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L’abolition de l’esclavage au Royaume-Uni : débats et dissensions

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http://www.images.hachette-livre.fr/media/imgarticle/SEDES/2010/9782301000606-V.jpgL’abolition de l’esclavage au Royaume-Uni 1787-1840 : débats et dissension  / The abolition of slavery in Britain 1787-1840 : debate and dissension. Paris, Sedes, 2009. Ouvrage dirigé par Susan Finding, Professeur à l’université de Poitiers.

Entre 1787 et 1840 le Royaume-Uni et ses colonies connaissent une longue lutte entre partisans et opposants de la traite des esclaves et de l’esclavage. C’est ce combat, souvent intense, parfois violent, qu’étudient les contributions françaises et internationales réunies dans cet ouvrage. Leurs analyses portent sur le climat moral et intellectuel au Royaume-Uni à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle. Des thèmes particuliers et des cas d’études spécifiques sont abordés : les évangélistes, les baptistes, les femmes militantes de la cause abolitionniste, le port esclavagiste de Bristol, l’ex-esclave Equiano, le poète Coleridge, le réformateur Wilberforce, le débat économique.  À la croisée de plusieurs disciplines (études anglaises, histoire des idées, sciences politiques) cet ouvrage est destiné aux étudiants préparant le concours, ainsi qu’à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la civilisation anglophone.

Pour une revue de cet ouvrage voir Notes de lecture : Révauger Cécile   lien XVII-XVIII. Revue de la société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles,     Année   2011,    Volume   68,    Numéro   68,   pp. 203-205.

A collection of essays from scholars worldwide dealing with the issues concerning the context and content of the debates in Britain and its colonies during the fifty year struggle to implement the abolition of the slave trade and the institution of slavery from 1787 to 1840. Scholars from Australia, Britain, France, and the United States examine the moral and intellectual climate of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Britain. Themes include the Enlightenment, religion and romanticism, ethics and politics, transatlantic influences and abolitionist discourse. Case studies analyse particular aspects: the Evangelicals, the Baptists, women abolitionists, black Bristol, Equiano the former slave, Coleridge the poet, Wilberforce the reformer, the economic debate.  At the crossroads between English Studies, History, the History of Ideas and Politics, it will be of interest to students and scholars studying English literature and English-speaking cultures, the social, intellectual and political history of Britain and the Caribbean, and cross-cultural and transdisciplinary transfers.

John Briggs, Professor, Theology Department, University of Oxford.
Vernon Burton, Emeritus Professor of History, African American Studies, andSociology, University of Illinois.
John Coffey, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Leicester.
Deirdre Coleman, Robert Wallace Chair of English, University of Melbourne.
Laurent Curelly, Maître de conférences en civilisation britannique, Université de Haute-Alsace.
Madge Dresser, Reader in History, University of West England.
Susan Finding, Professeur de civilisation britannique, Université de Poitiers.
Trevor Harris, Professeur de civilisation britannique, Université François Rabelais, Tours.
Peter Kitson, Professor of English, University of Dundee.
Mason I. Lowance, Professor of English, University of Massachussetts, Amherst.
Lawrence McDonnell, Lecturer in History, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Clare Midgely, Professor of History, Sheffield Hallam University.
Veront M. Satchell, Senior Lecturer in History and Archeology, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Troy Smith, NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.
Timothy Wheelan, Professor of English Studies, Georgia Southern University.

Introduction (Susan Finding)

Les émeutes 2011 à Londres : repères historiques et comparaisons géographiques

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The eruption of unprecedented riots in London and their emulation in other English towns in August 2011 led to much chest-beating and heart-searching. This book puts some of the questions asked into perspective.

http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/9781443821506.jpgKeeping the Lid on: Urban Eruptions and Social Control since the 19th Century
Editor: Susan Finding, Logie Barrow and the late François Poirier
Date Of Publication: Jul 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-2150-6
Isbn: 1-4438-2150-0

The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are historians and geographers, linguists and cultural students. Their methodologies are very different, their sources poles apart. And yet, they address the same object of study, social and spatial segregation and urban eruptions, though severally defined: from epidemics to anarchist scares, urban uprisings to mental maps, or the reverberations of urban memories in song, novels and museums. Case studies consider the towns of Liverpool, London, Hull, New York, Salvador de Bahia, or more generally France and America. The networks created among intellectuals and labourers, anarchists and migrants, or the lack of communication between those who feel oppressed (rioters, strikers, anti-vaccination protesters) and those in control, are a further common denominator.

In a way, urban epidemics were the epitome of the repulsive character large cities possessed in the eyes even of their own inhabitants. If they were the receptacle of so many foreigners, and shady political characters, if they were the scenes of social and ethnic conflict, and violence, and promiscuity, and prostitution, and drunkenness, and pauperism, they were of necessity a festering sore which nothing could eradicate.

It is strange that something of this fear should linger on today—otherwise, how can one explain the lacunae in the official memory of museums?—despite the cultural efforts produced in the opposite direction, with Ackroyd’s love for East-End London, with the revival of a Little Italy in every major American city, with the nostalgic folklorisation of past miseries in Salvador de Bahia and in popular song. What sense of belonging can be generated by an obliteration of the past, what dynamic local culture can spring from an absence, from a hole in collective memory? This book goes some way to filling those gaps.

Susan Finding, Professor in British Studies, has taught at Poitiers Univerity since 1987, after gaining her DPhil from the University of Sussex. Her research interests lie in social and political history, notably on questions of education and family policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. She most recently edited Abolition in Britain (1787–1840): Debate and Dissension (Paris: Sedes, 2009).

Logie Barrow taught the social history of all more or less English-speaking countries outside North America at the University of Bremen from 1980 to 2008. He retired so as to spend more time researching history. He is the author of Democratic Ideas And the British Labour Movement, 1880–1914, with Ian Bullock, (2nd edition; Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850–1910 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986).

François Poirier (†2010) was Lecturer at Université Paris 8, before he was appointed to a professorship at neighbouring Université Paris 13 in 1993. He published extensively on issues related to British politics, English social history, and Franco-British interaction. He sat on numerous academic boards in France and abroad. Among other books, he edited Londres, 1939–1945 (Paris: Autrement, 1995); News from Nowhere: William Morris (Paris: Armand Colin, 2004) with Elizabeth Gaudin; and Cordiale Angleterre—Regards trans-manche à la belle époque (Paris: Ophrys, 2010). The present volume is one of many tributes to him.

For Contents, Introduction and Chapter 1 click on this link.