Science in the Provinces: Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860 - 1930

Science in the Provinces: Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860–1930 by Mary Jo Nye reconceptualizes the Paris–provinces dichotomy by recovering the intellectual vitality and institutional ambition of five non-Parisian centers—Nancy, Grenoble, Toulouse, Lyon, and Bordeaux—across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than treating provincial laboratories as derivative outposts, Nye situates them within national debates over centralization, educa...