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26 mai 2014
- doi: 10.58079/oe4f
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Vanessa Caru, « Book : The Colonial Machine: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime », Engind, ID : 10.58079/oe4f
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The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern world history. James E. McClellan III and François Regourd explore these two world-historical forces and their interactions in this comprehensive and in-depth history of the French case in the Old Regime presented here for the first time. The case is key because no other state matched Old-Regime France as a center for organized science and because contemporary France close...