L'histoire des politiques culturelles des villes

The history of cities' cultural policies, Philippe Poivrier. At the crossroads of the renewal of political history and cultural history, a new research area has been open to historians after a heavy occupation of the land by sociologists and political scientists. The article goes into the methodological stakes that accompany the examination of this public treatment of culture. A new approach of the social stakes of our societies could take effect, by giving to contemporary history a goal that has not been very much in evidence until now: the well-argued study of locality.Poirrier Philippe. L'histoire des politiques culturelles des villes. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°53, janvier-mars 1997. pp. 129-146