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This edition is the first synthesis published in English, dealing with the general history of the postal services or the Post Office, in France, from the origins to the present time gathering different studies. Two early books written by one of the first historian of the postal Ancient Regime and promotor of the French postal museum in Paris,　Eugène Vaillé, had already founded a large part of the French historiography about the postal issue:Histoire des postes françaises jusqu'à la Révolution (Presses universitaires de France, 1946), Histoire des postes françaises depuis la Révolution (Presses universitaires de France, 1947). Then, a recent collective work, directed by Muriel Le Roux, historian at the CNRS and Sébastien Richez, historian at the comité pour l’histoire de La Poste, studies the contemporary history of this French administration, transformed in a public company in 1991: Brève histoire de la Poste en France depuis 1945(PIE Peter Lang, 2016). 　 These texts have been translated by Kenneth BERRY for Vaillé, and Georgina BANFIELD for those edited by Le Roux and Richez.

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Author:   Eugène Vaillé ,  Muriel Le Roux ,  Sébastien Richez
Publisher:   PIE - Peter Lang
Imprint:   PIE - Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   10
Weight:   0.437kg
ISBN:  

9782807607965

ISBN 10:   2807607969
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   19 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Eugène Vaillé: The History of the French Postal Service to the Revolution – Eugène Vaillé: The History of the French Postal Service Since the Revolution – Muriel Le Roux/Sébastien Richez: Introduction (Brief History of the French Post Office Since 1945) – David Chauraud: The French Post Office and the State – Laurence Morgana: Organisation, Missions and Services of the French Post Office – Marie Cartier: Postal Workers – Bruno Mahouche: The French Post Office as a Social Laboratory – Sébastien Richez: The French Post Office: A Mediator – Bruno Mahouche: The French Post Office and Technical Developments – Camille Henri: The French Post Office: A Major Multimodal Carrier – Sébastien Richez: The French Post Office and its Territories – Léonard Laborie: The French Post Office, European Integration and Globalisation – Muriel Le Roux: At the Crossroads between Reform, Change and Strategy: the French Post Office in the 21st　Century.

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Muriel Le Roux is senior researcher at the CNRS, at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History CNRS-École normale supérieure-Paris 1, (France). Specialist in the history of science, technology and business, she has been responsible for coordinating the scientific programmes of the Comité pour l’histoire de La Poste for many years. With a PhD in contemporary history, Sébastien Richez is an historian of the Comité pour l’histoire de La Poste. He is studying the societal acculturation of the French Post office. Eugène Vaillé the first academic historian of the French Post Office, in the middle of the 20th century, and the first curator or the French postal museum. I died in 1959.

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