Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations.

Voltaire,

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“…54 It is worth mentioning that the edition of the Essai sur les moeurs that is currently being published as part of the complete works of Voltaire is a universal history with footnotes: the editors have retrieved Voltaire's sources, which are discussed in detail at the bottom of each page. 55 Voltaire's apparent rejection of antiquarianism and erudition was driven by a positive preference for modern history. This preference stemmed first from methodological considerations: ''Modern history has the advantage of being more certain, because of the very fact that it is modern.''…”

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The “Exasperating Predecessor”: Pocock on Gibbon and Voltaire

Force¹

2016

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This article offers a critical discussion of Pocock's analysis of the relationship between Gibbon and Voltaire, and particularly the extent to which Decline and Fall was inspired by Voltaire's Essai sur les moeurs. It shows that "Momigliano's hypothesis" about the divorce of philosophy and erudition and their reconciliation in Gibbon was initially a commentary by Momigliano on Voltaire's historical work. It argues that the "Momiglianian model" plays a central role in Pocock's argument in Barbarism and Religion. In that sense, understanding Gibbon's highly ambiguous appraisal of Voltaire helps us understand the overall purpose of Decline and Fall.

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The “Exasperating Predecessor”: Pocock on Gibbon and Voltaire

Force¹

2016

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“…2) (2009), Lieberman seeks distant, albeit dimly connected parallels through his pursuit of a common narrative of historical change, especially relating to state consolidation and bureaucratic centralisation. Even so, connected histories of events have a long pedigree, just as we recall Voltaire's pioneering global history, Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations (1756), critically pronouncing upon the general crisis of seventeenth century Europe, but also remarking upon parallel uprisings in Europe, India, China and Japan.…”

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East-Southeast Asia in World History: The Making of a World Region

Gunn¹

2014

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Global trends which have seen the dramatic rise of the East-Southeast Asian economies suggests a turning of the wheel. Students of world history will recall the central place of China and India in the pre-modern world as producers and exporters of, variously, silks, ceramics and textiles, just as their populations and economies vastly dwarfed those of medieval Europe. The sprawling tropical zone of Southeast Asia, known historically as a prime source of spices and natural commodities, also boasted impressive civilisations. Still we are perplexed as to how a region boasting internationally known trade emporium dropped off the centre stage of world history. Reading back, did colonialism and imperialism turn the tide against indigenous agency? Or was stagnation an inevitable feature of life in pre-modern Southeast Asia? In seeking to answer these and other questions, this article both replays and critiques the many constructions of the broader East-Southeast Asia region, including its historiography, with special attention to recent trends in the framing of world-regional and global history. This is important, I argue, as localism, powerful state narratives, and the legacies of colonial conceptions and categories all contrive to ignore the importance of a holistic framing of this part of the globe.

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“…Today, the richness and diversity of the environment, its long winters, and wilderness are still frequently used to promote these territories to the rest of the world. These features were, however, not always praised, as the comments of Voltaire (1756:42) remind us: “a country covered with snows and ices eight months of the year, inhabited by barbarians, bears and beavers.” This article explores changing perceptions of wilderness in the Quebec City area between A.D. 1535 and 1900 as reflected in the consumption of wild indigenous plants. It highlights the gaps between historical discourse and realities of daily life by contrasting historical documents and archaeobotanical evidence.…”

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Savage Lands, Civilizing Appetites: Power and Wilderness in Quebec City (1535–1900)

Bouchard-Perron

2017

Am. Antiq.

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Quebec City (Canada) is well-known for its unique wild environments and its protected cultural heritage, which have attracted tourists to the area for centuries. Often taken for granted or overlooked, the interactions between its natural and cultural landscape have been scantly investigated in a diachronic perspective in archaeology. This article explores the relationship between Quebec City's colonists/inhabitants and their surrounding territory, through the study of food plants for the period between 1535 and 1900. It contrasts visitors’ accounts and official discourses with daily experience using a combination of historical and archaeobotanical evidence to unravel how changing historical, social, and political contingencies impacted past perceptions of “wilderness” as manifested in food choices. In this process, the consumption of local indigenous plants has been interpreted as a form of incorporation of local environments that can enlighten us about popular attitudes toward the New World's natural features.

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Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations.

Cited by 14 publications

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The “Exasperating Predecessor”: Pocock on Gibbon and Voltaire

The “Exasperating Predecessor”: Pocock on Gibbon and Voltaire

East-Southeast Asia in World History: The Making of a World Region

Savage Lands, Civilizing Appetites: Power and Wilderness in Quebec City (1535–1900)

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