33. La société coloniale

La Croix-Rouge, c'est l'une des organisations humanitaires les plus célèbres et les plus respectées au monde. Présente dans 192 pays, elle incarne depuis plus de 160 ans l'idée que même au cœur de la violence et du chaos, il est possible de protéger les êtres humains.Mais savez-v ...  Show more

Entre le XVIIe et le XVIIIe siècle, la société d'ordres de l'Ancien Régime est à son apogée. Tiers-État, Noblesse, Clergé : tout semble immuable et le destin fixé dès la naissance. Pourtant, sous les privilèges, les fractures sont nombreuses. Découvrez ce monde radicalement diffé ...  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