Ludovic Tournès

University of Geneva | UNIGE · Department of General History

This article deals with the participation of the Rockefeller Foundation in the technical activities of the League of Nations. It demonstrates that American philanthropy has played a central role in the development of non-political activities, not only financially (through its massive contribution), but also intellectually (as regards the conception...

This special double issue of International Politics examines the production of global knowledge in the interwar period. In anticipation of the centenary of the founding of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York and the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, it explores how think tanks and similar organisations generate knowledge...

Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearch...

Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearch...

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Transition from the League of Nations to the UN (1939–1946) The Rockefeller Foundation played an important role in the transition from the League of Nations to the United Nations through its collaboration with two international organisations. The first was the Economic, Financial and Transit Department (EFTD) of t...

American Philanthropy and the League of Nations Building together International Order, 1919-1946 Having been neglected for a long time, the history of the League of Nations has recently experienced a spectacular resurgence which leads to a reinterpretation of a number of received ideas, among which that of the absence of the United States. Indeed,...

Les fondations philanthropiques américaines (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford) ont été très présentes en France au cours du XXe siècle, finançant la plupart des institutions d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche, depuis les universités jusqu'au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique en passant par le Collège de France, l'Institut Pasteur, la Ma...

nouvelle édition revue et augmentée de "Du phonographe au MP3. Une histoire de la musique enregistrée, XIXe-XXIe siècle" [2008]

L'association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC) est née, en 1999, du constat de la place croissante, en même temps que problématique, de l'histoire culturelle dans l'historiographie contemporaine. Revendiquée par les uns, dénoncée par les autres, cette place méritait l'institution d'un lieu de rencontres où tous ceux qui se reco...

Ce travail presente une recherche inedite portant sur les activites internationales des grandes fondations philanthropiques americaines, un domaine dont l'historiographie, tres riche, est presque exclusivement en langue anglaise. Il confronte egalement les resultats de cette recherche empirique avec une reflexion epistemologique sur le concept d'am...

in C. Delporte, J.-Y. Mollier, J.-F. Sirinelli (dir.), Dictionnaire d'histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine, Paris : PUF (ISBN : 978-2-13-056108-8)

in C. Delporte, J.-Y. Mollier, J.-F. Sirinelli (dir.), Dictionnaire d'histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine, Paris : PUF (ISBN : 978-2-13-056108-8)

in C. Delporte, J.-Y. Mollier, J.-F. Sirinelli (dir.), Dictionnaire d'histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine, Paris : PUF (ISBN : 978-2-13-056108-8)

in C. Delporte, J.-Y. Mollier, J.-F. Sirinelli (dir.), Dictionnaire d'histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine, Paris : PUF (ISBN : 978-2-13-056108-8)

Du début du XXe siècle à la chute du mur de Berlin, les grandes fondations philanthropiques américaines (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, puis Soros) n'ont pas cessé d'être présentes en Europe et d'y tisser de multiples réseaux dans les milieux intellectuels, scientifiques et politiques. Fondées par de grands industriels symboles du capitalisme américa...

in J.-C. Daumas (dir.), Dictionnaire historique des patrons français, Paris : Flammarion (ISBN : 978-2-08-122834-4)

Ce chapitre se propose de mettre en lumière la constitution et l'évolution d'un réseau philanthropique franco-américain qui témoigne de la densité des circulations transatlantiques, de la fréquence des contacts et de la longueur des négociations qui aboutissent à la concrétisation des projets évoqués plus haut. En suivant ce tissu complexe de circu...

Since the end of the First World War the Rockefeller Foundation has spearheaded a large-scale programme in the field of education for the health professions (doctors and nurses). In several countries throughout the world, but with its efforts concentrated on Europe, it has financed schools, constructed information networks, granted research scholar...

Résumé Au cours de l’entre-deux-guerres, la fondation Rockefeller apporte une impulsion décisive à la construction du champ des sciences sociales en France, à la fois par son soutien financier important, mais aussi par sa participation, conjointement avec les universitaires français, à la conception d’un programme de recherche collectif et à la cré...

Depuis l'invention du phonographe par Thomas Edison en 1877, jusqu'à la révolution Internet, la musique enregistrée a connu une histoire longue et riche en rebondissements que l'on trouvera retracée de manière claire, synthétique et vivante dans ce livre. A l'heure où l'industrie de la musique est engagée depuis le début des années 2000 dans une mu...

The Rockefeller Foundation played a great role in the development of social sciences in France during the interwar period, not only through its important financial support to many research institutes, but also through its intellectual collaboration with French academics in order to build collective research programs based on the paradigm of empiric...

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Birth of American Universalism This article examines the history of the development of American universalism starting from the premise that the major philan~thropic foundations, having emerged early on the international scene, are a locus where it crystallizes. Starting in the 1890s, the United States possessed th...

The history of sound recording is one of the major chapters in contemporary music history, but it is also linked to other issues beyond music and has to be placed within the history of sensibilities. If recorded sound has such a large place today in our cultural universe, it is undoubtedly because its emergence at the end of the 19th century, far f...

Though historians of sociology have often cited the survey of unemployment conducted from 1935 to 1937 by the Institut Scientifique de Recherches Économiques et Sociales headed by Charles Rist, they have never analyzed that survey. In many respects - subject matter, theoretical protocol, implementation - this study seems a major landmark on the pat...

Cree en 1933, l’Institut scientifique de recherches economiques et sociales peut etre considere comme le premier institut d’etudes de la conjoncture francais. Par ses nombreux travaux, il a contribue a la construction d’un discours de l’expertise economique dans la France des annees trente, et a l’emergence dans le paysage intellectuel et politique...

L’histoire des techniques et l’histoire culturelle sont deux domaines qui, au moins dans l’historiographie française, s’ignorent mutuellement. C’est cette ignorance que l’on voudrait contribuer à réduire ici, en étudiant la diffusion de la technique d’enregistrement électrique des disques en France à partir de 1925 et ses conséquences, à la fois su...

Alain Corbin, Les cloches de la terre. Paysage sonore et culture sensible dans les campagnes au XIXe siècle (Paris: Flammarion, 1994), 359 pp., €8.69 (pb), ISBN 2080814532. Glenn Watkins, Proof through the Night. Music and the Great War (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2003), 598 pp., $49.95 (hb), ISBN 0520231589....

Cultural diplomacy of the Ford foundation During the cold war the Ford Foundation implemented a non-governmental cultural diplomacy to counter communism. The financing of Intercultural Publications, its publishing house present in 52 countries, was the first major effort and showed Ford’s determination to play a role in international relations.

Durant la guerre froide, les États-Unis s'appliquèrent à démontrer la valeur de leur modèle. La tâche était particulièrement ardue dans le domaine culturel, puisque la culture américaine, caricaturée par l'URSS, était souvent perçue comme vulgaire et uniformisante. Les fondations philanthropiques, au premier rang desquelles la fondation Ford, se mi...

The success of jazz in France in the 1950s resulted from both pro-American sentiment following the Liberation and, paradoxically, Cold War anti-Americanism, which was then in full swing. This ambivalence illustrates the the complexity of certain acculturation-linked phenomena whereby the imported object is sometimes reinterpreted by the host countr...

Jazz became very popular in France after World War II and became part of the world of mass culture because of a revolution of the means it was distributed and of the ways it was recepted. Moreover, this success is significant of the birth of a « youth culture » which will spread out in the sixties.

The success of jazz in France in the 1950s resulted from both pro-American sentiment following the Liberation and, paradoxically, Cold War anti-Americanism, which was then in full swing. This ambivalence illustrates the complexity of certain acculturation-linked phenomena whereby the imported object is sometimes reinterpreted by the host country, t...

Jazz became very popular in France after World War II and became part of the world of mass culture because of a revolution of the means it was distributed and of the ways it was recepted. Moreover, this success is significant of the birth of a "youth culture" which will spread out in the sixties.

Since the end of the First World War the Rockefeller Foundation has spearheaded a large-scale programme in the fi eld of education for the health professions (doctors and nurses). In several countries throughout the world, but with its efforts concentrated on Europe, it has financed schools, constructed information networks, granted research scholar...