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Vient de paraître Juin 1940. Combats et massacres en Lyonnais de Julien
Fargettas aux éditions du PoutanLe 19 mai 2020 à 16h10
Vient de paraître Juin 1940. Combats et massacres en Lyonnais (Tarare, Pontcharra, Bully, L’Arbresle, Lentilly, Lissieu, Chasselay, Saint-Germain, Champagne, Lyon) de Julien
Fargettas aux éditions du Poutan, 2020, 250 p. ISBN : 978-2-37553-075-7 Prix : 21 €.
"Juin 1940. Le 10, sur la Somme et l’Aisne, les dernières lignes de défense française ont cédé, le gouvernement a fui Paris et, le 17, Pétain a demandé à l’armée de cesser le combat… Les 19 et 20 juin pourtant, le 25e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais reçoit l’ordre de « résister sans esprit de recul même débordé » pour tenter d’endiguer le déferlement des troupes allemandes sur les nationales 6 et 7, au nord de Lyon.
Quatre-vingts ans plus tard, l’historien Julien Fargettas, ancien officier de l’armée de terre, spécialiste des soldats noirs auxquels il a notamment consacré sa thèse de doctorat, revient pour nous sur les combats de Chasselay, objets de ses premières recherches.
Avec rigueur et clarté, il nous donne les éléments permettant de comprendre le pourquoi de cet engagement et de ces décennies de présence africaine en Lyonnais. Non sans émotion, il nous fait ensuite le récit des combats et des terribles massacres qui s’ensuivirent. Il s’interroge enfin sur les mémoires de cette tragédie et les manques du légitime hommage qui doit être rendu à ces hommes."
Avec la contribution de Baptiste Garin, « Chasselay : anatomie d’un massacre », basée sur la découverte en 2019 de huit photographies allemandes qui documentent chacune des étapes de ce crime de guerre.
Docteur en histoire de l’IEP d’Aix-en-Provence, ancien officier de l’armée de Terre, JulienFargettas , est directeur de l’ONACVG (Office national des anciens combattants et victimes de guerre) pour le département de la Loire. Auteur d’un premier ouvrage couvrant la période de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Les Tirailleurs sénégalais. Les soldats noirs entre légende et réalité (1939-1945) (Taillandier, 2012), il a par la suite orienté ses recherches sur le temps de la décolonisation, ce qui a donné lieu à une nouvelle publication : La fin de la « Force Noire ». Les soldats africains et la décolonisation française (Les Indes Savantes, 2019). -
Vient de paraître Banking in China (1890s–1940s). Business in the French Concessions d’Hubert
Bonin chez RoutledgeLe 18 mai 2020 à 12h56
Vient de paraître Banking in China (1890s–1940s). Business in the French Concessions d’Hubert
Bonin chez Routledge, 2020, 340 p. ISBN : 9780367466572 Prix : 120 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders asserted their philosophy of competition, and displayed their means of influence and investment. In this book, the author assesses the challenges which confronted French actors in the face of powerful British imperial action overseas, all the more so because German Belgian, Japanese, and then also North-American competitors joined the fray.
The book targets three concessions : Canton/Guangzhou, Tientsin/Tianjin, and Hankeou/Wuhan because of their significance in the emergence of a modern economy in the country. The three main sections of the book explore the position of French stakeholders, mainly businessmen, merchant houses, bankers, and a few industrialists, in these three port-cities and China overall. The chapters gauge their capital of influence and networking, commercial tools, and banking skills in the face of competition, the hardships of crossing the changes in economic productive systems or clusters in the various port-cities and their areas, rich with commercial offshoots. Also, several chapters underscore the uncertainties caused by geopolitical and military events in China. For each of the three concessions, commercial and banking systems, assessments of the successes and limits of the French bankers and merchants are investigated, with the aim of evaluating the reality of French entrepreneurialism and power in the regions prospected by the offshoots of French capitalism.
The book will be an invaluable resource for academics interested in the history of banking and finance, business, entrepreneurship, colonialism and "economic patriotism" in Chinese history, in geo-economics and in connected history."
HubertBonin (https://twitter.com/hubertbonin/) is a researcher in modern economic history at Sciences Po Bordeaux and at the GREThA research centre at Bordeaux University. His fields are banking history, business history, economic history of WWI, business and banking in the French concessions in China, Bordeaux wine history and maritime logistics history.
Félicitations à notre collègue pour ce nouvel opus ! On retrouvera une présentation de l’ouvrage sur son site Internet : http://hubertbonin.fr/french-banking-in-china-1890s-1940s-business-in-the-french-concessions/ -
Vient de paraître Un cinéma ambulant en Afrique. Jean-Paul Sivadier, entrepreneur dans les années 1950 d’Odile
Goerg chez L’HarmattanLe 18 mai 2020 à 08h37
Vient de paraître Un cinéma ambulant en Afrique. Jean-Paul Sivadier, entrepreneur dans les années 1950 d’Odile
Goerg chez L’Harmattan, coll. "Images Plurielles : Scènes et écrans", 2020, 158 p. ISBN : 978-2-343-19780-7 Prix : 20,5 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
Préface de ClaudeForest .
"Le cinéma ambulant connaît une vif essor après 1945 en Afrique, où ce loisir est plébiscité en ville mais aussi à la campagne. Des entrepreneurs privés assurent des séances qui attirent jeunes et vieux, hommes et femmes, musulmans ou chrétiens. Cet ouvrage présente un document exceptionnel, le récit des tournées de Jean-Paul Sivadier, entre 1956 à 1959, au Sénégal, en Haute-Volta, au Soudan français et en Mauritanie, complété par ses photographies prises sur le vif. Ils permettent aussi d’entrevoir la réalité humaine et économique d’une petite entreprise de cinéma à la fin de la période coloniale."
OdileGoerg est professeure émérite en histoire de l’Afrique (Université de Paris, Paris-Diderot) et membre du CESSMA (Centre d’Étude en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains, Américains et Asiatiques). Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire sociale et culturelle en contexte urbain, en particulier sur les loisirs et le cinéma.
Signalé sur Twitter par Sophie Dulucq (https://twitter.com/Sophie_Dulucq/status/1255459943815229446?s=03) et par Vincent Hiribarren (https://twitter.com/bixhiribarren/status/1259432037179678720), qui a mené un entretien avec Odile Goerg - que nous félicitons pour cette nouvelle parution - sur le Blog Libération Africa4 : http://libeafrica4.blogs.liberation.fr/2020/05/10/un-cinema-ambulant-en-afrique/
Merci chaleureux à Odile Goerg, pour nous avoir fourni la table des matières de l’ouvrage. -
Vient de paraître A Silver River in a Silver World. Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678 de David Freeman aux Cambridge University Press
Le 15 mai 2020 à 17h46
Vient de paraître A Silver River in a Silver World. Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678 de David Freeman aux Cambridge University Press, coll. "Cambridge Latin American Studies", 2020, 238 p. ISBN : 9781108417495 Prix : 99,99 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"Drawing on a wide and rich array of sources, this book explores the nature and extent of Dutch trade and commerce in the Río de la Plata during three decades of the least-studied century (1650–1750) of Spain’s rule in the Americas. In doing so, it raises important questions about trade in colonial South America and how it was impacted by the Dutch, suggesting that these transactions were carried out within the confines of the law, contradicting common beliefs among scholars that this trading was not regulated. The book contributes to a growing literature on contraband trade, administration, networks, and corruption while challenging narratives of exclusively Spanish influence on the Americas."
David Freeman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. -
Vient de paraître The Yellow Demon of Fever. Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade de Manuel
Barcia aux Yale University PressLe 30 avril 2020 à 23h06
Vient de paraître The Yellow Demon of Fever. Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade de Manuel
Barcia aux Yale University Press, 2020, 296 p. ISBN : 9780300215854 Prix : 65 $.
"A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge
As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world."
ManuelBarcia (https://twitter.com/mbarcia24) is chair of global history at the University of Leeds and a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in History. -
Vient de paraître le dossier "Traites esclavagistes et mémoire culturelle" de la revue Ethnologie française aux PUF
Le 27 avril 2020 à 15h01
Vient de paraître le dossier "Traites esclavagistes et mémoire culturelle" de la revue Ethnologie française aux PUF, n° 1-2020 (t. 165), 240 p. ISBN : 978-2-13-082319-3 Prix : 24 €.
La revue et le dossier "Traites esclavagistes et mémoire culturelle" sont également disponibles, en version payante, sur Cairn.info.
"Depuis quelques décennies, le passé de l’esclavage est devenu une question sociétale importante et dont la charge politique est considérable. Issus de recherches concernant des contextes africains, américains et européens, les articles ici réunis interrogent les gestes, les récits et les visions propres à l’institution globalisée et plurielle d’une mémoire culturelle des traites négrières. Une telle mémoire est à l’œuvre dans la création de lieux, de monuments, de rituels ou de discours dont la quête de consensus ou de réparation n’est pas sans soulever, parfois, de vives polémiques et de fortes tensions. Ainsi, ce dossier vise à montrer les manières dont le souvenir du passé esclavagiste se manifeste également par le biais de postures morales, de revendications identitaires et d’émotions. Analyser les enjeux sous-jacents de reconnaissance, d’héritage, de dette qui gouvernent ces fabrications mémorielles est l’un des objectifs de cette livraison."
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Vient de paraître Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 sous la direction de Richard
Anderson et Henry B.Lovejoy aux University of Rochester PressLe 27 avril 2020 à 14h21
Vient de paraître Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 sous la direction de Richard
Anderson et Henry B.Lovejoy aux University of Rochester Press (Boydell & Brewer), coll. "Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora", 2020, 480 p. ISBN : 9781580469692 Prix : 95 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian, French, and US authorities seized ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons, and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a network of the world’s first international courts of humanitarian justice not only resulted in the "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand people but also generated an extensive archive of documents. Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 makes use of these records to illuminate the fates of former slaves, many of whom were released from bondage only to be conscripted into extended periods of indentured servitude.
Essays in this collection explore a range of topics related to those often referred to as "Liberated Africans"-a designation that, the authors show, should be met with skepticism. Contributors share an emphasis on the human consequences for Africans of the abolitionist legislation. The collection is deeply comparative, looking at conditions in British colonies such as Sierra Leone, the Gambia, and the Cape Colony as well as slave-plantation economies such as Brazil, Cuba, and Mauritius. A groundbreaking intervention in the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, this volume will be welcomed by scholars, students, and all who care about the global legacy of slavery."
RichardAnderson is a lecturer at the University of Exeter. Henry B.Lovejoy is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. -
Vient de paraître A History of West Central Africa to 1850 de John K.
Thornton aux Cambridge University PressLe 27 avril 2020 à 13h29
Vient de paraître A History of West Central Africa to 1850 de John K.
Thornton aux Cambridge University Press, coll. "New Approaches to African History", 2020, 386 p. ISBN : 9781107565937 Prix : 22,99 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 gives comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region. With equal focus given to both internal histories or inter-state interactions and external dynamics and relationships, this study represents an original approach to regional histories which goes beyond the existing scholarship on the area. By contextualising and expanding its range, to include treatment of the Portuguese colony of Angola, John K. Thornton provides new understandings of significant events, people, and inter-regional interactions which aid the grounding of the history of West Central Africa within a broader context. A valuable resource to students and scholars of African history."
John K.Thornton (https://twitter.com/Mvemba91) is Professor of History at Boston University where he is a specialist in the history of pre-colonial Africa and the African Diaspora. He is the author of numerous books, including Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (1992, 2nd edition 1998), The Kongolese Saint Anthony (1998), Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles and the Foundation of the Americas (2007) which was awarded the Herskovits Prize by the African Studies Association, and A Cultural History of the Atlantic World (2012) which was awarded the World History Association Book Prize. -
Vient de paraître Atlantic Transformations. Empire, Politics, and Slavery during the Nineteenth Century sous la direction de Dale W.
Tomich aux SUNY PressLe 16 avril 2020 à 15h37
Vient de paraître Atlantic Transformations. Empire, Politics, and Slavery during the Nineteenth Century sous la direction de Dale W.
Tomich aux SUNY Press (State University of New York Press), coll. "Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science", 2020, 254 p. ISBN : 978-1-4384-7785-5 Prix : 95 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"This book presents a new approach to nineteenth-century Atlantic history by extending the analytical perspective of the second slavery to questions of empire, colonialism, and slavery. With a focus on Latin America, Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States, international scholars examine relations among empires, between empires and colonies, and within colonies as parts of processes of global economic and political restructuring. By treating metropolis-colony relations within the framework of the modern world-economy, the contributors call attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world. They reinterpret as specific local responses to global processes the conflicts between empires, within imperial relations, the formation of national states, the creation of new zones of agricultural production and the decline of old ones, and the emergence of liberal ideologies and institutions."
Dale W.Tomich is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830–1848 and the editor of The Politics of the Second Slavery, both also published by SUNY Press. -
Vient de paraître Jamaica in the Age of Revolution de Trevor
Burnard aux University of Pennsylvania PressLe 16 avril 2020 à 15h07
Vient de paraître Jamaica in the Age of Revolution de Trevor
Burnard aux University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 400 p. ISBN : 9780812251920 Prix : 45 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"Between the start of the Seven Years’ War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slaveowners presided over a highly productive economic system, a precursor to the modern factory in its management of labor, its harvesting of resources, and its scale of capital investment and ouput. Planters, supported by a dynamic merchant class in Kingston, created a plantation system in which short-term profit maximization was the main aim. Their slave system worked because the planters who ran it were extremely powerful.
In Jamaica in the Age of Revolution, Trevor Burnard analyzes the men and women who gained so much from the labor of enslaved people in Jamaica to expose the ways in which power was wielded in a period when the powerful were unconstrained by custom, law, or, for the most part, public approbation or disapproval. Burnard finds that the unremitting war by the powerful against the poor and powerless, evident in the day-to-day struggles slaves had with masters, is a crucial context for grasping what enslaved people had to endure.
Examining such events as Tacky’s Rebellion of 1760 (the largest slave revolt in the Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution), the Somerset decision of 1772, and the murder case of the Zong in 1783 in an Atlantic context, Burnard reveals Jamiaca to be a brutally effective and exploitative society that was highly adaptable to new economic and political circumstances, even when placed under great stress, as during the American Revolution. Jamaica in the Age of Revolution demonstrates the importance of Jamaican planters and merchants to British imperial thinking at a time when slavery was unchallenged."
TrevorBurnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation and Director of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull. He is coauthor, with John Garrigus, of The Plantation Machine : Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.