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Un empire bon marché : histoire et économie politique de la colonisation française, XIXe-XXIe siècle
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ISBN: 2021464385 9782021464382 Year: 2023 Publisher: [Paris] : Seuil,

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Au XIXe siècle, la France s'est lancée dans la colonisation de pays entiers en Afrique et en Asie. Quelles ont été les motivations et les méthodes de cette politique ? Comment les sociétés dominées ont-elles été bouleversées, et quel développement économique et social ont-elles connu ? La décolonisation est-elle achevée aujourd'hui ? Un empire bon marché propose de nouvelles réponses à ces questions controversées. Grâce à un long travail d'archives et d'analyse statistique, l'ouvrage décrit ainsi avec une grande précision les États coloniaux et leur fonctionnement - à travers notamment la fiscalité, le recrutement militaire, les flux de capitaux et les inégalités. Il montre que l'empire a peu coûté à la métropole jusqu'aux guerres d'indépendance, et que les capitaux français n'ont pas ruisselé vers les colonies. La « mission civilisatrice » que la République française s'était assignée n'a donc pas débouché sur le développement des pays occupés, et c'est plutôt un régime à la fois violent et ambigu qui s'y est établi. De fait, le régime colonial a surtout bénéficié à une petite minorité de colons et de capitalistes français. Quant aux élites nationalistes, elles ont le plus souvent reconduit un État autoritaire et inégalitaire après les indépendances. En s'attachant à l'évolution des sociétés colonisées et à leur devenir, Denis Cogneau fournit une contribution majeure et un nouvel éclairage sur l'impérialisme, d'hier à aujourd'hui.


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Near East to Far West : fictions of French and American colonialism
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ISBN: 0300266049 9780300266047 Year: 2023 Publisher: Denver : New Haven ; London : Denver Art Museum, Yale University Press

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From the 1830s to the 1920s, American artists such as Alfred Jacob Miller, George de Forest Brush, Joseph H. Sharp, Bert Geer Phillips, and Ernest Blumenschein traveled to France to study their craft. Returning from abroad, these artists looked to the American West in search of new subjects. Influenced by French Orientalists such as Eugène Delacroix, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, the American artists applied an Orientalist aesthetic and ideology to their paintings, sculptures, and drawings, while at the same time creating works that appeared uniquely American. Exploring the ways that the visual tropes and knowledge structures of Orientalism influenced French and American colonialism and expansion, this volume considers the impact of French artistic techniques and tropes on the development of western American art. Other themes include the symbolism of desert landscapes and exotic animals, the role of world?s fairs in disseminating Orientalist spectacles and stereotypes, and the importance of artistic pilgrimage to the deserts of North Africa and the American Southwest. Historical and contemporary perspectives of Indigenous peoples of North America, Muslim Americans, and Arab Americans challenge, negotiate, and provide alternative perspectives to the artworks.00Exhibition: Denver Art Museum, USA (05.03. - 28.05.2023).


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Messengers of empire : Print and revolution in the Atlantic World
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ISBN: 1802079904 Year: 2023 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World examines how news and information moved across the Atlantic world during the Age of Sail. It provides a ground-breaking look at how the French Revolutionary Wars impacted the development of communication channels, such as the creation of regular postal services in the Caribbean and increased reliance on local printers to produce print matter faster and more effectively. With the onset of war between the British Empire and French overseas empire, improved communications became a critical factor for military success, prompting developments on both sides. This included the surge in Caribbean printing operations, as well as the copper plating of packet boats to decrease the time it took for mail to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction. This book provides a unique inter-imperial comparison, revealing key differences and similarities between Britain and France in terms of how information circulation was crucial to the operation of empire. It consults a range of archival sources that have rarely, if ever, been used before, including correspondence dispatches, newspapers, almanacs, public notices, and even documents detailing secret society meetings. In doing so, this book reveals how imperial communication networks functioned at the ground level, as well as who were the gatekeepers of information in areas far removed from the metropoles.


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Messengers of empire : print and revolution in the Atlantic world
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ISBN: 9781802077681 1802077685 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford

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Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World examines how news and information moved across the Atlantic world during the Age of Sail. It provides a ground-breaking look at how the French Revolutionary Wars impacted the development of communication channels, such as the creation of regular postal services in the Caribbean and increased reliance on local printers to produce print matter faster and more effectively. With the onset of war between the British Empire and French overseas empire, improved communications became a critical factor for military success, prompting developments on both sides. This included the surge in Caribbean printing operations, as well as the copper plating of packet boats to decrease the time it took for mail to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction. This book provides a unique inter-imperial comparison, revealing key differences and similarities between Britain and France in terms of how information circulation was crucial to the operation of empire. It consults a range of archival sources that have rarely, if ever, been used before, including correspondence dispatches, newspapers, almanacs, public notices, and even documents detailing secret society meetings. In doing so, this book reveals how imperial communication networks functioned at the ground level, as well as who were the gatekeepers of information in areas far removed from the metropoles.

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