Böcker i Histoire de la Poste et des Communications / History of the Post Offices and Communications-serien

Le livre contient 23 communications qui abordent l'histoire de la censure depuis l'invention de l'imprimerie jusqu'a nos jours, a travers le controle exerce par les autorites publiques sur les differentes formes d'expression (livre et presse, oeuvres artistiques et cinematographiques), soulignant le deplacement des normes morales et religieuses.

The purpose of this book is not only to recall some of the main events in postal history but also to suggest some topics for further reflection on recent transformations and concerns about the future of the postal sector in the context of a European continent that is constantly striving toward further integration.

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.