33. La société coloniale

Entre 1974 et 1988, en à peine quatorze ans, la France légalise l’avortement, abolit la peine de mort, passe à gauche pour la première fois, invente la cohabitation, libère les ondes, découvre le SIDA, invente la Fête de la musique, et voit monter un parti d’extrême droite à l’As ...  Show more

Le 25 avril 1974, une révolution pacifique au Portugal renverse la dictature salazariste en place depuis 48 ans. Des jeunes officiers, des fleurs comme symboles de paix, et un pays métamorphosé.Plongez dans les racines, les moments forts et l'impact durable de cette révolution de ...  Show more

The British Empire was one of the most influential and far-reaching empires in history. Dan and his guest journalist and author Sathnam Sanghera remember school lessons on the small island that rose to global dominance. From the 16th century to the 20th century, the British Em ...

In her imaginative and scrupulous book, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa (Ohio University Press, 2014), historian Michelle Moyd writes about theaskari, Africans soldiers recruited in the ranks of the German East Af ...  Show more

The Empire that dare not speak its name. America was born through an explicit rejection of empire as it forced the British from the continent and indeed many of its citizens would baulk at the suggestion their nation is an empire. Yet, over its lifetime the empire of liberty, as ...  Show more

Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962, Militarizing Marriage West African Soldiers’ Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire (Ohio UP, 2021) historicizes how Afr ...  Show more