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Benton and Clulow's article echoes Isabelle Surun's analysis of early French imperialism in Western Africa:
▶️ Isabelle SURUN, Writing Sovereignty in Invisible Ink? Autochthonous Sovereignty and Territorial Appropriations in Nineteenth-Century Franco-African Treaties
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/S2398568200000741
#histodons #africa #frenchempire #informalempire #annalesinenglish
What can Pitcairn, a minuscule island in the middle of the Pacific, teach us about British imperialism? Quite a lot, when examined by Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow. Delving into the fluctuating relationship between the British Crown and that small territory, the authors explore the multiple makeshift arrangements and unexpected juridical twists that made up Britain's "informal empire."
▶️ Lauren BENTON & Adam CLULOW, How Not to Possess an Island: Pitcairn and the Legal Circuits of British Empire in the Pacific World
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.21
#annalesinenglish @histodons #histodons #britishempire #informalempire #pitcairn #pacificislands
How to understand interracial intimacies in a colonial context, when they mainly developed "under the administrative radar," thus leaving few traces? Following the trajectory of one such family in New Caledonia with ethnographic and archival work, Adrian Muckle and Benoît Trépied reflect on the possibilities and limits of such intimate relationships, whose invisibility reveals tells us much about the limitations of colonial control.
▶️ Adrian MUCKLE & Benoît TRÉPIED, Under the Colonial Radar? The History and Memory of an “Invisible” Mixed-Race Household in New Caledonia
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.20
#AnnalesinEnglish #annaleshss #histodons @histodons #newcaledonia #frenchempire #colonialism #interracial #intimacy #anthropology
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Two articles on Oceania:
▶️ Adrian MUCKLE & Benoît TRÉPIED, Under the Colonial Radar? The History and Memory of an “Invisible” Mixed-Race Household in New Caledonia
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.20
▶️ Lauren BENTON & Adam CLULOW, How Not to Possess an Island: Pitcairn and the Legal Circuits of British Empire in the Pacific World
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.21
More on each article below ⤵️
#annaleshss #oceania #pitcairn #newcaledonia #colonialism #imperialism #law #histodons @histodons
In the Central Peruvian Sierra, one ritual has been performed since the 16th century. The "Dance of the Conquest" mixes together masses, processions, banquets, dances through the community, at the intersection of religion and politics.
Combining ethnography and history, Isabel Yaya McKenzie offers, in this layered article, a fascinating reflection on #longuedurée, #memory, and lived temporalities.
➡️ Isabel YAYA McKENZIE, Dimensions of Time in a Ritual Drama: A Historical Anthropology of a “Conquest Dance” in the Central Peruvian Sierra from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.16
@histodons #histodons #AnnalesinEnglish #andes #peru #anthropo #anthropology #anthropodons #colonial #conquest #incas
Eighty letters, never opened, sent to the crew of a French ship captured by the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War.
Renaud MORIEUX @renaudmorieux (Cambridge University) opened them. And, beyond the emotional dimension of doing so across centuries, he shares with us a multifaceted analysis of a coastal, maritime community in eighteenth-century Europe.
➡️ Lost Letters. Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.15
#histodons #prizepapers #archives #archivodons @histodons #maritime #atlantichistory #AnnalesinEnglish
In an unconventional answer to a roundtable on her last book, **The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of Commercial Society**, Francesca Trivellato reads the echos of her subject in the recent installation of concept artist Christoph Büchel, "Monte di pietà," at the Venice Biennale.
➡️ Francesca TRIVELLATO, There’s More to Debt Than Meets the Eye
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.18
#histodons @histodons #debt #credit #antisemitism #art #veniceartbiennale2024 #AnnalesinEnglish
This week, three new articles in the English Edition of #AnnalesHSS :
➡️ Francesca Trivellato reads a recent art exhibit at the Venice Biennale through the lens of her last book;
➡️ Renaud Morieux unveils and unpacks unread letters from the families of eighteenth-century French sailors;
➡️ Isabel Yaya McKenzie revisits the temporalities and layered meanings of a "Dance of the Conquest" performed continuously in the Andes since the sixteenth century.
All can be found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/firstview
We will present each article in more detail this week, below ⤵️
In an ambitious historiographical essay encompassing six centuries, from the 15th to the 21st, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen (Sorbonne Université, https://centrehistoire19esiecle.pantheonsorbonne.fr/catherine-mayeur-jaouen) proposes to identify, through a regressive-historical method, the moments of rupture and the continuities in the construction of an historiographical understanding of Islam. It allows her to propose a new understanding of "Islamic reformism" and a decentered narrative of Islam and "modernity".
➡️ “In Pursuit of Reform”: Historiographical Renewals and Debates on the Religious and Intellectual History of Islam from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.7
@histodons #histodons #AnnalesHSS #AnnalesinEnglish #islam #historiography
The dossier on the history of early-modern and modern Islam, which #AnnalesHSS published in 2018, is now available in English. It was curated by Augustin JOMIER and Ismail WARSCHEID.
We will present the articles one by one over the next few days, but here is the table of contents:
➡️ For a History-Oriented Approach to Islamic Studies
the introduction to the dossier by A. Jomier and I. Warscheid
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.6
➡️ “In Pursuit of Reform”: Historiographical Renewals and Debates on the Religious and Intellectual History of Islam from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century
by Catherine MAYEUR-JAOUEN
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.7
➡️ The *Book of the Desert*: The Worldview of an Early Nineteenth-Century Muslim Scholar in the Saharan West
by Ismail WARSCHEID
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.8
➡️ Islam, Purity, and Modernity: “Blameworthy Innovations” in the Maghreb, 1920–1950
by Augustin JOMIER
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.9
➡️ Secularity, Sociology, and the Contemporary History of Islam
By James McDOUGALL
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.10
#AnnalesinEnglish #histodons @histodons #islam #maghreb #sahara #religioushistory #intellectualhistory #secularism #islamicstudies
Peter Ericsson and Patrik Winton's article in the last issue of #AnnalesHSS (https://social.sciences.re/@AnnalesHSS/113521760842829684) is already available in English as well.
➡️ Inequality Challenged and Restored. The Political Economy of War Finance in Sweden, c. 1715–1721
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.12
The authors unveil how the monetary and fiscal reforms, enacted by an ambitious monarch to finance his many wars in the early 18th century, had an impact deep into Swedish society, even shaking its social hierarchies, until reaction brutally set them back.
A refreshing new look at the fiscal-military state of the early modern era.
#AnnalesinEnglish #histodons @histodons #state #fiscalmilitarystate #econhist #histecon #sweden #swedishhistory @uu_university #Uppsala #UppsalaUniversity
In a fascinating article, Andrea Addobbati and Francesca Bregoli use a recently discovered play in French from 1786 to mine into the rapidly shifting place Livornese #Jews had in the Tuscan public sphere, in the context of ransoming captives across the Mediterranean.
👉 The Livornese #Slaves in Algiers: The #Jewish Question and Political #Theatre in Late Eighteenth-Century #Tuscany
➡️ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/article/abs/livornese-slaves-in-algiers/E8B9149DA13E8C1F47ACA8B9F5A56A6B
Public life in #AncientGreece was dominated by a binary between political life and private life. Integrating philosophical texts with #epigraphic evidence, Benjamin Gray argues, however, that by the 2nd c. BCE the Greeks started developing a concept of "social life" that contradicts usual views of "depolitization" in that period.
👉 The Invention of the Social? Debating the Scope of Politics in the Greek Polis
How were #maps produced in the 16th century? Zoltán Biedermann compares maps of the #Caspian Sea produced in #Goa and #Venice to propose "a '(dis)connected history' of knowledge production and consumption" where, beyond segmented flows of information, the Caspian proved to have very different meanings in different #mapmaking contexts.
👉 In a Garden of Forking Maps: Mapping the Caspian in Sixteenth-Century Goa and Venice
➡️ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/article/in-a-garden-of-forking-maps/0074DB690B7D689F83FE0BCB155F5292
To stay with the English edition, we had a small bundle of articles published recently: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/firstview
They talk about Jewish political participation in Livorno, mapmaking in Goa and Venice, the commons in Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, and the Greek invention of the social out of the political sphere.
More on each article in the coming days.
How did a Portuguese #Jesuit become a #Tamil saint, whose worship is still strong today?
In a stunning fine-grained, #multilingual #ethnohistory, Margherita Trento (EHESS) weaves together all the threads of the #martyrdom and #canonization of a Jesuit in the early-modern #imperial encounter in the south of the #Indian subcontinent.
👉 "Martyrdom, Witnessing, and Social Lineages in the Tamil Country (17th-18th c.)": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/article/abs/martyrdom-witnessing-and-social-lineages-in-the-tamil-country/8C80008A9F920E96A26AFD64CCB77A83
Our latest published issue is a special issue on social histories of #religion across the world. Although it is in French, two articles are already available in English:
👉 Margherita Trento, "Martyrdom, Witnessing, and Social Lineages in the Tamil Country (17th-18th c.)": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/article/abs/martyrdom-witnessing-and-social-lineages-in-the-tamil-country/8C80008A9F920E96A26AFD64CCB77A83
👉 Jean-Pierre Dedieu and Gunnar W. Knutsen, "The Trial of Faith in the Spanish Inquisition: Between Law and Repentance": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/article/abs/trial-of-faith-in-the-spanish-inquisition/D17B7B3C9B07D66A1566EA5EF69FEA9C