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Articles d’histoire ultramarine dans le n° 380 des Annales historiques de la Révolution française (juin 2015)
Le 1er juillet 2015 à 17h32
Vient de paraître le n° 380 des Annales historiques de la Révolution française chez Armand Colin (juin 2015).
On trouvera avec intérêt deux articles concernant l’histoire ultramarine :
– « Des chemins périlleux. Le voyage des conventionnels des colonies vers Paris (1793-1794) », de Matthieu CARLOT, p. 3-23.
– Regards croisés : Lumières et esclavage, de Bernard GAINOT, Marcel DORIGNY, Jean EHRARD et Alyssa Goldstein SEPINWALL, p. 149-169.
Merci à Dominique Taurisson-Mouret pour le signalement de cette précieuse information sur le site Histoire du droit des colonies (Faculté de droit de Montpellier / UMR 5815 Dynamiques du droit). -
Vient de paraître le numéro de juin de Hérodote sur le thème "Les enjeux géopolitiques du Viet Nâm"
Le 1er juillet 2015 à 17h03
"Le Viêt Nam a, en France, une image singulière : l’aura de son armée victorieuse des États-Unis et de la Chine et, d’autre part, sa forte croissance économique depuis la mise en place d’une politique économique libérale le Doi Moi, qui suscite respect et curiosité.
Pour analyser la place et le rôle de ce pays dans la situation géopolitique actuelle de l’Asie du Sud-Est, Benoît de Tréglodé, spécialiste du Viêt Nam, a contribué à réunir, pour ce numéro, des spécialistes abordant les thèmes qui sont moins connus mais pourtant très éclairants pour comprendre la singularité géopolitique du pays. Ainsi, y sont analysées les conséquences géopolitiques du conflit qui a opposé en 1977 le Cambodge et le Viêt Nam, fracturant le Bloc communiste dix ans avant la chute du mur de Berlin ; les relations complexes et ambiguës du Viêt Nam avec son voisin chinois ; les conséquences sociales et environnementales de la forte croissance économique depuis le Doi Moi, générant tensions sociales mais aussi des mutations rapides de l’organisation de l’espace. Enfin, la situation actuelle des religions montre non seulement le « caractère multiple du fait religieux, avec ses diverses voies et religions, mais aussi une conscience citoyenne de ces forces religieuses."
Hérodote. Revue de géographie et de géopolitique n° 157 — Les enjeux géopolitiques du Viet Nâm (deuxième trimestre 2015)Présentation par la rédaction Hérodote
Éditorial par Béatrice Giblin
« Viêt Nam, le Parti, l’armée et le peuple : Maintenir l’emprise politique à l’heure de l’ouverture » par Benoît De Tréglodé
« La Géopolitique vietnamienne vue de l’Eurasie : Quelles leçons de la troisième guerre d’Indochine pour aujourd’hui ? » par Christopher Goscha
« La Maritimisation de l’économie vietnamienne : un facteur exacerbant les conflits entre le Viêt Nam et la Chine en mer de Chine méridionale ? » par Nathalie Fau
« Le Viêt Nam et l’ASEAN : Dépasser la stratégie de l’utilitaire » par Sophie Boisseau du Rocher
« Le Viêt Nam sera-t-il le meilleur allié des États-Unis en Asie ? » par Pierre Grosser
« Les Relations ambivalentes entre l’État-parti vietnamien et les Vietnamiens de l’étranger » par Pierre Journoud
« Géopolitique des religions au Viêt Nam. Les voies multipolaires d’une société civile confessionnelle » par Paul Sorrentino, Jérémy Jamme
« La Cybersécurité au Viêt Nam : formulation et mise en œuvre d’une nouvelle stratégie » par Candice Trân Dai
« Géopolitique des ressources naturelles et énergétiques au Viêt Nam : un ancrage économiquement viable ? » par Éric Mottet, Frédéric Lasserre
« Viêt Nam : les « nouveaux territoires » d’une modernisation inégalitaire » par Christophe Gironde, Olivier Tessier
« Gestion foncière métropolitaine et confrontations entre société villageoise et État/province (delta du fleuve Rouge) » par Sylvie Fanchette -
Vient de paraître The Lion Wakes. A Modern History of HSBC de David Kynaston et Richard Roberts chez Profile Books
Le 1er juillet 2015 à 16h24
Vient de paraître The Lion Wakes. A Modern History of HSBC de David Kynaston et Richard Roberts chez Profile Books, 2015, 784 p. ISBN : 9781781250556 Prix : 30 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"The Lion Wakes tells the modern story of HSBC, starting in the late 1970s, when the bank first broke out of the Asia-Pacific region with its purchase of Marine Midland Bank in the US. It follows HSBC’s battle to purchase Midland Bank in1992, the subsequent move of head office from Hong Kong to London, and the string of acquisitions that brought the bank to its pre-eminent place in global finance today. Acclaimed historians Richard Roberts and David Kynaston chronicle the bank’s struggles as well as its successes : the last part of the book deals with the ill-fated move into consumer finance in the US, as well as the financial crisis of 2008 and its effect on HSBC. Impeccably researched and generously illustrated from the HSBC archives, this is a valuable addition to global financial history."
David Kynaston is a critically acclaimed historian and author, and the recipient of a Spear’s Book Award for his lifetime achievement as a British historian. His books include a three volume history of postwar Britain ; Austerity Britain (longlisted for The Orwell Prize), Family Britain and Modernity Britain (longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), which has sold 150,000 copies, as well as a four-volume history of the City of London, and the centenary history of the Financial Times. Richard Roberts, a professor at King’s College London, is the author of studies of Schroders, Equitable Life, Orion, and the financial crisis of 1914.
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Appel à communication pour l’atelier "New directions in Imperial Labour History" (First Conference of the European Labour History Network, Turin, 14-16 décembre 2015)
Le 29 juin 2015 à 12h18
Appel à communication pour l’atelier
New directions in Imperial Labour History
First Conference of the European Labour History Network
Turin, 14-16 décembre 2015
The deadline for proposals is 31 August 2015.
Conference language : English
The European Labour History Network is hosting its first conference at the University of Turin from 14-16 December 2015 (Call for Papers/Contributions of the ELHN Conference 2015
). The aim of the conference is to connect historians working in the sub-fields associated with Labour History, one of which is imperial labour history. CIGH’s Gareth Curless and Yann Beliard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, are responsible for co-ordinating the Imperial Labour History Group. As part of the conference, Gareth and Yann will be organising a workshop on the subject of imperial labour history. The objective of the workshop is to consider imperial labour history within the wider context of imperial historiography, investigating how labour historians can contribute to ‘new imperial history’, as well as emerging trends resulting from the ‘global’ or ‘transnational turn’. The Call for Papers can be found below and the organisers would welcome contributions from not just historians but also political scientists and social movement theorists.
The ‘cultural turn’ has revitalised the study of imperialism, moving imperial history away from its traditional focus on administrative and diplomatic elites, conquest and administration, and the geo-politics of empire, to subjects such as race, gender, and sexuality. Few studies, however, have focused on the concepts of class and labour. Such neglect is unsurprising but it is detrimental both to the study of empire and to the exploration of how imperialism affected metropolitan societies.
The impact of the labour issue on the territories colonised by the European powers, especially with regard race and gender, cannot underestimated : racial hierarchies were used by the imperial authorities to justify racially segregated labour regimes, while the introduction of new forms of production often had a disruptive impact on gender relations within colonial societies. In the metropoles too, empire and labour came to be part and parcel of the imperial experience, as workers from the colonies or ex-colonies became integrated, albeit problematically, within the domestic working-classes – while labour organisations strove to define a ‘correct’ attitude towards empire, imperialism and later decolonisation.
Colonial labourers were not passive bystanders in these processes : racial hierarchies could be subverted through the establishment of multi-racial associations, while the circulation of migrant labour helped to facilitate the transmission of ideas, discourses, and militant practices within and between empires, over which the imperial authorities exercised little or no control. As for the organised labour movement both in its metropolitan and colonial settings, it played a part in the rise and fall of empire, (most notably in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean during the decolonisation struggles after 1945, which is deserving of further attention.
In view of the importance of labour to the history of empires, the aim of this conference is to reintegrate the study of labour into imperial historiography and consider its relationship to recent developments in the field. With this in mind, the organisers of the Imperial History Working Group invite papers that address one or more of the following topics :
– Colonial labour regimes, including the relationship between labour and racial identity, workplace surveillance and resistance, and the political economy of colonial labour relations.
– Attitudes towards empire in the metropolitan labour movement, ranging from ‘reformist imperialism’ to overt anti-colonialism.
– Strikes, riots, and workplace stoppages in colonial settings ; imperial responses to labour unrest, including both its violent suppression and supposedly ‘non-violent’ methods, such as increased social welfare provision.
– The colonial workers’ experience in the metropole ; their relation to friendly societies, cooperatives, trade-unions and political parties.
– Empires, migrant labour and the development diasporic networks and identities.
– The role of labour uprisings and organisations in anti-colonial and nationalist movements.
– Transnational networks of labour activists, including both ‘indigenous’ labour leaders and metropolitan ones.
– The relationship between the labour rights in colonial contexts and the emergence of the global rights order, particularly after 1945.
– Labour after empire, including, for example, the relationship between the labour movement and the independent regimes of Africa and Asia during the 1950s and 1960s.
The contributors invite proposals for 20-minute papers that consider these issues in any of the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century European empires, as well as Latin America and the contiguous empires of the United States, Russia, and East Asia. Proposals, which should include a 300 word abstract and one page C.V., should be submitted to :
Gareth Curless (g.m.curless@ex.ac.uk) and Yann Beliard (yann.beliard@univ-paris3.fr).
Source de l’information :
http://imperialglobalexeter.com/2015/06/29/call-for-papers-new-directions-in-imperial-labour-history/
https://twitter.com/ExeterCIGH/status/615399976126918656
http://www.ith.or.at/ (International Conference of Labour and Social History).
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Vient de paraître Goods from the East, 1600-1800. Trading Eurasia sous la direction de Maxine Berg chez Palgrave Macmillan
Le 29 juin 2015 à 09h15
Vient de paraître Goods from the East, 1600-1800. Trading Eurasia sous la direction de Maxine Berg chez Palgrave Macmillan, "Europe’s Asian Centuries", 2015, 368 p. ISBN : 9781137403933 Prix : 68 £ (va être publié également en version électronique).
"The imperative of the long-distance seaborne trade of Europeans, from the age of exploration, was to acquire the goods of the exotic East – the silks and porcelains and tea of China, the spices of the spice islands and the textiles of India. Goods from the East focuses on the trade in fine products : how they were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe. This trade was conducted by East India Companies and many private traders, and the first Global Age that resulted deeply affected European consumption and manufacturing. This book provides a full comparative and connective study of Asia’s trade with a range of European countries. Its themes relate closely to issues of fine manufacturing and luxury goods in the current age of globalization. Goods from the East brings together established scholars, such as Jan de Vries, Om Prakash and Josh Gommans, and a new generation of researchers, who together look into the connections between European consumer cultures and Asian trade."
Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, where she has taught since 1978. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy, Founder and Co-Director of the Global History and Culture Centre at Warwick, and was Senior Researcher for the European Research Council. Her recent books include Writing the History of the Global : Challenges for the Twenty-first Century (2013) and Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2005). -
Paru récemment Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria de Sarah Abrevaya Stein aux University of Chicago Press
Le 28 juin 2015 à 22h02
Paru récemment Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria de Sarah Abrevaya Stein aux University of Chicago Press, 2014, 272 p/ ISBN : 9780226123745 Prix : 27,5 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria, Sarah Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of Algeria’s south were marginalized by French authorities, how they negotiated the sometimes brutal results, and what the reverberations have been in the postcolonial era.
Drawing on materials from thirty archives across six countries, Stein tells the story of colonial imposition on a desert community that had lived and traveled in the Sahara for centuries. She paints an intriguing historical picture—of an ancient community, trans-Saharan commerce, desert labor camps during World War II, anthropologist spies, battles over oil, and the struggle for Algerian sovereignty. Writing colonialism and decolonization into Jewish history and Jews into the French Saharan one, Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria is a fascinating exploration not of Jewish exceptionalism but of colonial power and its religious and cultural differentiations, which have indelibly shaped the modern world."
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Paru récemment Islam and the European Empires sous la direction de David Motadel aux Oxford UP
Le 28 juin 2015 à 14h28
Paru récemment Islam and the European Empires sous la direction de David Motadel aux Oxford University Press, "The Past & Present Book Series", 2014, 336 p. ISBN :978-0-19-966831-1 Prix : 26,25 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic world. The British, French, Russian, and Dutch empires each governed more Muslims than any independent Muslim state. European officials believed Islam to be of great political significance, and were quite cautious when it came to matters of the religious life of their Muslim subjects. In the colonies, they regularly employed Islamic religious leaders and institutions to bolster imperial rule. At the same time, the European presence in Muslim lands was confronted by religious resistance movements and Islamic insurgency. Across the globe, from the West African savanna to the shores of Southeast Asia, Muslim rebels called for holy war against non-Muslim intruders.
Islam and the European Empires presents the first comparative account of the engagement of all major European empires with Islam. Bringing together fifteen of the world’s leading scholars in the field, the volume explores a wide array of themes, ranging from the accommodation of Islam under imperial rule to Islamic anti-colonial resistance. A truly global history of empire, the volume makes a major contribution not only to our knowledge of the intersection of Islam and imperialism, but also more generally to our understanding of religion and power in the modern world."
Edited by David Motadel, Research Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Contributors : Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Felicitas Becker, University of Cambridge ; Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona ; Robert D. Crews, Stanford University ; Faisal Devji, Oxford University ; Rebekka Habermas, University of Göttingen ; Benjamin D. Hopkins, George Washington University ; Gerrit Knaap, Huygens Institute, The Hague ; David Motadel, University of Cambridge ; Michael A. Reynolds, Princeton University ; Umar Ryad, Utrecht University ; John Slight, University of Cambridge ; Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University ; George R. Trumbull IV, Dartmouth College ; Knut S. Vikør, University of Bergen. -
Vient de paraître Empire by Treaty. Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 sous la direction de Saliha Belmessous aux Oxford UP
Le 27 juin 2015 à 18h11
Vient de paraître Empire by Treaty. Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 sous la direction de Saliha Belmessous aux Oxford University Press, 2015, 304 p. ISBN : 978-0-19-939178-3 Prix : 47,99 £.
"Most histories of European appropriation of indigenous territories have, until recently, focused on conquest and occupation, while relatively little attention has been paid to the history of treaty-making. Yet treaties were also a means of extending empire. To grasp the extent of European legal engagement with indigenous peoples, Empire by Treaty : Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 looks at the history of treaty-making in European empires (Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French and British) from the early 17th to the late 19th century, that is, during both stages of European imperialism. While scholars have often dismissed treaties assuming that they would have been fraudulent or unequal, this book argues that there was more to the practice of treaty-making than mere commercial and political opportunism. Indeed, treaty-making was also promoted by Europeans as a more legitimate means of appropriating indigenous sovereignties and acquiring land than were conquest or occupation, and therefore as a way to reconcile expansion with moral and juridical legitimacy. As for indigenous peoples, they engaged in treaty-making as a way to further their interests even if, on the whole, they gained far less than the Europeans from those agreements and often less than they bargained for. The vexed history of treaty-making presents particular challenges for the great expectations placed in treaties for the resolution of conflicts over indigenous rights in post-colonial societies. These hopes are held by both indigenous peoples and representatives of the post-colonial state and yet, both must come to terms with the complex and troubled history of treaty-making over 400 years of empire. Empire by Treaty looks at treaty-making in Dutch Colonial Expansion, Spanish-Portuguese border in the Americas, Aboriginal Land in Canada, French Colonial West Africa, and British India."
Edited by Saliha Belmessous, senior research fellow, University of New South Wales
Saliha Belmessous is a senior research fellow at the University of New South Wales. She researches and writes about European colonial ideologies and the imperial experiences of indigenous peoples. She has held research fellowships in the United States and Australia. Her most recent publications include Assimilation and Empire : Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954 (Oxford University Press, 2013) ; she is the editor of Native claims : Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Contributors :
Alain Beaulieu, professor in history, Université du Québec à Montréal
Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese History, Harvard University.
Paul Patton, Scientia Professor in philosophy, University of New South Wales.
Daniel Richter, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania.
Rebecca Shumway, faculty affiliate of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert Travers, associate professor of history at Cornell University.
Damen Ward, Senior Associate, Simpson Grierson, Wellington and an adjunct research associate in law at Victoria, University of Wellington.
Arthur Weststeijn, director of historical studies, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. -
Vient de paraître Les savoirs-mondes. Mobilités et circulation des savoirs depuis le Moyen Âge sous la direction de Pilar González Bernaldo et Liliane Hilaire-Peréz aux PU de Rennes
Le 27 juin 2015 à 10h08
Vient de paraître Les savoirs-mondes. Mobilités et circulation des savoirs depuis le Moyen Âge sous la direction de Pilar González Bernaldo et Liliane Hilaire-Peréz aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes, "HIstoire", 2015, 514 p. ISBN : 978-2-7535-3517-6 Prix : 25 €.
Préface de Daniel Roche
"Mobilités et circulation des savoirs : le thème de ce volume est le fruit d’un colloque du « Laboratoire Identités Cultures Territoires » (ict) de l’université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 tenu en 2011. Réunissant des historiens du Moyen Âge jusqu’au monde contemporain et des civilisationnistes spécialistes de diverses aires culturelles (anglophone, germanique et hispanique), cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans le contexte actuel de décloisonnement disciplinaire des sciences humaines et d’essor des études transnationales, connectées et globales. Il se compose de six chapitres : « Entre miroirs au prince et vision du monde », « Circulation des corps et savoirs sexués », « l’acclimatation métropolitaine des savoirs sur le lointain », « Circulation des savoirs techniques : la territorialité mise à l’épreuve », « Cultures européennes de la traduction », « Circulation des savoirs pouvoir dans l’espace atlantique ». Ils révèlent la diversité des objets analysés : savoirs scientifiques, savoirs techniques, savoirs économiques et gestionnaires, savoirs administratifs et juridiques, savoirs sur l’homme, savoirs du corps, savoirs du genre, savoirs érudits et littéraires. À travers cet éventail, les auteurs présentent des recherches sur les sociétés dans leur diversité, à l’échelle du monde et sur la longue durée, et promeuvent l’étude des transversalités culturelles. L’intérêt des auteurs pour les circulations des savoirs est donc pluriel : il comprend aussi bien les interrogations spatiales (la relation aux territoires, aux frontières et aux pouvoirs) que les problématiques liées aux transferts culturels, aux hybridations et aux cultures de la mobilité - des thématiques dont Daniel Roche rappelle dans la préface, le puissant renouvellement historiographique." -
Vient de paraître Partager le monde. Rivalités impériales franco‐anglaises (1748‐1756) de François Ternat aux PU de Paris-Sorbonne
Le 26 juin 2015 à 22h53
Vient de paraître Partager le monde. Rivalités impériales franco‐anglaises (1748‐1756) de François Ternat aux Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2015, 420 p. ISBN : 978‐2‐84050‐985‐1 Prix : 26 €.
Préface de Lucien Bély
"Guerres et paix ont jalonné le duel franco‐britannique, une des trames essentielles des relations internationales au XVIIIe siècle. Or c’est ce même siècle des Lumières qui a sanctionné l’idée d’équilibre des puissances, balance of powers, pour limiter les conflits et « préserver la paix ». Le présent travail se situe pendant la courte période de paix qui sépare deux conflits européens majeurs, et à l’échelle mondiale, où s’affrontèrent la Grande‐Bretagne et la France, la guerre de Succession d’Autriche (1740‐1748) et la guerre de Sept Ans (1756‐1763).
Il s’agit d’étudier, au mitan du siècle, les négociations franco‐anglaises étendues aux espaces maritimes et coloniaux pendant cet entre‐deux‐guerres, visant à se partager le monde, avant que ne fût définitivement effacée la présence française en Amérique du Nord et en Inde, et de s’interroger sur les représentations et les visions géostratégiques du monde qui guidèrent, à la cour de Versailles comme à celle de Saint James, l’action des diplomates concernant l’Outre‐mer, ce qui est une grande nouveauté au XVIIIe siècle."
François Ternat est professeur agrégé d’histoire à l’ESPE de l’université de Rouen, docteur en histoire moderne, chercheur situé à la croisée de deux domaines historiographiques, l’histoire de la diplomatie et celle des mondes coloniaux, il est dorénavant spécialisé dans l’étude de la « diplomatie‐monde » expérimentée et pratiquée au XVIIIe siècle par les cours européennes.Sources de l’information :
https://twitter.com/histoiremoderne/status/613999126582304768
http://ahmuf.hypotheses.org/3958














