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Vient de paraître Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money. A Global History de Bin
Yang chez RoutledgeLe 25 juin 2020 à 08h26
Vient de paraître Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money. A Global History de Bin
Yang chez Routledge, coll. "Routledge Approaches to History", 2019, 308 p. ISBN : 9780367484316 Prix : 36,99 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
Préface de PatrickManning .
"Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era, and in many cases, it was gradually transformed into a form of money in various societies for a long span of time. Yang provides a global examination of cowrie money within and beyond Afro-Eurasia from the archaeological period to the early twentieth century.
By focusing on cowrie money in Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian and West African societies and shell money in Pacific and North American societies, Yang synthsises and illustrates the economic and cultural connections, networks and interactions over a longue durée and in a cross-regional context. Analysing locally varied experiences of cowrie money from a global perspective, Yang argued that cowrie money was the first global money that shaped Afro-Eurasian societies both individually and collectively. He proposes a paradigm of the cowrie money world that engages local, regional, transregional and global themes. "
BinYang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Macau. His research interests include Chinese history, frontier and ethnic studies, Sino-Southeast Asian-Indian triangular interactions, world history, and history of science, technology and medicine. His dissertation "Between Winds and Clouds : The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE – Twentieth Century CE)" won the 2004 Gutenberg-e Prize of the American Historical Association, and it was published online as well as in print by Columbia University Press. He has published research papers in some internationally prestigious journals such as The China Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, Journal of World History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and Journal of Women’s History. He is one of the founding member of the Asian Association of World Historians and serves as Manning Editor of the Asian Reviews of World Histories. -
Vient de paraître Leaders assassinés en Afrique centrale, 1958-1961. Entre construction nationale et régulation des relations internationales de Karine
Ramondy chez L’HarmattanLe 23 juin 2020 à 16h03
Vient de paraître Leaders assassinés en Afrique centrale, 1958-1961. Entre construction nationale et régulation des relations internationales de Karine
Ramondy chez L’Harmattan, coll. "Études africaines - Histoire", 2020, 596 p. ISBN : 978-2-343-19829-3 Prix : 39 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
Préface d’ElikiaM’Bokolo
"En suivant la trajectoire de quatre leaders d’Afrique centrale au temps des indépendances – Barthélémy Boganda (République centrafricaine), Patrice Lumumba (République du Congo), Félix Moumié et Ruben Um Nyobè (Cameroun) –, cet ouvrage interroge : en quoi l’assassinat politique peut-il constituer un moyen de réguler les relations internationales et être l’un des fondements de la construction nationale de leur pays d’origine ?Au fil de l’itinéraire politique de ces leaders, de façon comparée, sont évoquées leurs désillusions onusiennes et panafricaines qui resserrent sur eux l’étau mortel d’une Realpolitik, entre bipolarisation et néocolonialisme. Cette étude permet de faire émerger des invariants à l’assassinat politique sous forme de processus récurrents : arme judiciaire, arme médiatique, absence de sépulture décente, damnatio memoriae dont les leaders sont frappés. Ces processus aboutissent a contrario à une inversion symbolique et iconique. Cet ouvrage s’appuie sur de nombreuses sources complétées afin de reconstituer l’enchaînement des événements et de nouvelles interprétations : archives privées inédites, archives publiques dont certaines ont été déclassifiées pour cette recherche, sources audiovisuelles et imprimées, témoignages oraux inédits recueillis par l’auteure. Un ouvrage qui renouvelle l’historiographie des indépendances et l’histoire des mémoires en Afrique centrale."
KarineRamondy (https://twitter.com/KRamondy) est chercheuse-associée à l’UMR SIRICE Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ses recherches s’articulent autour de l’histoire de l’Afrique dans les relations internationales au XXe siècle, l’histoire des élites africaines et du panafricanisme et l’histoire du corps. Elle a participé à l’ouvrage collectif La mort du bourreau, paru sous la direction de Sévane Garibian aux Éditions Pétra (2016). -
Vient de paraître le dossier « Esclavage, mémoire et pouvoir : la France et ses anciennes colonies » dans la revue Histoire sociale sous la direction d’Audra A.
Diptée et MyriamCottias Le 23 juin 2020 à 15h42
Vient de paraître le dossier « Esclavage, mémoire et pouvoir : la France et ses anciennes colonies » dans la revue Histoire sociale/Social history sous la direction d’Audra A.
Diptée et MyriamCottias , 2020, n° 53, 194 p.
La version électronique de la revue et du dossier est également disponible sur Project MUSE.
Source de l’information :
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Vient de paraître The Iberian World, 1450–1820 sous la direction de Fernando
Bouza , PedroCardim et AntonioFeros chez RoutledgeLe 23 juin 2020 à 13h59
Vient de paraître The Iberian World, 1450–1820 sous la direction de Fernando
Bouza , PedroCardim et AntonioFeros chez Routledge, coll. "Routledge Worlds", 2019, 712 p. ISBN : 9781138921016 Prix : 190 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"The Iberian World : 1450–1820 brings together, for the first time in English, the latest research in Iberian studies, providing in-depth analysis of fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Portugal and Spain, their European possessions, and the African, Asian, and American peoples that were under their rule.
Featuring innovative work from leading historians of the Iberian world, the book adopts a strong transnational and comparative approach, and offers the reader an interdisciplinary lens through which to view the interactions, entanglements, and conflicts between the many peoples that were part of it. The volume also analyses the relationships and mutual influences between the wide range of actors, polities, and centres of power within the Iberian monarchies, and draws on recent advances in the field to examine key aspects such as Iberian expansion, imperial ideologies, and the constitution of colonial societies.
Divided into four parts and combining a chronological approach with a set of in-depth thematic studies, The Iberian World brings together previously disparate scholarly traditions surrounding the history of European empires and raises awareness of the global dimensions of Iberian history. It is essential reading for students and academics of early modern Spain and Portugal."
FernandoBouza is Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and a specialist in early modern Iberian culture and politics. He is the author of Portugal no tempo dos Filipes. Política, cultura, representações (1580–1668) (2000) ; Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain (2004) ; and Hétérographies. Formes de l’écrit au Siècle d’Or espagnol (2010).
PedroCardim is Associate Professor of early modern history at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and the author of Portugal unido y separado. Felipe II, la unión de territorios y la condición política del reino de Portugal (2014) ; and Portugal y la Monarquía Hispánica (ca. 1550–ca. 1715) (2017).
AntonioFeros is Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of numerous publications on early modern Spanish history. He recently published a book entitled Speaking of Spain. The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World (2017). -
Vient de paraître Decolonising Europe ? Popular Responses to the End of Empire sous la direction de Berny
Sèbe et Matthew G.Stanard chez RoutledgeLe 23 juin 2020 à 13h44
Vient de paraître Decolonising Europe ? Popular Responses to the End of Empire sous la direction de Berny
Sèbe et Matthew G.Stanard chez Routledge, coll. "Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000", 2020, 280 p. ISBN : 9780367139605 Prix : 120 £ (existe également en version numérique).
"Decolonising Europe ? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of cultural inertia, but a development marked by fluidity, movement, and dynamism. Rather than being a static process where Europe’s (former) metropoles and their peoples ‘at home’ reacted to the end of empire ‘out there’, decolonisation translated into new realities for Europe’s cultures, societies, and politics as flows, ebbs, fluxes, and cultural refluxes reshaped both former colonies and former metropoles.
The volume’s contributors set out a carefully crafted panorama of decolonisation’s sequels in European popular culture by means of in-depth studies of specific cases and media, analysing the interwoven meaning, momentum, memory, material culture, and migration patterns of the end of empire across eight major European countries.
The revised meaning of ‘decolonisation’ that emerges will challenge scholars in several fields, and the panorama of new research in the book charts paths for new investigations. The question mark in the title asks not only how European cultures experienced the ‘end of empire’ but also the extent to which this is still a work in progress."
BernySèbe is Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Vient de paraître Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa de Paul E.
Lovejoy chez RoutledgeLe 23 juin 2020 à 13h24
Vient de paraître Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa de Paul E.
Lovejoy chez Routledge, coll. "Global Africa", 2019, 298 p. ISBN : 9781138059542 Prix : 120 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.
The study explores the conceptual problems of studying slavery in Africa and the broader Atlantic world from a perspective that focuses on Africa and the historical context that accounts for this influence. Paul Lovejoy focuses on the parameters of the enforced migration of enslaved Africans, including the impact on civilian populations in Africa, constraints on migration, and the importance of women and children in the movement of people who were enslaved. The prevalence of slavery in Africa and the transformations of social and political formations of societies and political structures during the era of trans-Atlantic migration inform the book’s research. The analysis places Africa, specifically western Africa, at the center of historical change, not on the frontier or periphery of western Europe or the Americas, and provides a global perspective that reconsiders historical reconstruction of the Atlantic world that challenges the distortions of Eurocentrism and national histories.
Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, African history, Diaspora Studies, the Black Atlantic and the history of slavery. "
Paul E.Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. -
Vient de paraître The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800 sous la direction de Claire
Jowitt , CraigLambert et SteveMentz chez RoutledgeLe 22 juin 2020 à 15h57
Vient de paraître The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800 sous la direction de Claire
Jowitt , CraigLambert et SteveMentz chez Routledge, coll. "Routledge Companion", 2020, 610 p. ISBN : 9780367471842 Prix : 190 £ (existe également en version électronique).
"The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field.
Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global ideas. This comprehensive volume challenges underlying assumptions by balancing its assessment of the consequences and accomplishments of European navigators in the era of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan, with an awareness of the sophistication and maritime expertise in Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas. By imparting riveting new stories and global perceptions of maritime history and culture, the contributors provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between humans and the vast, unpredictable ocean.
With maritime studies growing and the ocean’s health in decline, this volume is essential reading for academics and students interested in the historicization of the ocean and the ways early modern cultures both conceptualized and utilized seas."
ClaireJowitt is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of East Anglia. Author of Voyage Drama and Gender Politics, 1589‒1642 and The Culture of Piracy : English Literature and Seaborne Crime 1580‒1630, she is currently preparing, as General Editor, an edition of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations (1598‒1600).
CraigLambert is Associate Professor in Maritime History at the University of Southampton. Author of Shipping the Medieval Military and numerous articles/book chapters on naval operations and maritime communities (c.1300‒c.1600), he has recently launched a free to access searchable database of over 50,000 ship-voyages (c.1400‒c.1577) : www.medievalandtudorships.org
SteveMentz is Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City. A scholar of early modern literature and the environmental humanities, he is author of Shipwreck Modernity : Ecologies of Globalization 1550‒1719 (2015), Break Up the Anthropocene (2019), and Ocean (2020). -
Vient de paraître The Private Side of the Canton Trade, 1700–1840. Beyond the Companies sous la direction de Paul A.
Van Dyke and Susan E.Schopp aux Hong Kong University PressLe 3 juin 2020 à 15h57
Vient de paraître The Private Side of the Canton Trade, 1700–1840. Beyond the Companies sous la direction de Paul A.
Van Dyke and Susan E.Schopp aux Hong Kong University Press, 2018, 208 p. ISBN : 978-988-8390-93-9 Prix : 60 $ (existe aussi en version électronique sur Project Muse).
"It is not often recognized that China was one of the few places in the early modern world where all merchants had equal access to the market. This study shows that private traders, regardless of the volume of their trade, were granted the same privileges in Canton as the large East India companies. All of these companies relied, to some extent, on private capital to finance their operations. Without the investments from individuals, the trade with China would have been greatly hindered. Competitors, large and small, traded alongside each other while enemies traded alongside enemies. Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, Parsees, Armenians, Hindus, and others lived and worked within the small area in the western suburbs of Canton designated for foreigners. Cantonese shopkeepers were not allowed to discriminate against any foreign traders. In fact, the shopkeepers were generally working in a competitive environment, providing customer-oriented service that generated goodwill, friendship, and trust. These contributed to the growth of the trade as a whole. While many private traders were involved in smuggling opium, others, such as Nathan Dunn, were much opposed to it. The case studies in this volume demonstrate that fortunes could be made in China by trading in legitimate items just as successfully as in illegitimate ones, which tellingly suggests that the rapid spread of opium smuggling in China could be a result of inadequate, rather than excessive, regulation by the Qing government."
Paul A.Van Dyke is professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and author of Merchants of Canton and Macao : Success and Failure in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade (Hong Kong University Press, 2015). Susan E.Schopp is a historian whose research focuses on the French Canton trade and on East India ships. In 1997 she identified the wreck of the English East India Company vessel Earl Temple. She is also a crew member of Friendship of Salem, a reconstruction of an American East Indiaman. -
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 PressLe 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 AlanErbig Jr. (https://twitter.com/jaerbig) is assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. -
Vient de paraître The Gulf of Mexico. A Maritime History de John S.
Sledge aux University of South Carolina PressLe 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.