Arnaud Page
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arnaud Page |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arnaud |
| FAMILY NAME | Page |
| SIGNATURE | PAGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sorbonne Université |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1057-1694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50
Historians of colonial and postcolonial attempts to deal with undernutrition in Africa have generally argued that, after the Second World War, scientists and doctors “medicalized” hunger by emphasizing specific deficiencies that could be medically “cured” or alleviated through dietary supplements, thereby covering up the economic, social, and political causes of (post)colonial hunger. This article argues that this explanation obscures the persist…
La mesure de la faim: Les enquêtes nutritionnelles d’Edward Smith (Grande-Bretagne, années 1860)
Les historiens de l’alimentation se sont particulièrement intéressés au cours des deux dernières décennies à la question de la quantification des apports et besoins alimentaires, et aux usages politiques de cette nouvelle discipline scientifique. L’essentiel de ces travaux s’est néanmoins focalisé sur le vingtième siècle et l’apparition de la calorie. Cet article propose de revenir sur certains développements préalables pour montrer que c’est dan…
Michaël Llopart, Aux origines d’AZF. Le problème de l’azote en France, 1919-1940: Tours, Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2023, 398 p
Cet ouvrage, issu de la thèse de l’auteur, retrace l’histoire des vingt premières années de l’Office national industriel de l’azote, tout en replaçant celui-ci dans le cadre plus général de l’essor du « problème de l’azote » dans la France de l’entre-deux-guerres. Le sujet de ce livre, l’histoire de la synthèse de l’azote, peut sembler à première vue très technique, mais les historiens ont bien montré son importance fondamentale dans l’histoire d…
Paul Brassley, Michael Winter, Matt Lobley et David Harvey, The Real agricultural revolution. The transformation of English farming, 1939-1985
Si les historiens de l’agriculture britannique ont bien montré l’ampleur des changements techniques et l’essor sans précédent de la production dans la seconde moitié du xxe siècle, l’histoire de ces transformations a souvent fait l’objet d’une saisie globale et surplombante, fondée sur l’utilisation des statistiques nationales. Ce type d’approche a ainsi fréquemment tendance à proposer un récit fondé sur une modernisation technique relativement l…
‘The True Food of the Brain’: Protéines et constructions raciales en Angleterre, 1840-1910
In the eighteenth century, meat became strongly associated with English national identity and was often used in discourses about national differences. This article seeks to analyze how, from the 1840s to WWI, the development of food chemistry—a science then primarily concerned with the importance of proteins—contributed to strengthening this discourse. The article thus shows how science gave a renewed legitimacy to discourses establishing strong …
Pure White Bread? Bleached Flour, Contestations, and Regulation in Great Britain, 1900-50
Why was bleaching-despite early concerns about this new food technology-left unregulated for over half a century? This article focuses on the processes developed to artificially whiten flour in the first half of the twentieth century. It shows how, instead of circumscribing adulteration to practices that they could identify precisely, most scientists in fact foregrounded the limits of their expertise and called for a precautionary approach when d…
The Price of Nitrogen at the End of the Nineteenth Century
The second half of the nineteenth century was marked by the concomitant and entangled processes of the rise of agricultural chemistry and that of the fertiliser trade. Yet, while the two were undoubtedly related, the work of agricultural chemists was not necessarily characterized by the uniform and unequivocal promotion of fertilisers. This article looks at some of the complex ways in which chemists participated in the development of the fertilis…
Fertilisers in the Long 19 th Century and Beyond: Usage, Commercialisation and Production (c 1800–1939)
The introduction to the volume provides an overview of processes in the industrialization of agriculture in the 19 th and 20 th centuries with regard to fertilisation. It explains the interplay between the intensification of fertiliser usage and agricultural output which enabled immense population growth. It shows how chemical discoveries surrounding nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus (NPK) eventually led to a diversification of markets and the f…
Fertility from Urban Wastes? The Case for Composting in Great Britain, 1920s-1960s
This paper analyses the interest that developed in Great Britain around composting from the late 1920s. It argues that before the current vogue for composting, the technique attracted considerable attention in the middle of the twentieth century and that interest in this technology was not limited to a few 'mystical' members of the organic movement. This paper also analyses the role of an institution called the Natural Resources (Technical) Commi…
“The greatest victory which the chemist has won in the fight (…) against Nature”: Nitrogenous fertilizers in Great Britain and the British Empire, 1910s–1950s
This paper analyses the rise of synthetic nitrogen in Great Britain and its empire, from the First World War to the aftermath of the Second World War. Rather than focus solely on technological innovations and consumption statistics, it seeks to explain how nitrogen was a central element in the expansion of a form of agricultural governance, which needed simplified, stable, and seemingly universal input/output formulae. In the first half of the tw…
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“The greatest victory which the chemist has won in the fight (…) against Nature”: Nitrogenous fertilizers in Great Britain and the British Empire, 1910s–1950s
This paper analyses the rise of synthetic nitrogen in Great Britain and its empire, from the First World War to the aftermath of the Second World War. Rather than focus solely on technological innovations and consumption statistics, it seeks to explain how nitrogen was a central element in the expansion of a form of agricultural governance, which needed simplified, stable, and seemingly universal input/output formulae. In the first half of the tw…
Fertility from Urban Wastes? The Case for Composting in Great Britain, 1920s-1960s
This paper analyses the interest that developed in Great Britain around composting from the late 1920s. It argues that before the current vogue for composting, the technique attracted considerable attention in the middle of the twentieth century and that interest in this technology was not limited to a few 'mystical' members of the organic movement. This paper also analyses the role of an institution called the Natural Resources (Technical) Commi…
The Price of Nitrogen at the End of the Nineteenth Century
The second half of the nineteenth century was marked by the concomitant and entangled processes of the rise of agricultural chemistry and that of the fertiliser trade. Yet, while the two were undoubtedly related, the work of agricultural chemists was not necessarily characterized by the uniform and unequivocal promotion of fertilisers. This article looks at some of the complex ways in which chemists participated in the development of the fertilis…
Fertilisers in the Long 19 th Century and Beyond: Usage, Commercialisation and Production (c 1800–1939)
The introduction to the volume provides an overview of processes in the industrialization of agriculture in the 19 th and 20 th centuries with regard to fertilisation. It explains the interplay between the intensification of fertiliser usage and agricultural output which enabled immense population growth. It shows how chemical discoveries surrounding nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus (NPK) eventually led to a diversification of markets and the f…
‘The True Food of the Brain’: Protéines et constructions raciales en Angleterre, 1840-1910
In the eighteenth century, meat became strongly associated with English national identity and was often used in discourses about national differences. This article seeks to analyze how, from the 1840s to WWI, the development of food chemistry—a science then primarily concerned with the importance of proteins—contributed to strengthening this discourse. The article thus shows how science gave a renewed legitimacy to discourses establishing strong …
Pure White Bread? Bleached Flour, Contestations, and Regulation in Great Britain, 1900-50
Why was bleaching-despite early concerns about this new food technology-left unregulated for over half a century? This article focuses on the processes developed to artificially whiten flour in the first half of the twentieth century. It shows how, instead of circumscribing adulteration to practices that they could identify precisely, most scientists in fact foregrounded the limits of their expertise and called for a precautionary approach when d…
Michaël Llopart, Aux origines d’AZF. Le problème de l’azote en France, 1919-1940: Tours, Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2023, 398 p
Cet ouvrage, issu de la thèse de l’auteur, retrace l’histoire des vingt premières années de l’Office national industriel de l’azote, tout en replaçant celui-ci dans le cadre plus général de l’essor du « problème de l’azote » dans la France de l’entre-deux-guerres. Le sujet de ce livre, l’histoire de la synthèse de l’azote, peut sembler à première vue très technique, mais les historiens ont bien montré son importance fondamentale dans l’histoire d…
Paul Brassley, Michael Winter, Matt Lobley et David Harvey, The Real agricultural revolution. The transformation of English farming, 1939-1985
Si les historiens de l’agriculture britannique ont bien montré l’ampleur des changements techniques et l’essor sans précédent de la production dans la seconde moitié du xxe siècle, l’histoire de ces transformations a souvent fait l’objet d’une saisie globale et surplombante, fondée sur l’utilisation des statistiques nationales. Ce type d’approche a ainsi fréquemment tendance à proposer un récit fondé sur une modernisation technique relativement l…
A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50
Historians of colonial and postcolonial attempts to deal with undernutrition in Africa have generally argued that, after the Second World War, scientists and doctors “medicalized” hunger by emphasizing specific deficiencies that could be medically “cured” or alleviated through dietary supplements, thereby covering up the economic, social, and political causes of (post)colonial hunger. This article argues that this explanation obscures the persist…
La mesure de la faim: Les enquêtes nutritionnelles d’Edward Smith (Grande-Bretagne, années 1860)
Les historiens de l’alimentation se sont particulièrement intéressés au cours des deux dernières décennies à la question de la quantification des apports et besoins alimentaires, et aux usages politiques de cette nouvelle discipline scientifique. L’essentiel de ces travaux s’est néanmoins focalisé sur le vingtième siècle et l’apparition de la calorie. Cet article propose de revenir sur certains développements préalables pour montrer que c’est dan…
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