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Un article de la revue Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Cet article revisite le phénomène des prises de possession, un des mécanismes mentalitaires autorisant l’extension de la souveraineté française aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, en le plaçant sous l’éclairage croisé de la religion, du genre et des Imperium Studies. Il s’agit d’examiner cette emprise symbolique sur des terres destinées à constituer le royaume de France, d’abord en observant comment s’opère la dilatatio regnum regi en France et en Europe, puis en comparant ces modalités à celles de l’expansion française en Amérique. Cela dans le but d’émettre des hypothèses qui incitent à repenser le déploiement de l’autorité royale française sur les peuples de l’Ancien comme du Nouveau Monde.

Le feuilleton de la faillite de l'État grec nous tient en haleine depuis plusieurs mois. Le défaut de paiement des États, à vrai dire, n'est pas chose nouvelle. Samir Saul nous explique pourquoi ils se sont même multipliés depuis le XIXe siècle. Pourquoi aussi aujourd'hui ils sont plus dangereux que jamais.

All the Jesuits who arrived in New France would declare themselves "ready to die for the honour of [...], our good Lord and for the salvation of these poor people." [...] according to the doctrine of Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of their order, they could only contribute to this salvation by becoming missionaries. [...] they would teach Christian values to these newly discovered beings, whose existence had been sheltered from this revelation since the beginning of time. [...] from the arrival of Biard and Massé in Acadia in 1611 to the death of Jean-Joseph Casot, the last Jesuit of the French regime, in 1800, and after their return to Canada in the nineteenth century, the missionaries of the Society of Jesus have specialized in science and teaching, thus influencing countless generations of students.

Abstract What can a volume from George Washington’s library say about his opinion of slavery or about abolitionism more generally in the late eighteenth century? A great deal, it turns out. Understood both as an intellectual and material artifact and approached from the entangled perspectives of the history of the book and transatlantic abolition, one single bound pamphlet volume brings a new Washington into focus. It locates him in the context of an international debate about slavery connecting British pamphleteers, Parisian salons, and transatlantic friendships; follows European travelers as they disseminated books and pamphlets and carried on conversations on both sides of the Atlantic; and leads eventually to the broader contexts of imperial rivalry and international abolitionism. Set in this context, Washington emerges as a thinker well within the broad mainstream of European opinion about abolition. But even more this new view of Washington helps elucidate the international networks of abolitionist writing and activism that shaped the movement during the age of Atlantic revolutions. Web supplement: http://oieahc.wm.edu/wmq/Apr11/furstenberg.html

Decolonization's impact was by no means restricted to the Global South. It is impossible to understand developments in the Canada-Quebec-France triangle in the 1960s without referring to the discourse, ideas, and examples of anti-colonial resistance that marked international life after the Second World War. In addition to influencing the postwar development of France and Quebec, the decolonization phenomenon figured prominently in the process of rapprochement that developed between them in the post-1945 period. After discussing the global reach of decolonization, this article examines its impact on the Canada-Quebec-France triangle. Particular attention is paid to its intellectual and political consequences, notably the 'Quebec as colony' metaphor and the reimagining of France as a champion of decolonization. The intersection between these two ideas was crucial to the evolution of the France-Quebec relationship.

This chapter argues that human rights discourse remains marginal to the politics of religion in China, despite the efforts of the United States and international organizations to bring it in. There has been a liberalization of religious practice in China since the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and the country's economic opening since 1979. By all accounts, the number of religious adherents in the country is surging, particularly within different forms of Protestant Christianity. While tolerating this development, the government has sought to carefully manage it. China recognizes freedom of belief as a human right, as well as religious practice—as long as the latter unfolds within a government-approved framework. Religious communities must be organized on a national basis, reflecting ongoing suspicion of external religious actors, a legacy of the involvement of missionaries in the colonial enterprise. And they must register with the Religious Affairs Bureau, which oversees the construction of new religious buildings, the printing of religious literature, and systems of seminaries and monasteries. Within this structure, local struggles for greater religious freedom have not focused on international human rights.

La Loi relative à l’extension juridique des conventions collectives de travail est adoptée par le gouvernement du Québec en 1934 pour protéger les travailleurs frappés par la crise économique et favoriser leur syndicalisation. Fruit de revendications des syndicats catholiques, elle porte un modèle particulier de relations de travail qui ne s’imposera pas ailleurs en Amérique du Nord. La loi, qui mise sur la collaboration patronale-syndicale, permet au gouvernement d’étendre par décret à toutes les entreprises d’un secteur industriel, dans un territoire déterminé, les termes d’’une convention collective conclue par un syndicat. Sa philosophie est issue de la doctrine sociale de l’Église catholique avec comme but ultime la formation de corporation professionnelle, cellule de base de la société corporatiste.

The scientific discovery and mastery of electricity created as many important changes in modern society as did the invention of alphabetical writing in antiquity and movable type in the fifteenth century. It is more than a natural phenomenon that science has harnessed for human use; it is a central feature of the modern episteme. It has inspired writers and artists, propelled industry and innovation, and reshaped human social behaviour. Looking at a variety of topics including film, politics, and contemporary art, this volume explores the impact of electricity on knowledge, social practices, media, community life, and subjective experience.,La découverte scientifique et la maîtrise de l'électricité ont bouleversé notre société au même titre que l'invention de l'écriture alphabétique durant l'Antiquité et de l'imprimerie à caractères mobiles au XVe siècle. Il ne s'agit pas seulement d'un phénomène naturel mis au service de l'homme par la science, mais d'un élément central de l'épistémè moderne : l'électricité a inspiré des écrivains et des artistes, a servi de force d'impulsion au monde de l'industrie et de l'innovation et a redéfini les comportements sociaux. En explorant l'incidence de l'électricité sur le savoir, les pratiques sociales, les médias, la vie sociale et les expériences personnelles, cet ouvrage tente d'en saisir les aspects techniques et culturels dans toute leur complexité.

"Gender, Mediation and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830 examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "the public" - those on the receiving end of education - to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it. Author Susan Dalton looks at the question of how elite women turned their reputation for ignorance into an opportunity to establish themselves as authors at the dawn of the nineteenth century in Venice. Many literary figures saw women as a group in need of education. By deploying essentialist understandings of femininity, whereby women possessed superior moral virtue but deficient rationality, these women entered the publishing world as cultural mediators, identified by contemporaries as key players in the social projects of public education and moral edification central to the European Enlightenment. Focussing on Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi and Giustina Renier Michiel, both renowned Venetian authors, the author introduces two well-known Italian women of letters to English-speaking scholars; re-evaluates the impact of their writing in Italy and raises questions about female authorship across Europe; broadens our conceptions of gender norms; and enriches our knowledge of a little-known period of women's writing in Italy. This volume is an essential resource for students and scholars alike interested in women's and gender history, early modern history and social and cultural history"--