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fhom - Capes et Agrégation d’histoire, 2022-2025Commander (10 €) le hors-série Histoire coloniale et impériale de l’Afrique :
https://www.payasso.fr/librairie-sfhom/commandes
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Paru récemment The Krio of West Africa. Islam, culture, creolization, and colonialism in nineteenth century de Gibril R.
Cole aux Ohio UPLe 21 novembre 2015 à 10h54
Paru récemment The Krio of West Africa. Islam, culture, creolization, and colonialism in nineteenth century de Gibril R.
Cole aux Ohio University Press, "New African Histories", 2013, 280 p. ISBN : 978-0-8214-2047-8 Prix : 32,95 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"Sierra Leone’s unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s. Much of the scholarship produced in subsequent decades has focused on the “Krio,” descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, North America, England, and other areas of West Africa, who settled Freetown, beginning in the late eighteenth century. Two foundational and enduring assumptions have characterized this historiography : the concepts of “Creole” and “Krio” are virtually interchangeable ; and the community to which these terms apply was and is largely self-contained, Christian, and English in worldview.
In a bold challenge to the long-standing historiography on Sierra Leone, Gibril Cole carefully disentangles “Krio” from “Creole,” revealing the diversity and permeability of a community that included many who, in fact, were not Christian. In Cole’s persuasive and engaging analysis, Muslim settlers take center stage as critical actors in the dynamic growth of Freetown’s Krio society.
The Krio of West Africa represents the results of some of the first sustained historical research to be undertaken since the end of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war. It speaks clearly and powerfully not only to those with an interest in the specific history of Sierra Leone, but to histories of Islam in West Africa, the British empire, the Black Atlantic, the Yoruban diaspora, and the slave trade and its aftermath."
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Vient de paraître Beyond the state. The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa sous la direction de Anna
Greenwood aux Manchester UPLe 20 novembre 2015 à 17h46
Vient de paraître Beyond the state. The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa sous la direction de Anna
Greenwood aux Manchester University Press, "Studies in Imperialism", 2015, 238 p. ISBN : 978-0-7190-8967-1 Prix : 70 £.
"The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental groups. This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration."
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À signaler le dossier "Alimentation et empires coloniaux" sous la direction de Lauren
Janes dans la revue Food & HistoryLe 20 novembre 2015 à 17h07
À signaler le dossier "Alimentation et empires coloniaux" ("Food and empire") sous la direction de Lauren
Janes dans la revue Food & History (8.1, 2010), Brepols, 2011, VI-350 p. ISBN : 978-2-503-52697-3 Prix : 57 €.
Food & History est édité par l’Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation.
Food & History est la première revue en Europe, dans sa vocation et son concept, spécialisée dans le domaine défini de l’histoire et de l’alimentation. Son émergence témoigne de l’intérêt croissant du public et de la communauté scientifique porté à l’histoire, particulièrement face aux nombreux et complexes problèmes alimentaires du monde contemporain. Food & History a pour vocation principale de présenter, fédérer, promouvoir, dynamiser et diffuser les recherches qui abordent les thématiques de l’alimentation sous un regard historique.
Table des matières détaillée
Dossier : Food and Empire / Alimentation et Empires coloniaux
Edited by Lauren Janes
Introduction to “Food and Empire”
Paul Freedman
Culinary Connections and Colonial Memories in France and Algeria
Kolleen M. Guy
Exotic Eating in Interwar Paris : Dealing with Disgust
Lauren Janes
Freshness from Afar : The Colonial Roots of Contemporary Fresh Foods
Susanne Freidberg
Food, Anxiety and Dependency in a Post-Colonial World
Erica J. Peters
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Vient de paraître Histoire et Civilisation de la Caraïbe. Tome 1 : Le temps des Genèses, des origines à 1685 sous la direction de Jean-Pierre
Sainton chez KarthalaLe 19 novembre 2015 à 21h49
Vient de paraître Histoire et Civilisation de la Caraïbe. Tome 1 : Le temps des Genèses, des origines à 1685 sous la direction de Jean-Pierre
Sainton chez Karthala, "Hommes et sociétés", 2015, 512 p. ISBN : 9782811112141 Prix : 32 €.
Karthala propose à un prix exceptionnel - 50 € - pour l’achat groupé des volumes 1 et 2 (paru en 2012 : Le temps des matrices : économie et cadres sociaux du long XVIIIe siècle) de la série "Histoire et Civilisation de la Caraïbe".
"Où et quand débute notre histoire ? Tout n’a pas commencé en 1492 ou en 1635.
Le temps des genèses aborde l’histoire des Petites Antilles dans sa continuité, des origines amérindiennes jusqu’au basculement du monde et au choc de la colonisation qui conduisent à la mise en place des sociétés d’habitation esclavagistes au courant du XVIIe siècle.
Le présent ouvrage propose une architecture d’ensemble, une histoire sociale de l’archipel étudiée sous l’angle des structures et des dynamiques. Il invite à un recentrage du regard qui ne signifie pas pour autant repli, isolement et séparation. Il s’agit de rétablir chaque île dans son unité constitutive avec son entour et avec le monde et d’inscrire l’évolution de l’archipel dans le mouvement général de l’histoire.
Ce livre est le premier tome d’un ensemble prévu en 5 volumes."
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RaymondBoutin , RichardChâteau-Degat , LydieHo Fong Choy Choucoutou , Georges B.Mauvois et Jean-PierreSainton -
Vient de paraître Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II. Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home ? de Sven
Matthiessen chez BrillLe 19 novembre 2015 à 18h34
Vient de paraître Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II. Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home ? de Sven
Matthiessen chez Brill, "Brill’s Japanese Studies Library" (volume 53), 2015, VIII—248 p. ISBN : 9789004305533 Prix : 98 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
"In Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late 19th Century to the End of World War II – Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home ? Sven Matthiessen examines the development of Japanese Pan-Asianism and the perception of the Philippines within this ideology. Due to the archipelago’s previous colonisation by Spain and the US the Philippines was a special case among the Japanese occupied territories during the war. Matthiessen convincingly proves that the widespread pro-Americanism among the Philippine population made it impossible for Japanese administrators to implement a pan-Asianist ideology that centred on a ’return to Asian values’. The expectation among some Japanese Pan-Asianists that ‘going to the Philippines was like coming home’ was never fulfilled."
SvenMatthiessen received his Ph.D./Doctorate of Law from the University of Sheffield and Tohoku University in the joint degree program of the two universities in 2012. He has published articles on Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. -
Compte rendu de deux ouvrages de la Sfhom par les Clionautes dans la Cliothèque
Le 19 novembre 2015 à 00h03
Saluons avec plaisir nos collègues des Clionautes, et particulièrement Christiane Peyronnard, pour le compte rendu de deux ouvrages de la Sfhom.
La cliothèque est une des branches dynamiques de l’association des Clionautes. On y retrouve de nombreux comptes rendus d’ouvrages récents en histoire (et en géographie).
À signaler, donc, parmi les tous récents comptes rendus, les deux ouvrages suivants provenant des Publications de la Sfhom :
– Roger Pasquier, Économie et société en Afrique subsaharienne (XIXe-XXe siècles), SFHOM, 2011, 436p.
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– Marcel Dorigny ed., Haïti, première république noire, Publications de la Société Française d’Histoire d’Outre-mer, 2007, 264p.
Compte rendu en ligne ou au format pdf
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Vient de paraître Knowledge, mediation and empire. James Tod’s journeys among the Rajputs de Florence D’Souza aux Manchester UP
Le 18 novembre 2015 à 19h03
Vient de paraître Knowledge, mediation and empire. James Tod’s journeys among the Rajputs de Florence D’Souza aux Manchester University Press, "Studies in Imperialism", 2015, 216 p. ISBN : 978-0-7190-9080-6 Prix : 70 £.
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"This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782–1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818–22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field. "
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Conférences parisiennes de Trevor Burnard sur les sociétés esclavagistes dans le monde atlantique britannique (novembre-décembre 2015)
Le 18 novembre 2015 à 18h45
Trevor Burnard, professeur d’histoire et directeur de l’Ecole des études historiques et philosophiques à l’Université de Melbourne, viendra comme directeur d’études invité à l’EHESS en novembre-décembre 2015.
Trevor Burnard est l’un des meilleurs spécialistes des sociétés esclavagistes dans le monde atlantique britannique du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. Il aussi bien travaillé sur l’Amérique du Nord que sur la Caraïbe, sur les plantations que sur les villes, ainsi que sur les maîtres et le personnel d’encadrement d’origine européenne que sur les esclaves. Il s’intéresse, en particulier, à la démographie des sociétés esclavagistes, à la manière dont les rapports de genre étaient transformés par les systèmes esclavagistes, à l’idéologie des planteurs et aux processus d’identification ethnique et raciale ou encore aux relations entre impérialisme et esclavagisme. Auteur de très nombreux ouvrages dont Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire : Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), il vient de faire paraître Planters, Merchants, and Slaves : Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (University of Chicago Press, 2015), tandis que sortira dans quelques mois un ouvrage comparatif, co-écrit avec John Garrigus : The Plantation Machine : Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
Trevor Burnard donnera cinq conférences :- Mardi 17 novembre 2015, 16h-18h, salle 12, CENA, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 PARIS : "The Making of Plantation Societies in the Greater Antilles in the Eighteenth-Century" (dans mon séminaire sur l’histoire comparée des traites, esclavages et abolitions dans les mondes atlantiques)
"The success of Barbados (and to an extent Martinique) in becoming a plantation society in which the large integrated plantation, with a small number of white managerial staff and a large number of enslaved workers of African descent was the principal labour model for plantation agriculture should have encouraged other places, like Jamaica and Saint Domingue, to transform themselves into similar kinds of plantation societies. Yet most British and French American slave societies took quite a long time before they became plantation societies similar to Barbados. Key to transforming these societies into the kinds of plantation societies that were so successful, at least in economic terms, in the eighteenth century, was convincing ordinary white men that working in the plantation economy and managing often violent and recalcitrant African-born slaves was something that could lead to wealth and prosperity. The principal argument in this seminar is that before we look at the ways that a shared racial understanding united whites in plantation societies, we need to understand the economic connections that made all white people support the continued growth of plantation systems."
- Mardi 24 novembre 2015, 12h-14h (brown bag lunch seminar), salle 12, CENA, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 PARIS : "Hearing Slaves Speak : Women Slaves, Second Slavery and Abolition in Berbice, British Guiana, 1817-1834" (dans le séminaire collectif du CENA)
"The abolition of the slave trade by the British in 1807 and the destruction of the plantation system in Saint-Domingue did not mean that plantation slavery was in decline everywhere in the Atlantic World in the early nineteenth century. It obviously flourished in Cuba and the American South but it was also vibrant in British Guiana. In this little studied but surprisingly important set of nineteenth-century British colonies in the Americas, new and repressive forms of slave management contributed to creating a very harsh form of enslavement. How did enslaved people, especially women, cope with the situation they found themselves in ? An especially rich set of records, in which we have direct testimony from slave women, allows these women to speak to us. What they show is a counter-discourse from enslaved people to the ideas of amelioration and “improvement” advocated by planters. Drawing on notions of moral economy, this seminar explores enslaved women’s notions of what a slave system should be and the reciprocal rights owed by owners to slaves, as much as those that slaves were obligated to provide to masters."
- Jeudi 26 novembre 2015, 17h-19h, salle 8, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 PARIS : "The Somerset case of 1772, Granville Sharp and the Birth of West Indian Proslavery" (dans le séminaire du CIRESC sur "Esclaves, affranchis et ’nouveaux libres’ dans l’espace public du monde atlantique : race, agentivité et citoyenneté")
"When Lord Mansfield decided that the slave James Somerset was entitled to habeas corpus in 1772, it was both a vindication of the determined lobbying of Britain’s first antislavery advocate, Granville Sharp, and also a first warning shot from the imperial centre to a self-confident West Indian and British slave trading interest, showing that a significant body of metropolitan opinion was determined to inflict sever economic damage on the region, by denying that British laws and colonial laws relating to slavery went together. This paper examines both how the case came into being, including the pivotal role played by Granville Sharp in this process, and also the responses made by West Indian writers protesting about the decision. I argue that one usually overlooked aspect of the controversy over Somerset was that it was not just a debate over the morality or otherwise of slavery and the slave trade but it was also a reflection of the very mixed image that West Indians had in how they presented themselves and their behaviour to a British audience. That audience was increasingly interested in imperial matters after the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 and increasingly appalled by what they saw as British actions abroad. By failing to confront the representational battle – how West Indians were portrayed by their abolitionist opponents – West Indians arguing in favour of proslavery missed a major tool in the abolitionists’ armoury. This failure to counter the negative image of West Indians came to hurt them as anti-imperialist and anti-West Indian feeling became more pronounced in Britain during the American Revolution and especially during the 1780s."
- Vendredi 27 novembre 2015, 16h-18h, ENS, salle IHMC, escalier D, 3e étage, 45 rue d’Ulm 75005 PARIS : "Plantation Machines : Comparing Jamaica and Saint-Domingue as Atlantic Societies, 1748-1788" (dans le séminaire de Philippe Minard sur "Etat, travail et société - Angleterre, France et colonies, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles")
"The sudden arrival of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 and the equally sudden success of the British abolition movement from 1788 meant that we find it hard to see Jamaica and Saint-Domingue as places of prosperity, social invention and geo-political importance. Yet in the years between the Seven Years’ War and the French Revolution, both colonies were at the centre of French and British imaginings of the New World. A comparison of the two places shows some differences but many structural similarities, especially in the development of a relentless brutal but efficient plantation machine in which slaves were worked very hard for the benefit of a tiny elite of white owners. This plantation machine made both colonies rich and powerful but also intensely disturbing, at least for observers worried about the social implication of living in societies in which nearly everything was commoditized and where money was the measure of all things."
- Mardi 1er décembre 2015, 16h-18h, salle 12, CENA, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 PARIS : "As Much Trading as Planting Places : Urban Worlds in Jamaica and Saint Domingue, 1745-1793" (dans mon séminaire sur l’histoire comparée des traites, esclavages et abolitions dans les mondes atlantiques)
"The British and French Caribbean in the eighteenth century are usually viewed through the prism of the plantation alone. Yet while the plantation was undoubtedly important, both Saint-Domingue and Jamaica in the Greater Antilles had a significant urban dimension. Cap Français and Kingston were vibrant, dynamic and transformative places that intersected with the plantation system but were coterminous with it. An examination of these two places during a period where provincial towns were growing and becoming more important everywhere in British and French America helps us to understand why contemporaries found the West Indies to be at the forefront of fascinating yet often disturbing processes of modernization. It also allows us to examine the role of commerce as a pulse in shaping life in plantation societies."
Vous êtes cordialement invité-e-s à assister à ces conférences dans la limite des places disponibles.
Source de l’information : Cécile Vidal, via la liste de diffusion de l’AHMUF (Association des historiens modernistes des universités françaises) :
http://cena.ehess.fr/index.php?572
- Mardi 17 novembre 2015, 16h-18h, salle 12, CENA, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 PARIS : "The Making of Plantation Societies in the Greater Antilles in the Eighteenth-Century" (dans mon séminaire sur l’histoire comparée des traites, esclavages et abolitions dans les mondes atlantiques)
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Lettre du GIS-Réseau Asie et Pacifique de Novembre 2015
Le 18 novembre 2015 à 15h38
La Lettre du GIS-Réseau Asie et Pacifique de Novembre 2015 vient de paraître :
http://www.reseau-asie.com/userfiles/file/lettre74_nov2015.pdf
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Exposition de tissus du Vietnam (Lisbonne, jusqu’au 30 novembre 2015)
Le 18 novembre 2015 à 14h58
Exposition de tissus du Vietnam
Mostra de Têxteis do Vietname
Patente ao público até 30 de Novembro
Na Escola Artística António Arroio, Lisboa
Lisbonne, jusqu’au 30 novembre 2015
"Nos inícios do século XVI, após a conquista de Malaca por Afonso de Albuquerque em 1511, novos caminhos e novas perspectivas de comércio se perfilaram no horizonte dos Portugueses, já habituados a navegar em mares desconhecidos. Coube a Tomé Pires a tarefa de se informar junto de outros estrangeiros mercadores e de transmitir esses saberes na Suma Oriental que enviou a D. Manuel I.
Foi nesse contexto que surgiu pela primeira vez, em língua portuguesa, uma referência às terras do “Reino do Champá” e do“Reino da Cochinchina” (ou Cauchinchina) que desde 1802 passaram a ser designadas por Vietname. Escreveu Tomé Pires que na “Cauchinchina” tinham toda a variedade de tafetás, melhores, maiores, mais largos e finos que em todas as outras partes e as melhores sedas soltas coloridas ; tudo isto muito fino e feito sem a falsidade que tinham as coisas de outras partes .
Se já no século XVI eram muito apreciadas as sedas da “Cochinchina”, nos séculos posteriores os antepassados dos Vietnamitas exportaram cada vez maior quantidade para novos mercados, europeus e asiáticos e parte dessa produção foi escoada pelos Portugueses.
Com as vicissitudes das guerras e a consequente deslocação de povos, ao longo dos tempos, as montanhas do Vietname acolheram novos grupos étnicos minoritários que se fixaram na terra, com o seu saber e experiência, nomeadamente os povos do grupo Thay, mestres na arte da tecelagem.
Esta pequena mostra, de uma colecção particular, exemplifica alguma da diversidade da produção têxtil dos nossos dias produzida em território vietnamita e insere-se no âmbito das comemorações dos 500 Anos de Amizade Portugal-Vietname a decorrerem em 2015-2016."
Source de l’information :
http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/ac_actividade.aspx?ActId=364
