlds Gallic Le Electric (eds.) S. Lanthier, P. Laborie, L. Beltran, A. Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions Montaigne (CEMMC) et ancienne secrétaire scientifi que du Comité d’histoire de l’électricité et de l’énergie. (19th-21st C.) ISBN 978-2-87574-330-5 P.I.E. Peter Lang Peter P.I.E. Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier and Stéphanie Le Gallic - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM P.I.E. Peter Lang via free access Brussels www.peterlang.com HISTORY OF ENERGY What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrifi cation? 8 Electrifi cation is a process which began almost a hundred and fi fty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical know- ledge and shows the renewal of the historiography in both its themes and its approaches. Four questions about the passage to the electrical age are raised: which innovations or combination of innovations made this passage a reality? According to which networks and appropriation? Evolving thanks to which tensions and alliances? And resulting in which transition and accumulation? Quel(s) regard(s) les historiens d’aujourd’hui portent-ils sur l’électrifi - cation, processus engagé il y a près de cent cinquante ans mais auquel plus d’un milliard d’hommes et de femmes restent encore étrangers ? Le présent volume rend compte de la diversité des mondes sociaux élec- triques et des manières d’enquêter sur leur histoire. Il actualise les connaissances et témoigne du renouvellement de l’historiographie, dans ses objets et ses approches. Quatre points d’interrogation sur le bascu- lement des sociétés dans l’âge électrique jalonnent le volume : moyennant quelles créations ou combinaisons créatrices ? En vertu de quelles circulations et appropriations ? Selon quelles tensions et alliances ? Et produisant quelles transitions et accumulations ? Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier, Stéphanie Le Gallic (eds.) Alain Beltran est directeur de recherche au CNRS, UMR Sirice (Paris), et président du Comité d’histoire de l’électricité et de l’énergie. Léonard Laborie est chargé de recherche au CNRS, UMR Sirice (Paris), et secrétaire scientifi que du Comité d’histoire de l’électricité et de l’énergie. Electric Worlds / Pierre Lanthier est professeur d’histoire à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Mondes électriques Stéphanie Le Gallic est maître de conférence à l’Université Bordeaux- électriques / Mondes Worlds Gallic Le Electric (eds.) S. Lanthier, P. Laborie, L. Beltran, A. Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions Montaigne (CEMMC) et ancienne secrétaire scientifi que du Comité d’histoire de l’électricité et de l’énergie. (19th-21st C.) Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier and Stéphanie Le Gallic - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Lang Peter P.I.E. Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM P.I.E. Peter Lang via free access Brussels Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier and Stéphanie Le Gallic - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM via free access Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier and Stéphanie Le Gallic - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM via free access Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier and Stéphanie Le Gallic - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM via free access Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions (19th-21th C.) Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, PierreBruxelles Lanthier · Ber linand · B Stéphanieern · New York Le ·Gallic Oxford - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM via free access Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier, Stéphanie Le Gallic (eds.) Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions (19th-21th C.) History of energy Vol. 8 Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier and Stéphanie Le Gallic - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM via free access Information bibliographique publiée par « Die Deutsche Bibliothek » « Die Deutsche Bibliothek » répertorie cette publication dans la « Deutsche Nationalbibliografie » ; les données bibliographiques détaillées sont disponibles sur le site <http://dnb.ddb.de>. Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Comité d’histoire de l’électricité et de l’énergie et le soutien de la Fondation Groupe EDF. Illustration de couverture : Affiche du colloque « Mondes électriques » (2014), création François Chevret. © Comité d’histoire de l’électricité et de l’énergie. ISSN 2033-7469 • ISBN 978-2-87574-330-5 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-0352-6605-4 (E-PDF) • E-ISBN 978-2-8076-0028-7 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-2-8076-0029-4 (MOBI) • DOI 10.3726/978-3-0352-6605-4 D/2016/5678/64 Open Access : Cette œuvre est mise à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d’Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0. Pour consulter une copie de cette licence, visitez le site internet https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Cette publication a fait l’objet d’une évaluation par les pairs. © Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier, Stéphanie Le Gallic, 2016 Peter Lang S.A. Éditions scientifiques internationales Bruxelles www.peterlang.com Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier and Stéphanie Le Gallic - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM via free access Table of Contents / Table des matières Part 1. Creations Introduction ..............................................................................................13 Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier, Stéphanie Le Gallic Bright Lights, Brilliant Wits. Caricature and Electric Light in Later Nineteenth-Century Paris ..... 17 Hollis Clayson From Gas to Electric. Georges Seurat, Brassaï and the City of Light ............................................................................ 39 Gavin Parkinson Electricity at Court. Technology in Representation of Imperial Power ................................................................................ 65 Natalia Nikiforova Architecture in a New Light. Architects and Illuminating Engineers in the Early Twentieth Century United States ................ 81 Sandy Isenstadt De la circulation à l’appropriation. La patrimonialisation du paysage de néon aux États-Unis .................................................. 103 Stéphanie Le Gallic Part 2. Circulations The Branches of Large Electricity Companies in Portugal. From Trade to the Transfer and Adaptation of Technology (Twentieth Century) .................................................. 125 Ana Cardoso de Matos and Maria da Luz Sampaio La réglementation internationale – apport de la Tchécoslovaquie à la normalisation électrotechnique en Europe. La coopération de Vladimír List et Ernest Mercier et son importance pour l’introduction du système MIR dans les années 1960 dans les pays du Conseil d’assistance économique mutuelle ......153 Marcela Efmertová Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier and Stéphanie7 Le Gallic - 978-2-8076-0028-7 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:32:30AM via free access La part des capitaux français dans les sociétés électrotechniques tchécoslovaques durant l’entre-deux-guerres et au début de la guerre froide
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