A powerful and impassioned historical account of the la…
American Babylon
A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland
America, América: a new history of the New World
"The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates, the nation's unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south-no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World Grandin reveals how North and South emerged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other. America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest-the greatest mortality event in human history-through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond. Grandin shows, among other things, how royalist Spanish America, by sending troops and supplies, helped save the republican American Revolution; how in response to U.S. interventions, Latin Americans remade the rules, leading directly to the founding of the United Nations; and how the Good Neighbor Policy allowed FDR to assume the moral authority to lead the fight against world fascism. Grandin's book sheds new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who almost lost his head in the French Revolution and conspired with Alexander Hamilton to free America from Spain; the Colombian Jorge Gaitán, whose unsolved murder inaugurated the rise of Cold War political terror, death squads, and disappearances; and the radical journalist Ernest Gruening, who in championing non-interventionism in Latin America, helped broker the most spectacularly successful policy reversal in United State history. This is a monumental work of scholarship that will fundamentally change the way we think of slavery and racism, the rise of universal humanism, and the role of social democracy in staving off extremism. At once comprehensive and accessible, America, América shows that centuries of bloodshed and diplomacy not only helped shape the political identities of the United States and Latin America but also the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world. A culmination of a decades-long engagement with hemispheric history, drawing on a vast array of sources, and told with authority and flair, this is a genuinely new history of the New World"-- Provided by publisher
Histoires Crépues. Une clarification politique
Analyse de l'idéologie et de la praxis d'un certain antiracisme
Canicule : la révolution ou la mort
Frustration Magazine, média indépendant et offensif qui relate la guerre des classes.
Marxism & the Global South
A critical history of imperialism and dependency theory, from Marx on colonialism and Eurocentrism to Baran, Frank, Wallerstein, and Samir Amin.
Marxism & the Global South
A critical history of imperialism and dependency theory, from Marx on colonialism and Eurocentrism to Baran, Frank, Wallerstein, and Samir Amin.
Élisée Reclus
Jacques Élisée Reclus, né le 15 mars 1830 à Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (Gironde) et mort à Thourout en Belgique le 4 juillet 1905, est un géographe et militant anarchiste français.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and th…
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a moti…
« Terroir washing » : les effets sociopolitiques de l’instrumentalisation accrue des territoires français par les marques
Dans une étude pour l’Institut Terram et la Fondation Jean Jaurès, publiée vendredi 11 octobre, l’essayiste Raphaël Llorca s’intéresse au rôle prépondérant des marques commerciales dans la construction d’un « imaginaire territorial ». Selon lui, les années 2020 représentent un tournant.
The Imperial History Behind the Raid on Venezuela
Peter Beinart interviews scholar Greg Grandin on the history of US intervention in Latin America and what Trump’s new “doctrine” may portend.
Remote Origins: Translation, Genealogy, and Alterity in Medieval Castile (1252-circa 1390)
This dissertation analyzes selected examples of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century written culture to show their engagement with the religious alterity of Islam as an integral part of the origins of the kingdom of Castile. Following an interdisciplinary methodology, it addresses how medieval ideas about astrology, geography, history, medicine, race, and religion participated in creating discourses about origins that recognized the intellectual and political authority of al-Andalus. It argues that early Castilian vernacular texts conceptualized the translation of Arabic sources as an instrument for creating, transforming, and superseding the alterity of Islam while recognizing the cultural and political authority of Andalusi traditions. The first chapter serves as an introduction explaining the historical and theoretical framework of the dissertation. To do so, it provides an overview of Castilian ideas about genealogy, historiography, authority, and translatio, and translation. Then, through close reading and ample historicization, chapters two, three, and four analyze the impact of Andalusi textual traditions, cultural practices, and human population in three interrelated fields of medieval science, literature, and history. Chapter 2 explores the political implications of King Alfonso X’s (r. 1252-1284) dedication to the translation of Arabic sciences by focusing on the translation of a treatise of astrology titled Libro de las cruzes (1259). The chapter traces the cultural and political context that accompanied the transmission of the book in al-Andalus alongside the content of its Arabic and Castilian prologues. In light of ideas about the transference of knowledge (translatio studii) shared by Christian and Muslim scholars, I conclude that deployment of a twofold origin in the Libro de las cruzes illustrates the strategies and motivations of Alfonso X’s broader engagement with Arabic sources. The third chapter turns to the early fourteenth-century romance Libro del caballero Zifar with a double focus on its forged origin as a translation from caldeo (Chaldean) and the prominence of cursed lineages. Regarding lineage, the chapter explores the representation of exemplary virtues by the protagonists of the romance as enacting ideas about the transformable character of lineage and the capabilities of the individual to unmake inherited negative traits. Likewise, the textual strategy of the forged translation enables the inclusion of Arabic and Asian referents at the origin of a profoundly Christian text. In chapter 4, literature meets historiography in the analysis of the Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor. Being the result of intertwining a Castilian chronicle—Alfonso X’s Estoria de Espanna—and a French romance, this text narrates the love story between an Andalusi Muslim prince and the daughter of a captive Christian noble. The chapter focuses on Berta, the captive woman, to show the implications of her decision to nurture Flores and Blancaflor with her milk. Considering Christian and Muslim ideas about milk and wet nursing along with the tenets of Castilian historiography, the chapter shows the limits of dominant ideas about dynastic origins among the Christian elites of Castile while evidencing the existence of an alternative discourse that—coming from within Castilian historiography—incorporates maternal and non-Christian kinship as an essential part of the origins and possibilities of the kingdom. A short final chapter serves as a conclusion, suggesting paths for expanding the results of this dissertation within and the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries covered by its contents.
L'arcade, les juifs et les gangsters - La faute à la manette !
Voilà longtemps que je voulais évoquer Le Jazz et les gangsters 1880-1940, de Ronald L. Morris (1980). Cette étude sociologique mettait en avant les liens et les affinités entre les jazzmen noirs et les gangsters, siciliens ou juifs, qui « ont apporté leur soutien commercial, leur amitié et leurs encouragements à des centaines et des centaines d’artistes de jazz en les aidant à atteindre une popularité qui leur eût autrement échappé » (p.13).
Incendies en Espagne : le Premier ministre Pedro Sánchez appelle à un « pacte d’État » sur l’urgence climatique
Un « grand pacte d’État » sur l’urgence climatique : c’est ce qu’a proposé le Premier ministre espagnol de gauche, Pedro Sánchez, à l’ensemble des acteurs politiques, et notamment au principal parti de l’opposition, le Parti populaire (PP) du libéral—conservateur Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Cette initiative vise à renforcer les moyens et à améliorer la coordination entre régions face aux catastrophes environnementales.
Les Néo-fascismes européens et les mondes arabo-musulmans
Stéphane François et Nicolas Lebourg, « Le courant nationaliste-révolutionnaire et les mondes arabo-musulmans, de Maurice Bardèche à Christian Bouchet », Bernard Bruneteau et Yves Santamaria dir., …
L’antisémitisme et la réforme de la Bourse de Paris (1893-1898)
Les réformes de la Bourse de Paris entre 1893 et 1898 sont l’occasion de manifestations d’antisémitisme qui peuvent ne guère surprendre dans le contexte de l’époque. Les partisans du monopole des agents de change traitent de juifs les membres du marché libre (les coulissiers) qui le remettent en cause. Au-delà de la défense conservatrice d’une corporation privilégiée et de sa contestation libérale, cet épisode permet de mieux comprendre que ce sont deux conceptions du marché financier toujours actuelles qui sont en cause. Les coulissiers privilégient la liquidité, la rapidité d’exécution, les financiers professionnels et les échanges internationaux, au prix éventuellement d’une moindre sécurité et d’une moindre égalité dans l’échange, au détriment sans doute des petits boursicoteurs et de la stabilité du marché. Les agents de change avaient des priorités inverses. Le débat s’enrichit de l’émergence d’une tierce position socialiste qui renvoie dos à dos libéraux et conservateurs pour proposer une Bourse service public privilégiant transparence et sécurité sans que ce soit au profit d’un groupe privilégié, position qui, sans prévaloir, annonce de nouvelles conceptions de l’économie de marché., The reforms of the Paris Stock Exchange between 1893 and 1898 gave rise to manifestations of antisemitism that were very much of their time. Supporters of the stockbrokers’ monopoly branded their opponents who participated in the free market (known as coulissiers) as Jews. Beyond the conservative defense of a privileged guild and its liberal contestation, this episode illuminates two conceptions of the financial market that are still current today. The coulissiers favored liquidity and speed of execution, professional financiers, and international exchanges, potentially at the cost of trading security and equality, and to the detriment of small traders and market stability. The official brokers (agents de change) had opposite priorities. The debate was complexified by the emergence of a third, socialist position that rejected both liberal and conservative visions, proposing a public-service stock exchange that would favor transparency and security without benefiting a privileged group. Although this position did not win out, it nevertheless heralded new conceptions of the market economy.
annotations: L'impact économique du colonialisme
traduction de "The economic impact of colonialism" de Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson