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Rousseau et ses Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne ou Rousseau historien et législateur antimoderne par Alfred Dufour - Penser la liberté religieuse en 1789 : Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre par Patrice Rolland - Pavane pour une révolution heureuse. Aperçu de la pensée politique de Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre, 1757-1792 par Jean-Guy Rens - « Le début du siècle nouveau » : le débat intellectuel et politique en Allemagne autour de 1800 par Lucien Calvié - De l'industrialisme saint-simonien aux fondateurs du management scientifique : l'utopie de la coopération par Baptiste Rappin – Complexification sociale et effacement de la souveraineté chez Léon Duguit par Emeric Travers - Quid leges sine moribus? Jean Massabiau ou l'aporie constitutionnelle du républicanisme au premier XIXe siècle par Oscar Ferreira - Quelle approche pour quelle histoire des idées politiques? par Hugo Bonin et Francis Dupuis-Déri- Jacques de Cassan par François – Conclusion- Résumés/Abstracts

It is impossible to understand Canada without looking at the history and development of its telecommunications industry. In the nineteenth century Canada was the only country in the world constructed on the basis of technology - first the railway and, in its shadow, telegraphy. In the 1930s this technological nationalism came of age and telecommunications became Canada's'national'technology. The Invisible Empire provides the first overview of Canadian telecommunications, from the laying of the first telegraph line between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846 to the separation between Nortel - then known as Northern Electric - and the American Bell System in 1956. Rens shows us that Louis Riel was beaten as much by telegraphy as by the Canadian army, and how Bell Canada - then known as Bell Telephone - escaped nationalization by Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government. He follows the construction of the first trans-Canadian telephone line in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s and explains why, in the context of the Cold War, Canada built an electronic Great Wall of China in the far North. Rens examines the context that allowed the telecommunications industry to take hold so successfully in Canada and explores how the industry grew so quickly and managed to escape American domination. He situates Canadian accomplishments in telecommunications by comparing them with those of other countries.