Benton and Clulow's article echoes Isabelle Surun's analysis of early French imperialism in Western Africa:

▶️ Isabelle SURUN, Writing Sovereignty in Invisible Ink? Autochthonous Sovereignty and Territorial Appropriations in Nineteenth-Century Franco-African Treaties
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/S2398568200000741

#histodons #africa #frenchempire #informalempire #annalesinenglish

How to understand interracial intimacies in a colonial context, when they mainly developed "under the administrative radar," thus leaving few traces? Following the trajectory of one such family in New Caledonia with ethnographic and archival work, Adrian Muckle and Benoît Trépied reflect on the possibilities and limits of such intimate relationships, whose invisibility reveals tells us much about the limitations of colonial control.

▶️ Adrian MUCKLE & Benoît TRÉPIED, Under the Colonial Radar? The History and Memory of an “Invisible” Mixed-Race Household in New Caledonia
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.20

#AnnalesinEnglish #annaleshss #histodons @histodons #newcaledonia #frenchempire #colonialism #interracial #intimacy #anthropology

@histodons

McGill-Queens University Press is flexing some Canadian certainty with its code: SNOW30. Use to get 30% off all online book orders through December 31. (the sale will end, the snow will continue...)

Delighted to see that includes _The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink_ by @drninastuder. Part of the _Intoxicating Histories_ series, _The Hour of Absinthe_ shows, to quote its tag line: how colonialism, madness, and murder turned the green fairy into the opium of the West. 🧚‍♂️

https://www.mqup.ca/hour-of-absinthe-products-9780228022206.php

#colonialism #absinthe #France #history #histodons #FrenchEmpire #AlcoholHistory #Bookstodon

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

https://archive.org/details/slavery-and-the-french-revolutionists

Slavery and the French Revolutionists (1788-1805) by Anna Julia Cooper; Frances Richardson Keller

Topics
#slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #antiblackness, #frenchrevolution, #HaitianRevolution, #frenchempire, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #Haiti, #paris, #translatlanticslavetrade, #abolitionists, #abolitionism, #Martinique, #Matinik, #Matnik, #counterrevolution

The first translation and publication of a 1925 doctoral dissertation written for the University of Paris by a 67-year-old Black amerikan expatriate woman who had been born a slave. Her study of the french revolutionists' view of slavery is crucial to understanding the growth of human rights.