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Durant les siècles qu’a duré l’esclavage résultant de la traite négrière transatlantique, les processus de conditionnement, de répression et de déshumanisation se sont concentrés sur le corps de l’esclave.
Rafael Lucas
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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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”Où en est la nuit, Monsieur ?” : écrire la Terreur
L’article analyse les rapports entre l’histoire et la fiction, le réel et l’imaginaire, l’écriture et l’image en explorant les pistes offertes par le roman Les Onze de Pierre Michon qui décrit la commande d’un tableau faite à un peintre, Corentin, tous ...
N. Ivić
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L’enfant-soldat dans les fictions africaines [PDF]
Résumé : Lors des conflits, les chefs de guerre font recours au recrutement massif d’enfants pour renforcer leurs troupes. Ces jeunes en manque de repère deviennent les soldats les plus craints durant les périodes de trouble.
OUMAROU NA-AWA Mariama
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression
Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
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An Economic Model of the French Revolution
ABSTRACT We offer a new economic perspective on the French Revolution by analyzing how an elite commitment problem and trade policy shaped revolutionary dynamics. We develop a complete‐information game‐theoretic model in which revolution can occur on the equilibrium path.
Kishore Gawande, Ben Zissimos
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Cet article analyse, dans la perspective politique et esthétique, le phénomène de la destruction des visages des « ennemis du peuple » sur les photographies de groupe dans la Russie stalinienne.
Denis Skopin
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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
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The Women of Corsican Nationalism: Between Tradition and Modernity (1975–98)
Abstract This article investigates late twentieth‐century Corsican nationalism through the lens of gender, drawing attention to how women have sought to play an active and creative role in the movement. Through a series of interviews with female nationalist militants, this article will focus on what belonging to the nationalist movement meant to ...
DEBORAH PACI
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Abstract Louise Aston's work during the 1840s is usually read within the context of the author's life and biography. This paper differs from this reading. Instead, I explore the extent to which a reading fixated on the author's life runs the risk of overlooking the perspective of behaviours and gender roles that Aston portrayed in her fictional worlds.
Andree Michaelis‐König
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