Jean-Marc Olivier is a French historian born in 1961 in the town of

Champagnole Champagnole () is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Geography Champagnole has the publicity tag of "Pearl of the Jura" and is a small town at the geographical centre of Jura tourism. It stands on th ...

( Jura).

Biography and career

Olivier received the French

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in history and is a

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of contemporary history at the

University of Toulouse The University of Toulouse (french: Université de Toulouse) was a university in the French city of Toulouse that was established by papal bull in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the Frenc ...

. He was director of the

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research group FRAMESPA (Social history from the Middle Ages to today) from 2005-2013. He was elected Vice-President of International Relations at this university in June 2012. Olivier specializes in small-scale industries (watchmaking, making eyeglasses, hat making) and in different models of economic development. His

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compared the French, Scandinavian, and Swiss cases of economic development in the 19th century. He has written a number of books and articles on these subjects, and created the concept of "soft industrialization", a process by which small production units, often in rural areas, played a large role in the industrialization of Continental Europe in the 19th century. His current research focuses more specifically on the history of aviation and industrialization in France, Switzerland, and Scandinavia over the

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Publications

Books

''Des clous, des horloges et des lunettes. Les campagnards moréziens en industrie''
ails, clocks, and glasses. The countryside near Morez and its industry (1780-1914) Paris, CTHS, 2004, 608 p. [WorldCat irem record
/ref> * With Jean-Pierre Amalric and Bernadette Suau (eds.)
''Toulouse, une métropole méridionale : vingt siècles de vie urbaine''
[Toulouse, a southern metropolis: twenty centuries of urban life], Toulouse, Méridiennes, 2009, deux volumes, 1100 p. * ''Une industrie à la campagne. Le canton de Morez entre 1780 et 1914'', [An industry in the countryside: the town of Morez 1780-1914] Salins-les-Bains, musée des techniques et cultures comtoises, 2002, 131 p. Received the

Lucien Febvre Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (, ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the ''Encyclopédie française'' together wit ...

award for history. * With Natalie Petiteau and Sylvie Caucanas (ed.), ''Les Européens dans les guerres napoléoniennes'' uropeans in the Napoleonic wars Toulouse, Privat, 2012, 260 p. * (ed.), ''Histoire de l'armée de l'air et des forces aériennes françaises du XVIII^e siècle à nos jours'' istory of the French Air Force since the 18th century to the present Toulouse, Privat, 2014, 552 p. * With Alain Cortat (eds.), ''Le profit dans les PME, perspectives historiques, XIX^e-XX^e siècles'', Neuchâtel, Éditions Alphil - Presses universitaires suisses, 2014, 220 p. * With Rémy Pech (eds.), ''Histoire de Toulouse et de la métropole'', Toulouse, Privat, 2019, 800 p. * (ed.), ''Le travail en Europe occidentale des années 1830 aux années 1930'', Paris, Armand Colin, 2020, 420 p.

Articles

* « The Airbus Project Consolidates the Choice of Toulouse as the French Capital of Civil Aeronautics (1917-1970s) », in ''Nacelles. Past and Present of Aeronautics and Space'', n° 11, 2021. https://revues.univ-tlse2.fr/pum/nacelles/index.php?id=1380 rchive* https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02612957/document rchive ''American Heritage'', November, 2019, Comparison of Aluminum Alloys from Aircraft of Four Nations Involved in the WWII Conflict Using Multiscale Analyses and Archival Study
''Le Monde'', December 31, 2008, La Norvège deuxième actionnaire du CAC 40 !

Bernadotte, Bonaparte, and Louisiana: The Last Dream of a French Empire in North America

La Norvège et la Suisse face à la construction européenne

Une frontière transcendée par l'horlogerie : l'Arc jurassien franco-suisse

Petites entreprises industrielles et développement économique de l'Europe occidentale

References

External links

Framespa (UMR 5136)
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Editions Privat

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