Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht | Ausgabe Nr. 9/10 2023

Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, as well as the United States, Africa and Asia, The European Way since Homer is a three-volume journey through the political, cultural, religious, intellectual, social and geographical history of Europe. It synthesises over 150 chapters on topics from across the spectrum of people, places, ideas, art, objects and events that have influenced the shaping of the continent. In turn, this rich tapestry provides us with unique insights into the nature of European identity, the importance of European heritage and the relationship that exists between Europe and the world beyond its boundaries.

Volume 3 investigates the different links between Europe and the rest of the world. There is a focus on Europe's imperial past, as well as the subsequent soft power of Europe and its constant commercial and cultural exchanges with others parts of the world.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/european-way-since-homer-history-memory-identity-9781350058668/

Building on the new critical historiography about the evolution of the European state, the book analyses how administrators, scientists, popular publicists and other actors tried to redefine the realms of state action in the "Sattelzeit" (Koselleck). By focussing on the specific strategies of these actors and on the transnational circulation and dissemination of state related knowledge itself, the contributors of the book highlight the fluidity and the interconnections of the European debate in the crucial period of the development of the modern nationstate and its administration. They study the common European features of the evolution of a new type of statehood built upon multiple circulations and transfers that forged administrative practices in the different fields of state action. Analysing important fields of expertise ranging from agricultural knowledge, mining sciences to anthropological knowledge, which laid the basis for the new "scientific" foundations of administration, the book underlines the necessity of a re-evaluation of the classical approaches to the history of state in the 18th and 19th centuries.

L’actualité politique au Moyen-Orient, en Turquie et au Maghreb attire notre attention sur la question de la place des minorités dans les régions qui bordent la Méditerranée. La notion moderne de minorité a été généralement présentée par l’historiographie comme le résultat des débats des experts internationaux au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale. Or, la Méditerranée du xixe siècle constitue un terrain particulièrement fécond pour une analyse des multiples dynamiques de la construction des minorités. Cet ouvrage interroge les modalités de la fixation des identités par les États impériaux et par les minorités elles-mêmes. Il accorde une attention particulière à l’articulation entre les critères religieux, linguistiques, nationaux et territoriaux dans la catégorisation de ces identités collectives et individuelles. Il apporte un éclairage sur la mise en place de nouveaux modes d’administration des minorités, montrant les circulations et les transferts des normes et des pratiques, entre minorités au sein d’un même empire, mais aussi d’un empire à l’autre. Privilégiant l’approche comparatiste, ce livre collectif entend contribuer à une histoire croisée des minorités, en faisant dialoguer les historiographies de l’aire ottomane, des mondes coloniaux et de l’Europe.