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This paper utilizes the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of bulk animal bone collagen to better understand animal management practices in Archaic and Classical period Argilos in northern Greece. The results from Argilos are compared with data from other sites in northern Greece to provide new insights into herd management in the region over time. Our results reveal some changes in cattle and pig diets at Argilos between the Archaic and Classical periods. Throughout both periods cattle and caprines exhibit evidence of having consumed C4 vegetation, likely obtained from the nearby salt marshes in the Strymon river delta. This dietary regime is similar to that observed at other north Aegean sites dating back to the Neolithic, suggesting that the long tradition of animal herding in the marshes was an environmentally specific practice in the region.

The historiography on the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France (CNF) focuses primarily on its role in the colonization of New France. By examining its form, I resituate the CNF in the larger history of European experimentations with the joint-stock company. The liquidation of the company’s debts in the 1630s and 1640s forced associates, directors, and jurists to articulate their understanding of who was liable for the enterprise’s financial health. Evaluating the legal and moral arguments of the parties concerned, I argue that the complexity of the liability of associates and directors resulted from the intersection of corporate, monarchical and commercial worlds.

"Was the end of the First World War a catalyst for progress or the harbinger of future conflict? The essays in this collection address the impact of the end of the First World War, with a focus on the extent to which the end of the war and the Paris peace process encouraged or disrupted the nascent international order. The focus is on western Europe, particularly France. Among the topics addressed are the relationship between gender and peace activism, international and trans-Atlantic connections, and the significance of French domestic politics to international relations. Collectively, the essays extend the ongoing debate about the success of the Treaty of Versailles: they add nuance to the debate by showing how particular issues combined both success and failure. The volume should be of interest to military, diplomatic, and international historians, with particular chapters of interest to a wider range of scholars in European history.

In tandem with the colonization of Saguenay and the North Shore, the health of Indigenous populations deteriorated during the second half of the nineteenth century. Faced with the devastation caused by a proliferation of epidemics, the Department of Indian Affairs extended its vaccination program against smallpox to the Innu. Department officials considered this an affordable, humanitarian measure. At the same time, medical practitioners on the ground saw the initiative as a means of subsidizing healthcare for the broader population. Drawing on hygienic principles concerned with the prevention of disease, in the 1870s, many of these professionals argued the overcrowded dwellings on reserves, the irresponsible nature of the Indigenous Peoples, and their nomadic tendencies rendered them dangerous threats to public health. With the support of local elected officials and the Indian agent, the State was encouraged to open an ‘Indian Hospital’ in Pointe-Bleue (1876-1894). The institution was designed to help Indigenous Peoples, often perceived as negligent, manage their own health. Yet, the presence of Innu nurses, who provided care to members of their own community, reveals a more complicated set of relations at play and allows us to question to what extent the hospital was just another colonial tool to control Indigenous bodies.

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An article from Études d'histoire religieuse, on Érudit.

Cet ouvrage porte sur la mise en oeuvre par l'OMS, des politiques internationales de développement sanitaire en Afrique centrale entre 1956 et 2000. Il retrace l'histoire de cette organisation internationale en Afrique et surtout, celle de la création de son bureau africain à Brazzaville (AFRO). Ce livre montre aussi comment cette trajectoire institutionnelle croise l'histoire politique de la (dé)colonisation, l'histoire de la santé publique et celle de l'humanitaire. Située au croisement de ces trois historiographies, cette réflexion tente de faire la lumière sur le rôle essentiel joué par l'OMS dans la situation sanitaire des pays de la sousrégion méso africaine, en étudiant les politiques d'hygiène, de formation des personnels de santé et l'organisation des campagnes d'éradication des maladies. En renouvelant le regard sur les politiques sanitaires internationales mises en oeuvre dans le continent africain, depuis au moins la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, l'auteur met en valeur les ressorts d'une collaboration transnationale, non exempte de présupposés colonialistes. Cet ouvrage apparaît, dès lors, comme une référence indispensable pour réfléchir aux politiques internationales de développement sanitaire en Afrique dans leur contexte historique et politique. Simplice Ayangma Bonoho est enseignant d'histoire de l'Université de Yaoundé 1 (Cameroun) et chercheur postdoctoral Banting au Bishop's University (Canada). Il est, par ailleurs, lauréat 2022 du Prix Lombard Odier du Forum Suisse de Politique Internationale, pour l'excellence de son travail de thèse portant sur les enjeux du multilatéralisme et les nouvelles thématiques de la diplomatie multilatérale

This article uses memoirs, newspapers, and archival documents to analyse how four German women journalists became entangled in ideological conflict between Nazism, communism, and liberal democracy from the 1930s to the 1950s. Using the concept of a ‘long’ Cold War, it demonstrates how from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic of West Germany, the experiences and autobiographical writing of German women journalists who had been arrested and imprisoned by the Soviets contributed to Germany’s national identity as both a victim and a bulwark of (potential) Soviet aggression. Publishing their experiences provided these female journalists with a unique and historically specific political agency: their words echoed contemporary discourses about the supposed communist threat and how women and ideas about women were inherent in such rhetoric.

Le sénateur français et le président américain ont défendu deux conceptions antagonistes de la paix lors de la Conférence de Paris de 1919. Si la philosophie politique de Bourgeois est caractérisée par la grande cohérence de son projet solidariste, celle de Wilson, inspirée par le pragmatisme, est plus ambiguë. La confrontation entre les deux hommes illustre la tension qui existe, au sein des milieux internationalistes, quant à l’orientation à donner aux relations internationales après la guerre. Alors que Bourgeois défend à Paris une conception juridique, Wilson, de son côté, prétend que l’action internationale doit avant tout être guidée par la moralité et le poids de l’« opinion publique mondiale ».

We study the effects of domestic conflict and external shocks on Spanish trade policy in the interwar period. Our account mobilizes a new granular dataset on exports and imports, and good-country level information on tariffs, trade agreements, and quotas. Into the Depression, the mainstay of policy was the tariff. The establishment of the Second Republic in 1931 was a turning point in policymaking. The new regime initiated bilateral trade negotiations. The Republic’s dilemma was to find countries willing to exchange market access. In a daunting international environment, the Spanish case offers a poignant reminder of the perils of going against the grain.

Le président Wilson a fait de l’autodétermination une clé de voûte du nouvel ordre mondial, mais le concept est appliqué de façon arbitraire lors des négociations de paix de 1919. L’Europe centrale et orientale, dont Wilson avait une connaissance très limitée, constitue à cet égard un laboratoire. Cet article s’intéresse à la formulation de la politique américaine dans cet espace à travers les travaux de l’Inquiry, le groupe d’experts chargé de penser l’après-guerre, et examine les lettres des groupes et des individus qui ont tenté d’influencer la position du président américain sur cette question.

Following the end of the First World War, a new world order emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was an order riddled with contradictions and problems that were only finally resolved after the Second World War. Beyond the Great War brings together a group of both well-established and younger historians who share a rejection of the dominant view of the peace process that ended the First World War. The book expands beyond the traditional focus on diplomatic and high political history to question the assumption that the Paris Peace Treaties were the progenitors of a new world order. Extending the ongoing debate about the success of the Treaty of Versailles and surrounding events, this collection approaches the heritage of the Great War through a variety of lenses: gender, race, the high politics of diplomacy, the peace movement, provision for veterans, international science, socialism, and the way the war ended. Collectively, contributors argue that the treaties were at best a mitigated success, and that the "brave new world" of 1919 cannot be separated from the Great War that preceded it.