Recension de Bien au chaud de Renan Viguié (coll. Histoire, sciences, techniques et sociétés, 2023) dans Technology and Culture (n° 4, vol. 65, 2024) par Alain Beltran

« In the history of “commonplace things,” we have lacked an in-depth study of the issue of heating in very contemporary times. This has now been done with Renan Viguié’s thesis, under the slightly ironic title of Bien au chaud (Keeping warm). Heating is a marker of comfort, but also of precar- iousness and misery. The focus here is on France. Viguié’s work is part of a new historiography that looks at everydaylife, comfort, and domestic space as a place of practices, innovations, and routines. In a nutshell, the last few decades have increased the number of choices available to consumers in terms of heating methods and fuels. This is not a linear story: the trajectory of solid fuels shows that obsolescence is not always definitive. »

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