Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the finde-siecle period. This is a biography of Henri de Rothschild that focuses on his medical achievements and that of his close family in France.
France has played a pivotal role in the development of modern science. Especially striking and controversial has been the way in which the state has organized scientific endeavor. From Knowledge to Power is the first full-scale treatment of this dramatic expansion of French science between 1860 and 1939.
Science, Vine and Wine in Modern France examines the role of science in the civilization of wine in modern France. It analyses the reinvention of the grape vine after the devastation wrought by phylloxera and the rise of oenological science following Pasteur's classic studies on wine in the 1860s.
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