[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
History Today presents the viewpoints of “four distinguished scholars [who] consider a historical question of enormous contemporary resonance:” Carla Gardina Pestana, Marlene Daut, Stephen Wilkinson, and Ada Ferrer.
‘The Caribbean became a focal point of rivalries among Europeans, a location where imperial contests were fought’
Carla Gardina Pestana, Author of
The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire (Belknap Harvard, 2017).
The Caribbean ushered in the modern world. Most infamously, it was the site of full-blown racial slavery – a horrific institution founded on the commodification of people as objects of exploitation – which was perpetrated on a massive scale. The Caribbean population intermixed not just European, African and indigenous American, but also housed a great diversity from within Europe itself. All the groups that crossed the Atlantic from Europe cam
Macron negotiates politically charged Napoleon commemoration
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05/05/2021 - 04:02 Macron is to seek a middle path between those who wanted a celebration of Napoleon, and others who called for a boycott. Ian LANGSDON POOL/AFP 4 min
Paris (AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron is to lay a wreath at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte to mark the 200th anniversary of his death on Wednesday after months of debate about the legacy of the country s most famous autocrat.
Macron waited until the last minute to announce his plans for the tricky bicentenary and is seeking to walk a middle path between those who wanted a celebration, and others who called for a boycott.
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