Cet article de synthèse veut dépasser le cloisonnement des historiographies nationales pour montrer l’importance aspirations aux réformes agraires, celles modes propriété et d’exploitation la terre. Dans l’Europe Lumières, les échanges d’idées d’expériences agronomiques sont intenses, ils indissociables réflexions sur l’économie politique l’organisation sociale. Les premières tentatives réforme...

Summary Leagues of Friends are charities that provide ‘personal service to patients’ and ‘supply hospitals with equipment not likely come from the budgeting authorities’. Hundreds continue exist, many trace their origins before NHS’s foundation in 1948. Despite rich growing historiographies voluntarism NHS, have received little attention. This article uses case studies English West Midlands sho...

Abstract Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related sexuality have led a growing number scholars in recent years place practices at center critical historical inquiries sexual desire, subjectivity, embodiment. At same time, new histories science serve both expand temporal geographical frames for investigating relationships sex production, generate line...

This essay tries to analyse the way in which Jesuit priest Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671) and his ideas were evaluated by traditional modern Historiographies, from seventeenth twentieth century, secular ecclesiastic ambiances Italy, having mind possibility of historical forgetfulness contribution this offered science century. For this, use Contextual, Historiographical Epistemological a...

Following the ‘archival turn’ of 1990s and early 2000s, scholars have understood archives as entwined in epistemic hierarchies power. The study gender sexuality, alongside postcolonial approaches were central to this critical shift, advancing methods that both challenged archive a fixed entity historical truth broadened perceptions where history is made. Queer feminist historians since drawn at...

Africa can stir wild and fanciful notions in the casual visitor; one of these is the tale of inebriated wild elephants. The suggestion that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) becomes intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) is an attractive, established, and persistent tale. This idea now permeates the African tourist industry, historical travelogues, the...

Abstract The European travel narratives that follow the discovery of New World have already been extensively studied, from historical, anthropological and literary perspectives. However, we would like to reread them perspective tension between a “marvellous possession” (Greenblatt 1991) more profound failure. early travelogues show complex discursive architecture with textual subject facing an ...