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La France et ses esclaves

Author : Frédéric Regent
Publisher : Grasset
ISBN 13 : 2246702194
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book La France et ses esclaves written by Frédéric Regent and published by Grasset. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sous la domination coloniale française, quatre millions d’esclaves ont vécu ou survécu dans les territoires suivants : Gorée, Grenade, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Ile Bourbon (Réunion), Ile de France (Ile Maurice), Louisiane, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Nouvelle-France, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Christophe, Sainte-Croix, Saint-Domingue, Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Sainte-Lucie, Saint-Martin, les Seychelles, Tobago. Il existe des histoires de la colonisation française, des histoires de chaque colonie ou ensemble régional colonial, des histoires très générales de l’esclavage, mais il n’existe aucune histoire croisée de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises sur toute la période coloniale. Ce livre est donc une première. Il s’adresse à un public large, désirant apprendre ce qui s’est passé durant les deux siècles de la période esclavagiste de la France, dans un souci de vérité et de clarté. La France et ses esclaves raconte cette histoire, loin du manichéisme habituel, elle décrit les relations complexes, entre Blancs, Noirs, Amérindiens, les métissages et les transformations. Ce livre, qui couvre une période allant des débuts de la colonisation à la seconde abolition de 1848, utilise des documents jusque là méconnus. Il permet de comprendre à tout lecteur ce que fut l’esclavage sous la domination française – un pan mal connu et peu enseigné de notre histoire .

The Exile's Song

Author : Sally McKee
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224699
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Exile's Song written by Sally McKee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond D d , raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond D d , a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France s best classical musicians and went on to spend thirty-six years in Bordeaux leading the city s most popular orchestras. How did this African American, raised in the biggest slave market in the United States, come to compose ballets for one of the best theaters outside of Paris and gain recognition as one of Bordeaux s most popular orchestra leaders? Beginning with his birth in antebellum New Orleans in 1827 and ending with his death in Paris in 1901, Sally McKee vividly recounts the life of this extraordinary man. From the Crescent City to the City of Light and on to the raucous music halls of Bordeaux, this intimate narrative history brings to life the lost world of exiles and travelers in a rapidly modernizing world that threatened to leave the most vulnerable behind.

A History of Modern France

Author : Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135136667X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern France written by Jeremy D. Popkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern France offers a framework to understand modern French history through a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated its history from the eighteenth century to the present day. Covering events such as the French Revolution, the two World Wars and the more recent election of Emmanuel Macron and the "yellow vest" movement, the book takes a balanced approach to the competing interpretations of modern France inspired by its history. This edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the most recent scholarship on topics including French imperial history and the empire’s postcolonial legacy, the history of women and gender, and the French experience of World War I. A new section extends the narrative into mid-2019, and additional emphasis has been given to the role of historical memory in the making of French identity. Taking a chronological approach, the book is approachable for students and provides a clear and understandable picture of the history of modern France. Supported by further reading that has been updated to include the most recent publications, the book is the ideal introduction to the history of modern France for students of this fascinating country.

The Imperial Nation

Author : Josep M. Fradera
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217343
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Nation written by Josep M. Fradera and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers—Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States—and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects. Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years’ War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon’s “special laws,” which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted “specialness” in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies. In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.

A Past of Possibilities

Author : Quentin Deluermoz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030026285X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Past of Possibilities written by Quentin Deluermoz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future and the past, or uchronias, A Past of Possibilities encourages deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history. Wide-ranging in scope, it examines the Boxer Rebellion in China, the 1848 revolution in France, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and integrates science fiction, history, historiography, sociology, anthropology, and film. In probing the genre of literature and history that is fascinated with hypotheticals surrounding key points in history, Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou reach beyond a mere reimagining of history, exploring the limits and potentials of the futures past. From the most bizarre fiction to serious scientific hypothesis, they provide a survey of the uses of counterfactual histories, methodological issues on the possible in Social Sciences, and practical proposals for using alternate histories in research and the wider public.

Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851

Author : David Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036933
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851 written by David Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full examination of the 'protectionist turn' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.

Slave No More

Author : Aline Helg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469649640
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Slave No More written by Aline Helg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized. While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.

Archipelago of Justice

Author : Laurie M. Wood
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300244002
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Archipelago of Justice written by Laurie M. Wood and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of France's Atlantic and Indian Ocean empires through the stories of the little-known people who built it This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial subjects sought political and legal influence via law courts, with strategies that reflected local and regional priorities, particularly regarding slavery, war, and trade. Through court records and legal documents, Wood reveals how courts became liaisons between France and new colonial possessions.

The Anatomy of Blackness

Author : Andrew S. Curran
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402300
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Blackness written by Andrew S. Curran and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and literary texts, Curran shows how naturalists and philosophes drew from travel literature to discuss the perceived problem of human blackness within the nascent human sciences, describes how a number of now-forgotten anatomists revolutionized the era’s understanding of black Africans, and charts the shift of the slavery debate from the moral, mercantile, and theological realms toward that of the “black body” itself. In tracing this evolution, he shows how blackness changed from a mere descriptor in earlier periods into a thing to be measured, dissected, handled, and often brutalized. Penetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves.

History Below the Global

Author : Lorenzo Kamel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040011306
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book History Below the Global written by Lorenzo Kamel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Below the Global aims to foster an entangled knowledge of global history, and to place "others" at the centre stage, to better understand the fluid world which we inhabit. Relying on primary sources in seven languages and books written by hundreds of African, Asian, Middle Eastern and South American scholars, Lorenzo Kamel examines the coloniality of power in historical research and sheds light on the largely neglected roles of the "others" and their modernities in history. The book provides three elements combined. Firstly, a thorough analysis of the process of accumulation (“knowledge piece by piece”) which underpins some of the major achievements in human history. Secondly, a view on pre-colonial perspectives and the process through which the latter have been swallowed up by Eurocentric and solipsistic perceptions. Lastly, a study of the roots and outcomes of colonialisms and their echoes in our present. These three elements are addressed by combining multiple methodologies and approaches, in the awareness that the history analysed, as well as the historiographical trajectories that underlie it, are ultimately inter-penetrable, as well as themselves the result of a process of accumulation. History Below the Global challenges the view that, first and foremost, the “West”, for bad and for good, is and was the centre: the proactive actor which did and undid. This volume will be of value to all those interested in global history, the history of colonialism, post-colonial studies, modern and contemporary history.

The Mulatto Solitude

Author : Degruel, Yann
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231000586
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Mulatto Solitude written by Degruel, Yann and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean

Author : Wiebke Beushausen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351838776
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean written by Wiebke Beushausen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean has played a crucial geopolitical role in the Western pursuit of economic dominance, yet Eurocentric research usually treats the Caribbean as a peripheral region, consequently labelling the inhabitants as beings without agency. Examining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives, this volume explores the region’s history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbean’s central role for the accumulation of wealth of European and North American actors and the respective dialectics of modernity/coloniality, through a variety of experiences inducing migration, transnational exchange and transculturation. Contributors approach the Caribbean as an empowered space of opposition and agency and focus on perspectives of the region as a place of entanglements with a long history of political and cultural practices of resistance to colonization, inequality, heteronomy, purity, invisibilization, and exploitation. An important contribution to the literature on agency and resistance in the Caribbean, this volume offers a new perspective on the region as a geopolitically, economically and culturally crucial space, and it will interest researchers in the fields of Caribbean politics, literature and heritage, colonialism, entangled histories, global studies perspectives, ethnicity, gender, and migration.

Robespierre

Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183674
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Robespierre written by Peter McPhee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.

Liberty or Death

Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300219504
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Liberty or Death written by Peter McPhee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world’s first great modern revolution—its origins, drama, complexity, and significance. Was the Revolution a major turning point in French—even world—history, or was it instead a protracted period of violent upheaval and warfare that wrecked millions of lives? McPhee evaluates the Revolution within a genuinely global context: Europe, the Atlantic region, and even farther. He acknowledges the key revolutionary events that unfolded in Paris, yet also uncovers the varying experiences of French citizens outside the gates of the city: the provincial men and women whose daily lives were altered—or not—by developments in the capital. Enhanced with evocative stories of those who struggled to cope in unpredictable times, McPhee’s deeply researched book investigates the changing personal, social, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. His startling conclusions redefine and illuminate both the experience and the legacy of France’s transformative age of revolution. “McPhee…skillfully and with consummate clarity recounts one of the most complex events in modern history…. [This] extraordinary work is destined to be the standard account of the French Revolution for years to come.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Captives and Corsairs

Author : Gillian Weiss
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080477000X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Captives and Corsairs written by Gillian Weiss and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.

The Sun King's Atlantic

Author : Jutta Wimmler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004336087
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Sun King's Atlantic written by Jutta Wimmler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sun King’s Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which the Atlantic world channeled cultural developments during the age of the Sun King. Although hardly visible for contemporaries at the time, Africa and America were omnipresent throughout early modern France: in the textile industry, pharmaceutics, medicine, scientific methods, religious discourse, and court theatre. The book moves beyond typical plantation crops and the slave trade to illustrate how a focus on Europe challenges us to rethink the place of Africa in the early modern world.

A Companion to the French Revolution

Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118977521
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the French Revolution written by Peter McPhee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history. Examines the origins, development and impact of the French Revolution Features original contributions from leading historians, including six essays translated from French. Presents a wide-ranging overview of current historical debates on the revolution and future directions in scholarship Gives equally thorough treatment to both causes and outcomes of the French Revolution