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Vient de paraître La fabrique coloniale du citoyen. Algérie, Nouvelle-Calédonie sous la direction d’Éric
de Mari et d’ÉricSavarese chez KarthalaLe 21 août 2019 à 20h11
Vient de paraître La fabrique coloniale du citoyen. Algérie, Nouvelle-Calédonie sous la direction d’Éric
de Mari et d’ÉricSavarese chez Karthala, coll. "Hommes et sociétés", 2019, 194 p. ISBN : 9782811125820 Prix : 21 €.
"Si l’exclusion des indigènes de la participation politique dans le monde colonial est aujourd’hui largement connue et expliquée, nous en savons par contre bien moins sur l’accession des populations issues du peuplement des colonies au statut de citoyens, et dans quels contextes et conditions, ils ont su développer un sentiment d’appartenance à l’État-nation, fût-il colonial. C’est cet angle-mort de la connaissance sur l’époque coloniale que cet ouvrage prétend éclairer.
Comprendre, à partir des deux cas exemplaires de colonies de peuplement françaises que furent l’Algérie et la Nouvelle-Calédonie, comment les Français d’Algérie et les Caldoches sont devenus citoyens. Pour cela, cette étude revient sur les classifications juridiques produites au sein de l’État colonisateur (ethniques ou confessionnelles) et réfléchit à leurs sens pour identifier les populations. Cette démarche implique de repenser la sociologie historique de la citoyenneté en contexte colonial. En effet, tandis qu’en métropole l’apprentissage de la citoyenneté repose sur la promotion d’une participation politique individuelle, libre, éclairée et coupée des solidarités locales, sur le terrain algérien ou néocalédonien, les Français citoyens accèdent à la participation politique par le biais de leur appartenance à des groupes particularisés, et en concurrence avec d’autres dans des sociétés largement ethnicisées et/ou racialisées.
Dans ces conditions, si le projet des colonies de peuplement reste la dissolution de la question indigène, le passage à la modernité politique et à la citoyenneté électorale s’y réalise loin de l’universalisme et de l’individualisme républicain valorisés en métropole. L’apport de ce livre est de mettre en exergue ces évolutions paradoxales de la « fabrique coloniale du citoyen » par rapport à celle de la métropole."
Éricde Mari est professeur d’histoire du droit à l’Université de Montpellier, faculté de droit et de science politique, et directeur du laboratoire Dynamiques du droit (UMR 5815). Il est directeur du groupe d’Histoire du Droit des Colonies (HDC) et président de l’Association Française du Droit des Colonies (AFDC). ÉricSavarese est professeur de science politique à l’Université de Montpellier, chercheur au CEPEL (UMR 5112), responsable pédagogique du Master 1 de science politique, et président de la section de science politique à la faculté de droit et de science politique.
Ont également contibué à cet ouvrage : Chantal Bordes-Benayoun, Emmanuelle Comtat, Olivier Devaux, Martine Fabre, Pierre-Jean Le Foll-Luciani, Jean-Robert Henry, Éric Soriano, Benoît Trépied, Anne Ulrich-Girollet. -
Paru récemment Slavery Hinterland. Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850 sous la direction de Felix
Brahm et EveRosenhaft chez Boydell & BrewerLe 21 août 2019 à 19h54
Paru récemment Slavery Hinterland. Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850 sous la direction de Felix
Brahm et EveRosenhaft chez Boydell & Brewer, 2016, 276 p. ISBN : 9781783271122 Prix : 17,99 £ (existe également au format numérique).
"Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery : the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economies that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the historical study of the relationship between business and morality. Contributors from the US, Britain and continental Europe examine the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these ’hinterlands’ served as suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments in the ’hinterlands’. The chapters range in time from the first, short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects."
FelixBrahm is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London.
EveRosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool. -
Vient de paraître Héritages de l’esclavage : un guide pour les gestionnaires de sites et itinéraires de mémoire sous la direction de Nelly
Schmidt et MoniqueCouratier publié par l’UNESCOLe 21 août 2019 à 19h30
Vient de paraître Héritages de l’esclavage : un guide pour les gestionnaires de sites et itinéraires de mémoire sous la direction de Nelly
Schmidt et MoniqueCouratier publié par l’UNESCO (bibliothèque numérique UNESDOC), 2018, 215 p. ISBN : 978-92-3-200164-1
Ouvrage en Open Access, au format pdf, téléchargeable librement et gratuitement. Existe également en version anglaise et espagnole.
"Ce manuel est conçu pour les gestionnaires de sites et d’itinéraires de mémoire liés à la traite négrière et à l’esclavage. Il analyse de manière comparative les expériences dans la préservation et la promotion de ces sites à travers le monde et propose des orientations concrètes pour leur gestion et leur développement.
Il constitue le premier manuel sur ce sujet publié par une agence des Nations Unies et propose des lignes directrices sur la meilleure façon de préserver, de promouvoir et de gérer les sites et itinéraires d’histoire et de mémoire, en tenant compte du caractère sensible de cette mémoire douloureuse.
Conçu en deux parties, il contient des informations d’ordre conceptuel et pratique à l’intention des gestionnaires, et présente de nombreux exemples complets de sites, d’itinéraires et de musées mettant en œuvre des stratégies particulières de préservation, de promotion et d’interprétation des patrimoines liés à l’histoire de la traite négrière et de l’esclavage.
Il offre enfin des conseils et des recommandations pour le développement d’un tourisme de mémoire répondant à la demande croissante des citoyens pour approfondir la connaissance de cette Histoire et de cette mémoire.
Son principal objectif est de contribuer au renforcement des capacités des gestionnaires des sites et des itinéraires de mémoire et à la sensibilisation sur les questions éthiques suscitées par ces lieux chargés d’histoire." -
Paru récemment The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 de Daniel B.
Domingues da Silva aux Cambridge University PressLe 21 août 2019 à 18h49
Paru récemment The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 de Daniel B.
Domingues da Silva aux Cambridge University Press, coll. "Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora", 2017 (2019 pour la version paperback), 248 p. ISBN : 9781316628959 Prix : 22,99 £ (existe en version électronique).
"The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on archival sources from Angola, Brazil, England, and Portugal, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva explores not only the origins of the slaves forced into the trade but also the commodities for which they were exchanged and their methods of enslavement. Further, the book examines the evolution of the trade over time, its organization, the demographic profile of the population transported, the enslavers’ motivations to participate in this activity, and the Africans’ experience of enslavement and transportation across the Atlantic. Domingues da Silva also offers a detailed ’geography of enslavement’, including information on the homelands of the enslaved Africans and their destination in the Americas."
Daniel B.Domingues da Silva is Assistant Professor of African history at the University of Missouri, Columbia. -
Paru récemment Exploration. A Very Short Introduction de Stewart A.
Weaver aux Oxford University PressLe 21 août 2019 à 13h49
Paru récemment Exploration. A Very Short Introduction de Stewart A.
Weaver aux Oxford University Press, coll. "Very Short Introductions", 2015, 152 p. ISBN : 9780199946952 Prix : 7,99 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"For as long as there have been civilizations, there has been the urge to venture outside of them, either in search of other civilizations or in search of novelty. Exploration : A Very Short Introduction surveys this quintessential human impulse, tracing it from pre-history to the present, from east to west around the globe, and from the depths of volcanoes to the expanses of space.
Stewart Weaver arranges the history of world explorations into thematic chapters, each of which isolates the distinctive qualities and characteristics of exploration in a particular era, period, or place. He introduces the reader to the definition of exploration ; to the Polynesians crossing vast seas on their canoes and other early explorers ; through Columbus and the European discovery of the Americas. James Cook and the place of exploration in the Enlightenment form the subject of a chapter. So too do the natural histories and explorations of Alexander von Humboldt in South America and Lewis and Clark in North America. The book’s final chapters chart exploration through imperial expansion and into new frontiers, guiding the reader through exploration in Africa and Central Asia, the race to the North and South Poles, and today’s efforts in space and deep sea exploration.
But what accounts for this urge ? Through this unique survey of the history of exploration, Weaver clearly shows how the impulse to explore is also the foundation of the globalized world we inhabit today. Exploration combines a narration of explorers’ daring feats with a wide-lens examination of what it fundamentally means to explore. As Weaver shows us, the act of exploration in the largest possible global context is the natural history of the earth itself."
Stewart A.Weaver is a Professor of History, University of Rochester. He is the co-author (with Maurice Isserman) of Fallen Giants : A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, which won the National Outdoor Book Award for History and Biography and the Banff Mountain Festival Award for mountaineering history. -
Paru récemment Making Morocco Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity de Jonathan
Wyrtzen aux Cornell University PressLe 21 août 2019 à 13h37
Paru récemment Making Morocco Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity de Jonathan
Wyrtzen aux Cornell University Press, 2016 (2018 pour l’édition paperback), 352 p. ISBN : 9781501731228 Prix : 27,95 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"Jonathan Wyrtzen’s Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco’s historical coverage is remarkably thorough and sweeping ; the author exhibits incredible scope in his research and mastery of an immensely rich set of materials from poetry to diplomatic messages in a variety of languages across a century of history. The monograph engages with the most important theorists of nationalism, colonialism, and state formation, and uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a framework to orient and organize the socio-historical problems of the case and to make sense of the different types of problems various actors faced as they moved forward. His analysis makes constant reference to core categories of political sociology state, nation, political field, religious and political authority, identity and social boundaries, classification struggles, etc., and he does so in exceptionally clear and engaging prose. Rather than sidelining what might appear to be more tangential themes in the politics of identity formation in Morocco, Wyrtzen examines deeply not only French colonialism but also the Spanish zone, and he makes central to his analysis the Jewish question and the role of gender. These areas of analysis allow Wyrtzen to examine his outcome of interest—which is really a historical process of interest—from every conceivable analytical and empirical angle. The end-product is an absolutely exemplary study of colonialism, identity formation, and the classification struggles that accompany them. This is not a work of high-brow social theory, but a classic work of history, deeply influenced but not excessively burdened by social-theoretical baggage."
JonathanWyrtzen is Assistant Professor of Sociology and History at Yale University. -
Paru récemment An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War. Conscripted Generation d’Ângela
Campos chez Palgrave MacmillanLe 21 août 2019 à 13h20
Paru récemment An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War. Conscripted Generation d’Ângela
Campos chez Palgrave Macmillan, coll. "Palgrave Studies in Oral History", 2017, XVII-341 p. ISBN : 978-3-319-46193-9 Prix : 105,49 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
"This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West’s colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese Guinea), between 1961 and 1974. At the forefront of this work are the lived experiences of a wide range of Portuguese veterans, framed by broader insights about the post-war public memory of this event in Portugal. Moving away from stereotypical and polarized images of these ex-combatants, An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War : Conscripted Generation explores the memories and consequences of this war for these veterans and their society. Seeking to understand why Portuguese ex-combatants often feel neglected and historically unrecognised, this book presents a thorough portrait of a continually shifting – and at times paradoxical –individual and collective remembrance process."
ÂngelaCampos (https://twitter.com/AngelaFCampos) is a Research Fellow in Science Policy Research at the University of Sussex, UK. She serves on the executive council of the International Oral History Association and is a member of the Oral History Society. Her research focuses mainly on veterans’ lived experiences of war, having published internationally about this topic since 2006. -
Vient de paraître The Captive Sea. Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean de Daniel
Hershenzon aux University of Pennsylvania PressLe 21 août 2019 à 13h03
Vient de paraître The Captive Sea. Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean de Daniel
Hershenzon aux University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, 304 p. ISBN : 9780812250480 Prix : 45 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco—in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a political economy of ransom and communication networks shaped by Spanish, Ottoman, and Moroccan rulers ; ecclesiastic institutions ; Jewish, Muslim, and Christian intermediaries ; and the captives themselves, as well as their kin.
Hershenzon offers both a comprehensive analysis of competing projects for maritime dominance and a granular investigation of how individual lives were tragically upended by these agendas. He takes a close look at the tightly connected and ultimately failed attempts to ransom an Algerian Muslim girl sold into slavery in Livorno in 1608 ; the son of a Spanish marquis enslaved by pirates in Algiers and brought to Istanbul, where he converted to Islam ; three Spanish Trinitarian friars detained in Algiers on the brink of their departure for Spain in the company of Christians they had redeemed ; and a high-ranking Ottoman official from Alexandria, captured in 1613 by the Sicilian squadron of Spain.
Examining the circulation of bodies, currency, and information in the contested Mediterranean, Hershenzon concludes that the practice of ransoming captives, a procedure meant to separate Christians from Muslims, had the unintended consequence of tightly binding Iberia to the Maghrib."
DanielHershenzon teaches in the Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Department at the University of Connecticut. -
Paru récemment Media and the Portuguese Empire sous la direction de José Luís
Garcia , ChandrikaKaul , Filipa Mónica de BritoSubtil et Alexandra DiasSantos chez Palgrave MacmillanLe 21 août 2019 à 12h43
Paru récemment Media and the Portuguese Empire sous la direction de José Luís
Garcia , ChandrikaKaul , Filipa Mónica de BritoSubtil et Alexandra DiasSantos chez Palgrave Macmillan, coll. "Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media", 2017, XVI-355 p. ISBN : 978-3-319-61791-6 Prix : 126,59 € (existe aussi en version électronique).
"This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this book comprises studies in journalism, communication, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, focusing on such diverse subjects as the expansion of the printing press, the development of newspapers and radio, state propaganda in the metropolitan Portugal and the colonies, censorship, and the uses of media by opposition groups. It encourages an understanding of the articulations and tensions between the different groups that participated, willingly or not, in the establishment, maintenance and overthrow of the Portuguese Empire in Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, India, and East Timor."
José LuísGarcia is Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He recently edited Pierre Musso and the Network Society : From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet (2016).
ChandrikaKaul is Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews, UK. Her most recent publication is titled Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience : Britain and India in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2014).
FilipaSubtil is Assistant Professor at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal.
Alexandra DiasSantos is Assistant Professor at IADE, Universidade Europeia, Portugal. -
Vient de paraître Slave Traders by Invitation West Africa’s Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era de Finn
Fuglestad aux Oxford University PressLe 20 août 2019 à 20h17
Vient de paraître Slave Traders by Invitation West Africa’s Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era de Finn
Fuglestad aux Oxford University Press, 2018, 500 p. ISBN : 9780190876104 Prix : 74 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).
"The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, it was this coastline that witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relation-ship between Europeans and Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about ? How was it all organised ? And how did the locals react to the opportunities these new trading relations offered them ? The Kingdom of Dahomey is usually cited as the Slave Coast’s archetypical slave raiding and slave trading polity. An inland realm, it was a latecomer to the slave trade, and simply incorporated a pre-existing system by dint of military prowess, which ultimately was to prove radically counterproductive. Fuglestad’s book seeks to explain the Dahomean ’anomaly’ and its impact on the Slave Coast’s societies and polities."
FinnFuglestad is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of eleven books including A History of Niger, 1850-1960.