Abstract
This text addresses a historical research on books and school editions that has developed greatly since the 1980 in many countries. Our approach first addresses the causes of this interest before focusing the main developments in this field of research carried out in recent decades. The central focus of the exhibition is on the definition (or redefinition) of the concept, on the extensions of this research domain, on access to sources and on the renewal of problems and methods in an scientific context increasingly marked by a dialectic between the local, the national and the world.
History of the textbook; School editions; Balance of research on textbooks; Research methods