33. La société coloniale

Le 26 avril 1986, à 1h23 du matin, le réacteur n°4 de la centrale de Tchernobyl explose. En quelques secondes, le pire accident nucléaire civil de l'Histoire !40 ans après, voici le récit complet de cette nuit : l'expérience qui tourne au désastre, les milliers de liquidateurs en ...  Show more

Pendant 6 mois 1/2 (du 17 juillet 1942 au 2 février 1943), la bataille de Stalingrad a opposé les forces de l'Union soviétique à celles du Troisième Reich et de ses alliésCette confrontation a visé à prendre ou à conserver le contrôle de cette ville stratégique et surtout symboli ...  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