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Douze Jours à Nuku Hiva. Rencontres et Révolte Russe Dans le Pacifique Sud.
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ISBN: 9789464260205 9464260203 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press,

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La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l'aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Krusenstern, elle était, à elle seule, tout un monde composé de savants et naturalistes, d'officiers et marins moujiks, d'un ambassadeur de la cour du tsar et de quelques marins Japonais embarqués sur la Nadezhda et la Neva. Ces Russes de divers ethnies de l'empire et au-delà : Estoniens, Baltes, Allemands, Tartares ou Suisse, abordèrent en mai 1804 aux Marquises (Polynésie française). La rencontre de ces mondes offre un inestimable instantané de la société de Nuku Hiva à la veille d'un profond changement.Douze jours plus tard, elle quittait l'île ébranlée par un amer litige entre les capitaines et le représentant du tsar à bord, mais aussi chargée de nourriture, d'eau douce et de dizaines de témoignages, matériels et immatériels, d'un "Français marquisien", de croquis et tatouages. De retour au pays, ces hommes livrèrent toutes sortes de récits et souvenirs, autour d'eux, véhiculés en diverses langues mais au fil des aléas de l'Histoire, guerres et révolutions, ils se dispersèrent à travers l'Europe, l'Amérique, l'Asie, leurs archives et leurs musées.C'est aujourd'hui le temps de rapprocher Marquisiens et Occidentaux de pages uniques de leur histoire et héritage culturel. Dans cet ouvrage sont réunis, pour la première fois en français, ces pans de récits. Grâce à une collection d'illustrations plus vaste que l'édition anglaise originale de 2010, aux vocabulaires et annotations de Marie-Noëlle Ottino-Garanger, il est apporté un éclairage, aussi riche que possible, sur cette étonnante aventure humaine.The first Russian voyage around the world was launched at the turn of the nineteenth century in the wake of Bougainville's, Cook's and La Perouse's expeditions to the Pacific. Led by the Baltic German commander Adam von Krusenstern, the expedition comprised a diverse intellectual community of savants and naturalists from Switzerland, Germany, modern day Estonia, and Russia. In May 1804, the ships Nadezhda and Neva berthed at Nuku Hiva Island in the Marquesas (French Polynesia), recording an invaluable snapshot of traditional Nuku Hivan society on the eve of profound cultural change.Twelve days later, reeling from a bitter conflict between the captains and the onboard representative of the Russian Tsar, the ships left the island laden with food, sweet water, knowledge, artefacts, scores of sketches, "a French-marquesan" and many tattoos. On their return home, they told their stories in a variety of voices, languages, genres and media which have since been scattered by wars and revolution across the archives and museums of Europe, America and Asia. The time is here to reunite Marquesans with this unique page of their history and cultural heritage. This study, for the first time in the French language, brings together these disparate stories and images. With a collection of images far vaster than that of the original 2010 English edition, along with vocabularies, data drawn from the records of the expedition members, and extensive notes by Marie-Noëlle Ottino-Garanger proving broader context, this edition is encyclopaedic in its scope.


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Mutiny and leadership
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ISBN: 0192645404 0191914614 0192645390 0192893343 9780192893345 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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"Mutiny is often associated with the occasional mis-leadership of the masses by politically inspired hotheads or a spontaneous and unusually romantic gesture of defiance against a uniquely overbearing military superior. In reality it is seldom either, and usually it has far more mundane roots, not in the absolute poverty of the subordinates but in the relative poverty of the relationships between leaders and led in a military situation. Using contemporary leadership theory to cast a critical light on an array of mutinies across time and space, this book suggests we consider mutiny as a permanent possibility that is further encouraged or discouraged by particular contexts. What turns discontent into mutiny, however, lies in the leadership skills of a small number of leaders, and what transforms that into a constructive dialogue or a catastrophic disaster depends on how the leaders of both sides mobilize their supporters and their networks. From mutinies in ancient Roman and Greek armies through those that were generated by uncaring European monarchs and those that toppled the German and Russian states-and those that forced governments to face their own disastrous policies and changed them forever-this book covers an array of cases across land, sea, and air that still pose a threat to military establishments today"--


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The global challenge of peace : 1919 as a contested threshold to a new world order
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ISBN: 1800852797 1800857519 Year: 2021 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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This title scrutinises the events of 1919 from below: the global underside of the Wilsonian moment. During 1919 the Great Powers redrew the map of the world with the Treaties of Paris and established the League of Nations intending to prevent future war. Yet what is often missed is that 1919 was a complex threshold between war and peace contested on a global scale. This process began prior to war's end with mutinies, labour and consumer unrest, colonial revolt but reached a high point in 1919. Most obviously, the Russian Revolutions of 1917 continued into 1919 which signalled a decisive year for the Bolshevik regime. While the leaders of the Great Powers famously drew up new states in their Parisian hotel rooms, state formation also had a popular dynamic. The Irish Republic was declared. Afghanistan gained independence. Labour unrest was widespread.


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Mutiny on the Rising Sun : a tragic tale of slavery, smuggling, and chocolate
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ISBN: 1479813141 147981248X Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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"Mutiny on the Rising Sun recounts the origins, events, and eventual fate of the Rising Sun's final smuggling voyage in vivid detail. Starting from that horrible night in June 1743, it narrates a deeply human history of smuggling, providing an incredible story of those caught in the webs spun by illicit commerce. The case generated a rich documentary record that illuminates an international chocolate smuggling ring, the lives of the crew and mutineers, and the harrowing experience of the enslaved people trafficked by the Rising Sun. Smuggling stood at the center of the lives of everyone involved with the business of the schooner. Larger forces, such as imperial trade restrictions, created the conditions for smuggling, but individual actors, often driven by raw ambition and with little regard for the consequences of their actions, designed, refined, and perpetuated this illicit commerce. At once startling and captivating, Mutiny on the Rising Sun shows how illegal trade created demand for exotic products like chocolate, and how slavery and smuggling were integral to the development of American capitalism." -- "Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future United States was with the wider world, how illegal trade created markets for exotic products like chocolate, and how slavery and smuggling were key factors in the development of American capitalism"--


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An empire transformed : remolding bodies and landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic
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ISBN: 1479879649 1479895261 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvementWhen Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. His government sought to assert control and affirm the King’s sovereignty by touting his stewardship of both England’s land and the improvement of his subjects’ health. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, including fen and marshland drainage, forest rehabilitation, urban reconstruction, and garden transplantation schemes, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order. Merchants, colonial officials, and members of the Royal Society encouraged royal intervention in places deemed unhealthy, unproductive, or poorly managed. Their multiple schemes reflected an enduring belief in the complex relationships between the health of individual bodies, personal and communal character, and the landscapes they inhabited.In this deeply researched work, Kate Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. These wide-ranging actions offer insights about how restoration officials envisioned authority within a changing English empire.And Empire Transformed is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire.

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