In this volume, the author examines the place of followers of the Muslim faith in Moroccan civil society and provides some answers by means of a fascinating field survey involving the two main Islamic movements in Morocco.

This book presents the historical trajectory and the social mechanisms that allowed machines to become the central techniques in the emergence of "modern" and "productive" agriculture. At the intersection of the history and sociology of agriculture, technology, labour and the environment, the book identifies the political and fiscal mechanisms.

Social sciences and humanities make use of textual corpuses. By surrounding various practical analyses with theoretical reflexions, this work mixes fields, methods, softwares and points of view in order to reveal specificities and variations, but also show tools and solution which fields can exchange with each other.

Between 1871 and the 1920s, rural banditry was one of the main forms of protest against the colonial authorities. Focusing on the trajectories and horizons of the actors themselves, this book seeks to shed light on a phenomenon that set itself up as a counterweight to the triumph of colonial domination.

This book on paid domestic work in Mid 19th to mid 20th century France bears more specifically on the Rhône and Loire region.