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From New Babylon to Eden
In a volume devoted to the first generation of Carolina Huguenots, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke describes in detail their gradual transformation from French refugees to South Carolina planters."--Jacket.
A Companion to the Huguenots
This volume offers an encompassing portrait of the Huguenots, among the best known of early modern religious minorities. It investigates the principal lines of historical development and suggests the interpretative frameworks that scholars have advanced for understanding the Huguenot experience.
Constructing Early Modern Empires
These essays on early modern Atlantic empires provide the first comprehensive treatment of this important vehicle of imperial formation and colonial development.
Memory and Identity
"This edited volume contains ... papers that were presented at the 1997 international symposium 'Out of New Babylon: The Huguenots and their Diaspora', held at the College of Charleston, South Carolina"-- Library of Congress.
Histoire des États-Unis
Du voyage fondateur de Christophe Colomb en 1492 jusqu’à l’élection de Donald Trump, cette magistrale Histoire des États-Unis retrace la naissance et le prodigieux essor d’une société multiculturelle sans cesse en mutation et du « rêve américain ». L’histoire des États-Unis puise son origine dans les bouleversements liés à l’apparition soudaine d’un Nouveau Monde dans la géographie mentale des Européens. Du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, les Anglais fondent des colonies le long du littoral du continent nord-américain de Terre-Neuve à la Géorgie : ils importent des esclaves africains et repoussent les sociétés amérindiennes au-delà des Appalaches. En 1776, l’Améri...
The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784)
In The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784): From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke offer the first scholarly volume examining Anthony Benezet, inspirator of 18th-century antislavery activism, as an Atlantic figure.
Diaspora Identities
Historical work on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries suggests that as nation-states were solidifying throughout Western Europe, exiled groups tended to develop rival national identities—an occurrence that had been fairly uncommon in the two preceding centuries. Diaspora Identities draws on eight case studies, ranging from the early modern period through the twentieth century, to explore the interconnectedness of exile, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism as concepts, ideals, attitudes, and strategies among diasporic groups. Die hier versammelten Studien eröffnen neue Perspektiven auf Nationalismus und Kosmopolitismus. Sie machen deutlich, dass schon vor dem »nationalen « 19. Jahrhundert im Kontext von Diaspora, Exil und Migration Identitäten und Verhaltensweisen entstanden, die zugleich kosmopolitisch und nationalistisch waren.
The Global Refuge
Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. French Protestant exiles fleeing persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, they scattered around Europe, North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The Global Refuge provides the first truly international history of the Huguenot diaspora. The story begins with dreams of Eden, as beleaguered religious migrants sought suitable retreats to build perfect societies far from the political storms of Europe. In order to build these communities, however, the Huguenots needed patrons, forcing them to navigate the world of empires. The refugees promoted the...
Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Communities in Exile
In the Early Modern period, the religious refugee became a constant presence in the European landscape, a presence which was felt, in the wake of processes of globalization, on other continents as well. During the religious wars, which raged in Europe at the time of the Reformation, and as a result of the persecution of religious minorities, hundreds of thousands of men and women were forced to go into exile and to restore their lives in new settings. In this collection of articles, an international group of historians focus on several of the significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The contributions here discuss a broad range of topics, including the ways in which these communities of belief retained their identity in foreign climes, the religious meaning they accorded to the experience of exile, and the connection between ethnic attachment and religious belief, among others.
L'Amérique avant les États-Unis. Une histoire de l'Amérique anglaise, 1497-1776
En 1497, l’Angleterre découvre l’Amérique : l’explorateur John Cabot, à la solde du roi Henry VII, aperçoit les rives de Terre-Neuve. C’est le début d’une aventure de près de trois siècles, au terme de laquelle naîtront les États-Unis d’Amérique. Comment s’est déroulée la conquête de ce territoire, arraché aux populations amérindiennes et aux concurrents espagnols, hollandais et français ? Comment aventuriers en quête de fortune, laissés pour compte de la vieille Europe, esclaves africains, marchands audacieux, se sont-ils mêlés pour bâtir de nouvelles sociétés ? Et par quelles voies ces colonies extrêmement diverses se sont-elles retrouvées ensemble sur le chemin de l’indépendance ? Dans cette grande fresque, qui fait pour la première fois la somme de toutes les connaissances sur l’Amérique anglaise, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke souligne les ruses de l’histoire : fondées sans politique prédéfinie, les colonies anglaises sont une construction du hasard. Rien ne laissait présager qu’elles deviendraient un ensemble impérial – encore moins une nation...
