Avis aux américanistes! La revue @nuevomundo.ehess.fr est en quête d'articles pour sa section "Guide de la recherche américaniste", en particulier concernant le Pérou:
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Et la Caraïbe:
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@nuevomundo.ehess.fr

New #book #review!
@thomasmareite.bsky.social reviewed *A Southern #Underground #Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country,* by Paul M. Pressly:

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"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. (...) Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

📢 New publication! Out now online and in print: "'Sterile in Spanish Hands': French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution", by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, French Historical Studies 48, no. 1 (2025): 37-64. @sfhs.bsky.social

👉 Here's a link to the online version: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

(...) as a frequent backdrop. Many of these projects aimed to establish new colonies in the Caribbean, replicating the once prosperous economic model of Saint-Domingue. They envisioned these new colonies as bases for re-establishing French influence in the Caribbean and/or the reconquest of Haiti.

(...) It examines efforts to revitalize the French imperial presence in the Caribbean in the context of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Imperial officials & former colonists proposed ambitious plans for new French imperial projections in the Caribbean, with the Spanish colony of Cuba (...)

(...) in the Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer. Entitled “Quelques idées sur l'isle espagnole de Cuba”, this document relates a mission of around a year to Santiago de Cuba, at the end of which Lambert suggested the acquisition of all or part of this Spanish colony. (...)

This weekend I received from @sfhs.bsky.social a copy of my contribution to the latest issue of French Historical Studies. This article is based on the discovery of a memoir written in 1807 by Alexandre-Joseph Lambert, colonial sub-inspector in Guadeloupe, preserved (...)

Autour de l'histoire du lien national et du droit du sol aujourd'hui menacé @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

I had the joy of being a guest on Wendy Aris' impressive podcast project "Dis a fi mi History" on the history of the Caribbean recently. We are talking about refugees from the Haitian Revolution in Jamaica, and the relevance of this history for Jamaicans today. You can listen to my ramblings here 👇

Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled.

For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️

Oh look what has arrived today! Thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social and everyone involved in getting this out! Worlds of the ring is a rich cultural history that explores the circus from a transnational angle

Please share and maybe request for your library! Happy that my book “Worlds of the Ring: Nation and Empire in the British and German Circus” will be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social later this month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175090/