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The Acadian Refugees in France, 1758-1785
On May 10, 1785, the Bon Papa, a modest three-master of 280 tons, hoisted its sails at Paimboeuf, France, near Nantes, and headed west. On board were thirty-six families whom the owner of the boat had promised to bring to port. The ship, which arrived at its destination on July 29, 1785--after eighty days on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters--was only the first of seven ships carrying nearly 1,600 Acadians to Spain's Louisiana colony. Thirty years, almost to the day, before the arrival of Bon Papa in New Orleans, seven or eight times as many Acadians had embarked on ships from Nova Scotia, Canada. Between July 28 and July 31, 1755, the English governor of the colony, Charles Lawrence, a...
Des esclaves énergétiques
Ce livre explore les liens historiques et les similarités entre esclavage et utilisation contemporaine des énergies fossiles et montre comment l’histoire peut nous aider à lutter contre le changement climatique. Il décrit d’abord le rôle moteur de la traite dans l’industrialisation au XVIIIe siècle en Grande-Bretagne, puis explique comment l’abolition de l’esclavage peut être pensée en lien avec l’industrialisation. En multipliant les bras «virtuels», les nouveaux esclaves énergétiques que sont les machines ont en effet progressivement rendu moins nécessaire le recours au travail forcé. L’ouvrage explore ensuite les similarités troublantes entre l’utilisation des énergies fossiles aujourd’hui et l’emploi de la main-d’œuvre servile hier, et les méthodes utilisées par les abolitionnistes pour parvenir à faire interdire la traite et l’esclavage. Ces méthodes peuvent encore inspirer aujourd’hui l’action politique pour décarboner la société.
The Politics of Expertise
Offers a challenging new interpretation of politics in contemporary Britain through an examination of non-governmental organisations. Demonstrate how politics and political activism has changed over the last half century.
A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain
Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and influenced.
Les réfugiés acadiens en France
Presque deux cents ans avant l’arrivée en France de près d’un million de Pieds-Noirs contraints de quitter l’Algérie, l’administration française avait déjà dû faire face à une première vague de rapatriement de colons. Entre six mille et huit mille réfugiés venus du Canada et de l’Acadie arrivèrent dans divers ports français en 1758. « Toutes vos terres et habitations, bétail de toute sorte et cheptel de toute nature, sont confisqués par la Couronne [britannique], ainsi que tous vos autres biens, sauf votre argent et vos meubles, et vous devez être vous-mêmes enlevés de cette Province qui lui appartient. » L’ordre de déportation du lieutenant-colonel John Wins...
Child Protection in England, 1960–2000
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England. Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed an expertise grounded in experience and emotion that supported, challenged, and subverted medical, social work, legal, and political authority. New forms of experiential and emotional expertise were manifested in politics – through consultation, voting, and lobbying – but also in the reshaping of everyday life, and in new partnerships formed between voluntary spokespeople and media. While becoming subjects of, and agents in, child protection politics over the late twentieth century, children, parents, and survivors also faced barriers to enacting change, and the book traces how long-standing structural hierarchies, particularly around gender and age, mediated and inhibited the realisation of experiential and emotional expertise.
Oil, Power, and War
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces ...
The Gardener's Dirty Hands
"Noah Toly offers an interpretation of environmental politics that draws upon Christian theological insights into the tragic - the need to forego, give up, undermine, or destroy one or more goods in order to possess or secure one or more other goods. Toly engages Christian and classical Greek ideas of the tragic nature of the human, which arises from humanity's great powers of thought and technological mastery combined with a greater capacity to err than that of other species, in responding to intractable or 'wicked' problems of environmental politics. He suggests that Christians have unique symbolic resources - including the cruciform identity of Christ/the Church - to enable societies to exercise power over the environment responsibly while acknowledging the need for mutually agreed, and ultimately normative, legal, restraints"--
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. While written in a format comprehensible to junior-high and high-school students, it will prove appealing and informative as well to adult readers seeking a one-volume exploration of these remarkable people and their predecessors. The narrative follows the Cajuns' early ancestors, the Acadians, from seventeenth-century France to Nova Scotia, where they flourished until British soldiers expelled them in a tragic event called Le Grand Dérangement (The Great Upheaval)—an episode regarded by many historians as an instance of ethnic cleansing or genocide. Up...
Uniting Nations
A study of the personal histories and interconnected lives and careers of the Britons who worked at the United Nations after 1945.
