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  Vient de paraître Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met. Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America de Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. aux University of North Carolina Press

  Le 30 mai 2020 à 21h13

  Vient de paraître Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met. Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America de Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. aux University of North Carolina Press, coll. "David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History", 2020, 280 p. ISBN : 978-1-4696-5504-8 Prix : 24,95 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
  
  

  "During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant to Indigenous peoples whose lands the border crossed. Moving beyond common frameworks that assess mapped borders strictly via colonial law or Native sovereignty, it examines the interplay between imperial and Indigenous spatial imaginaries. What results is an intricate spatial history of border making in southeastern South America (present-day Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay) with global implications.
  Drawing upon manuscripts from over two dozen archives in seven countries, Jeffrey Erbig traces on-the-ground interactions between Ibero-American colonists, Jesuit and Guaraní mission-dwellers, and autonomous Indigenous peoples as they responded to ever-changing notions of territorial possession. It reveals that Native agents shaped when and where the border was drawn, and fused it to their own territorial claims. While mapmakers’ assertions of Indigenous disappearance or subjugation shaped historiographical imaginations thereafter, Erbig reveals that the formation of a border was contingent upon Native engagement and authority."
  
  

  
  
  Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. (https://twitter.com/jaerbig) is assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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  Vient de paraître The Gulf of Mexico. A Maritime History de John S. Sledge aux University of South Carolina Press

  Le 30 mai 2020 à 21h03

  Vient de paraître The Gulf of Mexico. A Maritime History de John S. Sledge aux University of South Carolina Press, coll. "Southern History", 2019, 280 p. ISBN : 978-1-64336-014-0 Prix : 29 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
  
  

  "The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth’s tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf’s human history and culture so rich. Many famous figures who sailed the Gulf’s viridian waters are highlighted, including Ponce de León, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, Francis Drake, Elizabeth Agassiz, Ernest Hemingway, and Charles Dwight Sigsbee at the helm of the doomed Maine. Sledge also introduces a fascinating array of people connected to maritime life in the Gulf, among them Maya priests, French pirates, African American stevedores, and Greek sponge divers.
  Gulf events of global historical importance are detailed, such as the only defeat of armed and armored steamships by wooden sailing vessels, the first accurate deep-sea survey and bathymetric map of any ocean basin, the development of shipping containers by a former truck driver frustrated with antiquated loading practices, and the worst environmental disaster in American annals.
  Occasionally shifting focus ashore, Sledge explains how people representing a gumbo of ethnicities built some of the world’s most exotic cities—Havana, way station for conquistadores and treasure-filled galleons ; New Orleans, the Big Easy, famous for its beautiful French Quarter, Mardi Gras, and relaxed morals ; and oft-besieged Veracruz, Mexico’s oldest city, founded in 1519 by Hernán Cortés. Throughout history the residents of these cities and their neighbors along the littoral have struggled with challenges both natural and human-induced—devastating hurricanes, frightening epidemics, catastrophic oil spills, and conflicts ranging from dockside brawls to pirate raids, foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution. In the modern era the Gulf has become critical to energy production, fisheries, tourism, and international trade, even as it is threatened by pollution and climate change. The Gulf of Mexico : A Maritime History is a work of verve and sweep that illuminates both the risks of life on the water and the riches that come from its bounty."
  
  

  
  
  John S. Sledge is senior architectural historian for the Mobile Historic Development Commission and a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and Spanish from Auburn University and a master’s in historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. Sledge is the author of six previous books, including Southern Bound : A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers, and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart ; The Mobile River ; and These Rugged Days : Alabama in the Civil War.

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  Vient de paraître Slave No More. Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas d’Aline Helg aux University of North Carolina Press

  Le 30 mai 2020 à 20h43

  Vient de paraître Slave No More. Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas d’Aline Helg aux University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 368 p. ISBN : 978-1-4696-4963-4 Prix : 29,95 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
  Traduit du français par Lara Vergnaud. Publié initialement à La Découverte sous le titre : Plus jamais esclaves ! De l’insoumission à la révolte, le grand récit d’une émancipation (1492-1838) (2016)
  
  

  "Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become “free people of color” before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized.
  While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies : flight and marronage ; manumission by legal document ; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation ; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery."
  
  

  
  
  Aline Helg is professor of history at the University of Geneva and author of Our Rightful Share and Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770—1835.
  Lara Vergnaud is a French-English translator based in Washington, D.C.

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  Vient de paraître Gum Arabic. The Golden Tears of the Acacia Tree de Dorrit van Dalen aux Leiden University Press

  Le 29 mai 2020 à 07h52

  Vient de paraître Gum Arabic. The Golden Tears of the Acacia Tree de Dorrit van Dalen aux Leiden University Press, 2019, 204 p. ISBN : 9789087283360 Prix : 24,50 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
  
  

  "Gum Arabic has been seen as a symbol of the “noble Orient” and later as a symbol of trouble. It is the hardened sap of varieties of acacia trees which grow exclusively in the Sahel, an area stretching across the African continent just south of the Sahara. From the time of the Crusades, when Europeans purchased it in Arab countries, it has played an ever-growing role in the global economy. It is now a common ingredient in foods, sodas, and cosmetics.
  Combining cultural history with travel writing, Dorrit van Dalen follows the fascinating history and shifting meanings assigned to gum Arabic from Shakespeare to Bin Laden and from the Industrial Revolution to a veteran of a recent coup d’état in Chad. She shows that both African and Western civilisations would not be the same without these tears of the acacia."
  
  

  
  
  Dorrit van Dalen has worked in West Africa in international cooperation and as a journalist. She is now affiliated with Leiden University.

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  Vient de paraître The Global Spanish Empire. Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism sous la direction de Christine Beaule et John G. Douglass aux University of Arizona Press

  Le 29 mai 2020 à 07h20

  Vient de paraître The Global Spanish Empire. Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism sous la direction de Christine Beaule et John G. Douglass aux University of Arizona Press, coll. "Amerind Studies in Anthropology", 2020, 344 p. ISBN : 9780816540846 Prix : 65 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
  
  

  "The Spanish Empire was a complex web of places and peoples. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, this volume brings a broad range of regions into conversation. The contributors focus on nuanced, comparative exploration of the processes and practices of creating, maintaining, and transforming cultural place making within pluralistic Spanish colonial communities.
  The Global Spanish Empire argues that patterned variability is necessary in reconstructing Indigenous cultural persistence in colonial settings. The volume’s eleven case studies include regions often neglected in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism. The time span under investigation is extensive as well, transcending the entirety of the Spanish Empire, from early impacts in West Africa to Texas during the 1800s. The contributors examine the making of a social place within a social or physical landscape. They discuss the appearance of hybrid material culture, the incorporation of foreign goods into local material traditions, the continuation of local traditions, and archaeological evidence of opportunistic social climbing. In some cases, these changes in material culture are ways to maintain aspects of traditional culture rather than signifiers of new cultural practices.
  The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about Indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism."
  
  

  
  
  Christine D. Beaule, associate professor of languages and literatures of Europe and the Americas and director of the General Education Office, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her work focuses on Spanish colonial-ism in both the Philippines and the central highland Andes.
  John G. Douglass, vice president of research and standards at Statistical Research, Inc., and adjunct professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His research has focused on indigenous-colonialinteraction, religious performance, household archaeology, and commu-nity creation in the American Southwest, California, and Mesoamerica.
  Contributeurs de l’ouvrage : Stephen Acabado - Grace Barretto-Tesoro - James M. Bayman - Christopher R. DeCorse - Boyd M. Dixon - William R. Fowler - Martin Gibbs - Corinne L. Hofman - Hannah G. Hoover - Stacie M. King - Kevin Lane - Laura Matthew - Sandra Montón-Subías - Natalia Moragas Segura - Michelle M. Pigott - Christopher B. Rodning - David Roe - Roberto Valcárcel Rojas - Steve A. Tomka - Jorge Ulloa Hung - Juliet Wiersema

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  À paraître Jamaica Ladies. Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire de Christine Walker aux University of North Carolina Press & OIEAH

  Le 28 mai 2020 à 13h12

  À paraître (juin 2020) Jamaica Ladies. Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire de Christine Walker aux University of North Carolina Press, coll. "The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series", 2020, 336 p. ISBN : 978-1-4696-5879-7 Prix : 22,95 $ (existe en version électronique).
  
  

  "Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing and expanding slave labor regime by acquiring enslaved men, women, and children to protect their own tenuous claims to status and independence.
  Female colonists employed slaveholding as a means of advancing themselves socially and financially on the island. By owning others, they wielded forms of legal, social, economic, and cultural authority not available to them in Britain. In addition, slaveholding allowed free women of African descent, who were not far removed from slavery themselves, to cultivate, perform, and cement their free status. Alongside their male counterparts, women bought, sold, stole, and punished the people they claimed as property and vociferously defended their rights to do so. As slavery’s beneficiaries, these women worked to stabilize and propel this brutal labor regime from its inception."
  
  

  
  
  Christine Walker (https://twitter.com/dr_cmwalker) is assistant professor of history at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

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  Vient de paraître Figures huguenotes dans les Amériques. De l’histoire à la mémoire sous la direction de Mickaël Augeron aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes

  Le 27 mai 2020 à 14h13

  Vient de paraître Figures huguenotes dans les Amériques. De l’histoire à la mémoire sous la direction de Mickaël Augeron aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes, coll. "Enquêtes et documents", 2020, 208 p. ISBN : 978-2-7535-7801-2 Prix : 20 €.
  
  

  "Les huguenots sont présents sur la scène américaine dès le XVIe siècle. Outre la guerre de course, ils pratiquent le troc avec les Amérindiens et s’adonnent au commerce interlope avec les colons ibériques. Ils participent aux tentatives d’implantation françaises dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent, au Brésil et en Floride. Aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, ils tiennent un rôle de premier plan dans l’expansion maritime et coloniale du royaume de France. Nombre d’entre eux, surtout après la révocation de l’édit de Nantes (1685), contribuent aussi au développement des colonies anglaises et néerlandaises. Qu’ils aient été pasteurs, marins, soldats, planteurs, administrateurs ou marchands, ils ont marqué de leur empreinte bien des régions, laissant, au fil des générations, des traces patrimoniales durables, tant dans les paysages que dans les mémoires collectives. Mythifié par les uns, méconnu par les autres, cet héritage n’en constitue pas moins un vecteur identitaire pour les descendants de huguenots et un formidable levier pour le développement économique des territoires (tourisme). Fruit d’une collaboration internationale, cet ouvrage s’interroge sur les enjeux et les modalités de mise en valeur d’une mémoire collective qui se révèle parfois éloignée de la réalité historique."
  
  

  
  
  Mickaël Augeron est maître de conférences, habilité à diriger des recherches (HDR). Centre de recherche en histoire internationale et atlantique (CRHIA), université de La Rochelle.
  Ont participé à cet ouvrage :
  Leslie Choquette, John de Bry, Pieter Emmer, Bouda Etemad, Florence Gasparini, Gilles Havard, Gérard Lafleur, Robert Larin, Owen Stanwood, Bertrand van Ruymbeke et Anne Wegenersleeswijk.
  
  Information signalée dans la lettre d’information de la Société d’histoire de la Guadeloupe (shg@wanadoo.fr).

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  Histoire générale de l’Afrique - UNESCO - en ligne

  Le 26 mai 2020 à 19h05

  L’UNESCO propose en libre accès (et librement téléchargeables) sur son site Internet les 8 volumes de l’histoire générale de l’Afrique.
  
  

  Les volumes sont disponibles en version française (mais aussi en anglais, en portugais, en arabe ; certains volumes en haoussa, en peul et en swahili).
  
  En français, sont disponibles les 8 volumes, ainsi que leur version abrégée/allégée et un complément de 12 volumes dans la série "UNESCO – Études et documents : Histoire Générale de l’Afrique" :
  
  Histoire générale de l’Afrique, I : Méthodologie et préhistoire africaine
  
  Histoire générale de l’Afrique, II : Afrique ancienne
  
  Histoire générale de l’Afrique, III : L’Afrique du VIIe au XIe siècle
  
  Histoire générale de l’Afrique, IV : L’Afrique du XIIe au XVIe siècle
  
  Histoire générale de l’Afrique, V : L’Afrique du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle
  
  Histoire générale de l’Afrique, VI : L’Afrique du XIXe siècle jusque vers les années 1880
  
  Histoire générale de l’Afrique, VII : l’Afrique sous domination coloniale, 1880-1935
  
  Histoire générale de l’Afrique, VIII : L’Afrique depuis 1935
  
  Version abrégée/allégée (en 8 volumes) :
  
  Pour le moment inaccessible en consultation et en téléchargement.
  
  
  UNESCO – Études et documents : Histoire Générale de l’Afrique (12 vol.)
  
  01 - Le Peuplement de l’Egypte ancienne et le déchiffrement de l’écriture méroïtique
  
  02 - La Traite négrière du XVe au XIXe siècle : documents de travail et compte rendu de la Réunion d’experts organisée par l’UNESCO à Port-au-Prince, Haïti, 31 janvier-4 février 1978
  
  03 - Relations historiques à travers l’océan Indien
  
  04 - L’Historiographie de l’Afrique australe : documents de travail et compte rendu
  
  05 - La Décolonisation de l’Afrique : Afrique australe et Corne de l’Afrique
  
  06 - Ethnonymes et toponymes africains
  
  07 - Les Relations historiques et socioculturelles entre l’Afrique et le monde arabe de 1935 à nos jours
  
  08 - La Méthodologie de l’histoire de l’Afrique contemporaine
  
  09 - Le Processus d’éducation et l’historiographie en Afrique
  
  10 - L’Afrique et la seconde guerre mondiale
  
  11 - Libya antiqua
  
  12 - Le Rôle des mouvements d’étudiants africains dans l’évolution politique et sociale de l’Afrique de 1900 à 1975
  
  On signalera aussi, à propos de cette entreprise éditoriale majeure, l’article de Chloé Maurel, "L’histoire générale de l’Afrique de l’Unesco : un projet de coopération intellectuelle transnationale d’esprit afro-centré (1964-1999)" paru dans les Cahiers d’études africaines.
  
  Article mise en ligne le 19 décembre 2014 et mis à jour le 26 mai 2020 (actualisation des liens, signalement de l’ensemble des volumes, en français, disponibles).

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  Vient de paraître le dossier "Souverainetés africaines" de la Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle sous la direction d’Isabelle Surun, Samuel F. Sanchez et Lancelot Arzel

  Le 20 mai 2020 à 16h42

  Vient de paraître le dossier "Souverainetés africaines" de la Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle sous la direction d’Isabelle Surun, Samuel F. Sanchez et Lancelot Arzel, n° 59, 249 p. Prix : 28 €.
  Disponible en version électronique sur Cairn.info (et bientôt sur OpenEdition Journals).
  
  

  "Face au déni d’historicité dont le continent africain est trop souvent l’objet, les historiens de l’Afrique sont placés devant un défi en forme de paradoxe : il s’agit de mettre en évidence l’existence de formes d’organisation socio-politique relevant d’une histoire « universelle » pensée depuis l’Europe – l’État, la souveraineté, le territoire – sans pour autant en gommer les spécificités et la diversité telles qu’elles se manifestent dans les contextes africains. En effet, les savoirs sur l’Afrique sont longtemps restés tributaires de catégories forgées par l’anthropologie politique en contexte colonial, qui opposait sociétés « sans État » et formes d’organisation étatiques « primitives » ou « incomplètes », érigeant le continent africain en paradigme de l’altérité. Des États de toutes formes et de toutes tailles, des cités-États aux empires les plus étendus, y sont pourtant attestés par les sources écrites, endogènes et exogènes, par les sources orales et l’archéologie."
  
  

  
  
  

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  Vient de paraître Tropical Dream Palaces. Cinema in Colonial West Africa d’Odile Goerg chez Hurst

  Le 19 mai 2020 à 22h19

  Vient de paraître Tropical Dream Palaces. Cinema in Colonial West Africa d’Odile Goerg chez Hurst, 2020, 201 p. ISBN : 9781787382053 Prix : 45 €.
  
  

  "Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity : one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres offered a break from the daily routine, as places of escape and of education. Cinema was also potentially subversive, offering an alternative to colonial discourse.
  Tropical Dream Palaces seeks to trace this history in a West African context : of broadening horizons on the one hand, and of censorship and control on the other. It fills a historiographic void, following cinema’s arrival in the region in the early twentieth century up until the Independence era, and also looking further afield to Central Africa and its different models.
  Goerg addresses questions of film distribution in colonial times ; of screening venues, their implantation, spread and different categories ; while also focusing on audiences, their gender or age ; the acquisition of a film culture ; and the impact of screening foreign images. Her book draws on extremely varied sources to paint a broad picture of this cinematographic landscape : archives, the accounts of African and European spectators or administrators, novels, autobiographies, the local press, interviews and iconography."
  
  Odile Goerg is Full Professor of Modern African History at CESSMA, Université Paris Diderot. She specialises in socio-economic history in the urban setting. Her present research focuses on leisure and culture, especially cinema, a topic on which she has published numerous articles.

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