Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2005-4

No 52-4, 2005/4 - 242 pages

Religious Life and Society

Pages 7 to 23

Nuns on the Move: Ursuline Nuns in France and English Ladies in the Early 17th Century

By Laurence Lux-Sterritt

Pages 24 to 49

Convent Life Opens to the World in the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Visitation of Saint Mary of Orleans

By Gaël Rideau

Pages 50 to 73

The Persistence of Milan's Confraternities in the 18th Century

By David Garrioch

Labor and Enterprise

Pages 74 to 105

Strategies of Family Capitalism in Lille and Regional Financial Autonomy: The Funding of Julien Le Blan's Spinning Mills (1858 – 1914)

By Jean-Luc Mastin

Pages 106 to 130

Changing the Naval Industry: Worker's Movement and Shop Floor Relations at Saint Nazaire, 1881 – 1914

By Leslie A. Schuster

Pages 131 to 151

Leather Trade vs. Bata Shoes Enterprise: Malthusian Theory, Corporate Affairs, Xenophobia, and Anti-Semitism in the Shoe Sector in France, 1930 – 1950

By Florent Le Bot

Pages 152 to 181

The Seen and Unseen: Service Productivity in France and Britain during 19th-20th Centuries Industrialization

By Jean-Pierre Dormois

Pages 183 to 204

The Public Service Customer: Transforming the Job of Postmasters between 1965 and 1974

By Odile Join-Lambert

Readings

Pages 205 to 211

Music in the French Courts of the 16th Century

By Florence Alazard

Reviews

Pages 212 to 242

Reviews

By Marie-Hélène Froeschlé-Chopard