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Paru récemment Exploration. A Very Short Introduction de Stewart A.
Weaver aux Oxford University PressLe 21 août 2019 à 13h49
Paru récemment Exploration. A Very Short Introduction de Stewart A.
Weaver aux Oxford University Press, coll. "Very Short Introductions", 2015, 152 p. ISBN : 9780199946952 Prix : 7,99 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"For as long as there have been civilizations, there has been the urge to venture outside of them, either in search of other civilizations or in search of novelty. Exploration : A Very Short Introduction surveys this quintessential human impulse, tracing it from pre-history to the present, from east to west around the globe, and from the depths of volcanoes to the expanses of space.
Stewart Weaver arranges the history of world explorations into thematic chapters, each of which isolates the distinctive qualities and characteristics of exploration in a particular era, period, or place. He introduces the reader to the definition of exploration ; to the Polynesians crossing vast seas on their canoes and other early explorers ; through Columbus and the European discovery of the Americas. James Cook and the place of exploration in the Enlightenment form the subject of a chapter. So too do the natural histories and explorations of Alexander von Humboldt in South America and Lewis and Clark in North America. The book’s final chapters chart exploration through imperial expansion and into new frontiers, guiding the reader through exploration in Africa and Central Asia, the race to the North and South Poles, and today’s efforts in space and deep sea exploration.
But what accounts for this urge ? Through this unique survey of the history of exploration, Weaver clearly shows how the impulse to explore is also the foundation of the globalized world we inhabit today. Exploration combines a narration of explorers’ daring feats with a wide-lens examination of what it fundamentally means to explore. As Weaver shows us, the act of exploration in the largest possible global context is the natural history of the earth itself."
exploration-vsi-toc.pdf
Stewart A.Weaver is a Professor of History, University of Rochester. He is the co-author (with Maurice Isserman) of Fallen Giants : A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, which won the National Outdoor Book Award for History and Biography and the Banff Mountain Festival Award for mountaineering history. -
Paru récemment Making Morocco Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity de Jonathan
Wyrtzen aux Cornell University PressLe 21 août 2019 à 13h37
Paru récemment Making Morocco Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity de Jonathan
Wyrtzen aux Cornell University Press, 2016 (2018 pour l’édition paperback), 352 p. ISBN : 9781501731228 Prix : 27,95 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"Jonathan Wyrtzen’s Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco’s historical coverage is remarkably thorough and sweeping ; the author exhibits incredible scope in his research and mastery of an immensely rich set of materials from poetry to diplomatic messages in a variety of languages across a century of history. The monograph engages with the most important theorists of nationalism, colonialism, and state formation, and uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a framework to orient and organize the socio-historical problems of the case and to make sense of the different types of problems various actors faced as they moved forward. His analysis makes constant reference to core categories of political sociology state, nation, political field, religious and political authority, identity and social boundaries, classification struggles, etc., and he does so in exceptionally clear and engaging prose. Rather than sidelining what might appear to be more tangential themes in the politics of identity formation in Morocco, Wyrtzen examines deeply not only French colonialism but also the Spanish zone, and he makes central to his analysis the Jewish question and the role of gender. These areas of analysis allow Wyrtzen to examine his outcome of interest—which is really a historical process of interest—from every conceivable analytical and empirical angle. The end-product is an absolutely exemplary study of colonialism, identity formation, and the classification struggles that accompany them. This is not a work of high-brow social theory, but a classic work of history, deeply influenced but not excessively burdened by social-theoretical baggage."
making-morocco-toc.pdf
JonathanWyrtzen is Assistant Professor of Sociology and History at Yale University. -
Paru récemment An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War. Conscripted Generation d’Ângela
Campos chez Palgrave MacmillanLe 21 août 2019 à 13h20
Paru récemment An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War. Conscripted Generation d’Ângela
Campos chez Palgrave Macmillan, coll. "Palgrave Studies in Oral History", 2017, XVII-341 p. ISBN : 978-3-319-46193-9 Prix : 105,49 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
"This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West’s colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese Guinea), between 1961 and 1974. At the forefront of this work are the lived experiences of a wide range of Portuguese veterans, framed by broader insights about the post-war public memory of this event in Portugal. Moving away from stereotypical and polarized images of these ex-combatants, An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War : Conscripted Generation explores the memories and consequences of this war for these veterans and their society. Seeking to understand why Portuguese ex-combatants often feel neglected and historically unrecognised, this book presents a thorough portrait of a continually shifting – and at times paradoxical –individual and collective remembrance process."
oral-history-portuguese-colonial-war-toc.pdf
ÂngelaCampos (https://twitter.com/AngelaFCampos) is a Research Fellow in Science Policy Research at the University of Sussex, UK. She serves on the executive council of the International Oral History Association and is a member of the Oral History Society. Her research focuses mainly on veterans’ lived experiences of war, having published internationally about this topic since 2006. -
Vient de paraître The Captive Sea. Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean de Daniel
Hershenzon aux University of Pennsylvania PressLe 21 août 2019 à 13h03
Vient de paraître The Captive Sea. Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean de Daniel
Hershenzon aux University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, 304 p. ISBN : 9780812250480 Prix : 45 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco—in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a political economy of ransom and communication networks shaped by Spanish, Ottoman, and Moroccan rulers ; ecclesiastic institutions ; Jewish, Muslim, and Christian intermediaries ; and the captives themselves, as well as their kin.
Hershenzon offers both a comprehensive analysis of competing projects for maritime dominance and a granular investigation of how individual lives were tragically upended by these agendas. He takes a close look at the tightly connected and ultimately failed attempts to ransom an Algerian Muslim girl sold into slavery in Livorno in 1608 ; the son of a Spanish marquis enslaved by pirates in Algiers and brought to Istanbul, where he converted to Islam ; three Spanish Trinitarian friars detained in Algiers on the brink of their departure for Spain in the company of Christians they had redeemed ; and a high-ranking Ottoman official from Alexandria, captured in 1613 by the Sicilian squadron of Spain.
Examining the circulation of bodies, currency, and information in the contested Mediterranean, Hershenzon concludes that the practice of ransoming captives, a procedure meant to separate Christians from Muslims, had the unintended consequence of tightly binding Iberia to the Maghrib."
captive-sea-toc.pdf
DanielHershenzon teaches in the Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Department at the University of Connecticut. -
Paru récemment Media and the Portuguese Empire sous la direction de José Luís
Garcia , ChandrikaKaul , Filipa Mónica de BritoSubtil et Alexandra DiasSantos chez Palgrave MacmillanLe 21 août 2019 à 12h43
Paru récemment Media and the Portuguese Empire sous la direction de José Luís
Garcia , ChandrikaKaul , Filipa Mónica de BritoSubtil et Alexandra DiasSantos chez Palgrave Macmillan, coll. "Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media", 2017, XVI-355 p. ISBN : 978-3-319-61791-6 Prix : 126,59 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
"This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this book comprises studies in journalism, communication, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, focusing on such diverse subjects as the expansion of the printing press, the development of newspapers and radio, state propaganda in the metropolitan Portugal and the colonies, censorship, and the uses of media by opposition groups. It encourages an understanding of the articulations and tensions between the different groups that participated, willingly or not, in the establishment, maintenance and overthrow of the Portuguese Empire in Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, India, and East Timor."
media-portuguese-empire-toc.pdf
José LuísGarcia is Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He recently edited Pierre Musso and the Network Society : From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet (2016).
ChandrikaKaul is Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews, UK. Her most recent publication is titled Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience : Britain and India in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2014).
FilipaSubtil is Assistant Professor at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal.
Alexandra DiasSantos is Assistant Professor at IADE, Universidade Europeia, Portugal. -
Vient de paraître Slave Traders by Invitation West Africa’s Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era de Finn
Fuglestad aux Oxford University PressLe 20 août 2019 à 20h17
Vient de paraître Slave Traders by Invitation West Africa’s Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era de Finn
Fuglestad aux Oxford University Press, 2018, 500 p. ISBN : 9780190876104 Prix : 74 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, it was this coastline that witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relation-ship between Europeans and Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about ? How was it all organised ? And how did the locals react to the opportunities these new trading relations offered them ? The Kingdom of Dahomey is usually cited as the Slave Coast’s archetypical slave raiding and slave trading polity. An inland realm, it was a latecomer to the slave trade, and simply incorporated a pre-existing system by dint of military prowess, which ultimately was to prove radically counterproductive. Fuglestad’s book seeks to explain the Dahomean ’anomaly’ and its impact on the Slave Coast’s societies and polities."
finn-fuglestad-slave-traders-toc.pdf
FinnFuglestad is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of eleven books including A History of Niger, 1850-1960. -
Disparition de notre collègue André Martel (1930-2019)
Le 17 août 2019 à 16h17
Jean-Charles Jauffret et Jacques Frémeaux nous apprennent le décès, survenu le 11 août, de celui qui fut leur maître :
André Martel (1930-2019).
Nous remercions vivement Jean-Charles Jauffret pour nous avoir fourni cette notice biographique et nous associons à la douleur de la disparition de ce "grand monsieur".
martel_ihedn_et_officier_de_reserve.pdf
On signalera particulièrement son dernier ouvrage - La Libye des Ottomans à Da’ech - paru en 2016, sa direction du tome 4 de L’Histoire militaire de la France (PUF) et plus généralement l’ensemble de ses publications.André
Martel , La Libye des Ottomans à Da’ech : 1835-2016, L’Harmattan, coll. "Mondes en mouvement", 2016, 314 p. ISBN : 978-2-343-10240-5 Prix : 32 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
Préface d’OlivierPliez et postface deJacques Frémeaux .
Il s’agit d’une actualisation de La Libye 1835-1990. Essai de géopolitique historique ? paru aux PUF en 1991.
andremartel-libye-tdm.pdf
andre-martel-biblio.pdf
Nous remercions amicalement Julie d’Andurain et Jacques Frémeaux pour nous avoir communiqué rapidement ces informations et ce document précieux. -
Vient de paraître Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World sous la direction de Lauren
Beck chez RoutledgeLe 9 août 2019 à 19h23
Vient de paraître Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World sous la direction de Lauren
Beck chez Routledge, coll. "Routledge Research in Early Modern History", 2019, 268 p. ISBN : 9780367334680 Prix : 115 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence, movements, knowledges, and experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern Atlantic world, 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans, while detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on this time and place."
firsting-atlantic-toc.pdf
LaurenBeck holds the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Mount Allison University. -
Paru récemment Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940 d’Assan
Sarr aux University of Rochester PressLe 9 août 2019 à 19h00
Paru récemment Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940 d’Assan
Sarr aux University of Rochester Press (Boydell & Brewer), coll. "Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora", 2016, 258 p. ISBN : 9781580465694 Prix : 30 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin draws on new sources to offer an original approach to the study of land in African history. Documenting the impact of Islamization, the development of peanut production, and the institution of colonial rule on people living along the middle and lower Gambia River, the book shows how these waves of changes sweeping the region after 1850 altered local political and social arrangements, with important implications for the ability of elites to control land.
Author Assan Sarr argues for a nuanced understanding of land and its historic value in Africa. Moving beyond a recognition of the material value of land, Sarr’s analysis highlights its cultural and social worth, pointing out the spiritual associations the land generated and the ways that certain people gained privileged access to those spiritual powers. By emphasizing that the land around the Gambia River both inspired and gave form to a cosmology of ritual and belief, the book points to what might be considered an indigenous tradition of ecological preservation and protection."
assan-sarr-islam-power-dependency-toc.pdf
AssanSarr is assistant professor of history at Ohio University. -
’Une histoire de la piraterie’ dans La Fabrique de l’histoire (13-16 mai 2019)
Le 9 août 2019 à 16h54
Une histoire de la piraterie
Dans la Fabrique de l’histoire
Du 13 au 16 mai sur France Culture
Emmanuel Laurentin et son équipe de la Fabrique de l’histoire (France Culture) ont réalisé, du 13 mai au 16 mai 2019, une série d’émissions consacrées à l’histoire de la piraterie
– lundi 13 mai 2019 : avec Philippe Hroděj "Corsaires, flibustiers, boucaniers : l’âge d’or (1680-1726)"
– mardi 14 mai 2019 : avec avec Claude Sintès et Catherine Wolff "De Rome à la Cilicie : une république des pirates ?"
– mercredi 15 mai 2019 : avec Anne Lehoërff, Michel L’Hour, Jérôme Jambu et Jean Soulat "Épaves, trésors engloutis : que nous dit l’archéologie ?"
– jeudi 16 mai 2019 : documentaire de Victor Macé de Lépinay, réalisé par Renaud Dalmar, avec les témoignages de Martine Acerra, Alain Roman, Philippe Petout, Laurent Manœuvre et Dominique Le Brun "Le sabre, le pinceau et la plume : la prise du Kent par Louis Garneray"
