La microhistoire globale : affaire(s) à suivre

Bertrand, Romain; Calafat, Guillaume

doi:10.1017/ahss.2018.108

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“…only when appropriate. 3 The authors use the concept of microhistory with full awareness of its metamorphosis over the years, from the first Italian school to its more recent, multifaceted, re-significations (Bertrand and Calafat 2018). The works in this special issue adopt an acception of the word "microhistory" that emerged in relation to global history studies.…”

Section: Agent Of Global Change: the Hispanic World After The Collaps...mentioning

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The Hispanic World at War and the Global Transformation of Commerce. Global Merchants in Spanish America: Business, Networks and Independence (1800-1830)

Besseghini

Permanyer-Ugartemendia²

2023

JESB

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This special issue investigates how in the times of war, political turmoil, and disruption of commercial practices during the Age of Revolutions two centuries ago, merchants appear as demiurges of a new order. This is part of a polycentric reading of epochal transformations that does not deny the primacy of politics and military power in establishing relations of force, but which underline the complex negotiations at their base. The collection of essays looks at the profound global consequences of the fall of the Spanish American empire, particularly as they related to the decline of mercantilism and the reconfiguration of both Atlantic and inter-Pacific commerce. A crucial element in this transformation was the war economy, which had implications not only in Spanish America, but in the whole of the Hispanic world and beyond. Global merchants or businessmen —foreigners and Hispanic— strategically located in the Hispanic World, whose networks and affairs linked Europe, Asia and the Americas, worked within the vacuum created by the crisis of the Spanish monarchy in what was a fluid and foundational moment. The essays investigate how the Napoleonic Wars and the Wars of Independence against Spain accelerated the emergence of new actors, practices, rules and commercial circuits, by analyzing the personal and business networks that built, redefined and renegotiated the role of Hispanic America in the global economy. This prosopography of merchants thus shows trajectories through which, despite infinite difficulties, global and transregional merchants appear as one of the maieutic forces in the birth of the modern world.

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The Hispanic World at War and the Global Transformation of Commerce. Global Merchants in Spanish America: Business, Networks and Independence (1800-1830)

Besseghini

Permanyer-Ugartemendia²

2023

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“…As noted by Romain Bertrand and Guillaume Calafat in their analysis of global micro-history, to follow an actor "leads the historian to question situations that are unfamiliar, that is to say little documented and rarely mentioned with the same fanfare of those that commonly emerge from the tales of public history." 86 One might follow their line of thought and consider material things as tools to address the "little documented" or to provide lateral thinking in historical research. I call these "situational things," as the material is mobilized to provide a new perspective on historical events and occasions that often transcend specific individuals.…”

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The “Material Turn” in World and Global History

Riello¹

2022

Journal of World History

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This article charts the confluence and eventual overlap between two different fields: that of world/global history and that of material culture. At a basic level, world and global historians' interest in "things" is the result of the fact that material artefacts-whether commodities, luxuries, scientific tools, ethnographic specimens or unique art objects-have been seen as mobile as than people. Yet, the so-called "material turn" in world/global history also raises a series of methodological and theoretical questions. I start with a historiographic overview to map the major currents and areas of global history affected by a "material turn." Moving from a historiographical to a conceptual plane, the main body of this article is dedicated to showing how material culture might come to the assistance of world/global history. It provides a series of methodological and theoretical tools for historians to play with established narratives and to revise the conceptualization of connectivity-a key concept in global history. I conclude with some reflections on how a material approach might relate to recent forays into what is now called global microhistory, addressing issues of agency and the relationship between academic and public history.

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“…Del Techo escribe en su Historia que los jesuitas evangelizaban "sin otra arma que la cruz" (Del Techo, 1673, p. 379).5 Respecto a la "microhistoria global" verBertrand & Calafat, 2018;Ghobrial, 2019;Pons, 2013. …”

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Entre la cruz y la pluma

Mira

2022

IHS

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Nicolás del Techo deja definitivamente Europa en 1640 para llegar a Paraguay, donde será misionero hasta su muerte, en 1685. En esa nueva tierra, escribe una historia de la provincia jesuítica del Paraguay, la cual es la más antigua que poseemos. La “Historia Provinciae Paraquariae Societatis Iesu” se imprimirá por fin en Lieja, en 1673. A lo largo de su vida, Nicolás del Techo escribió a veces textos como la Historia o cartas, y otras veces se dedicó a la escritura de biografías. Todos esos documentos, hoy en día conservados en varios países de Europa y Sudamérica, permiten trazar el hilo de su vida intercontinental y de ubicar la redacción de la Historia, en Paraguay, entre 1658 y 1673. El objetivo de este artículo será entonces estudiar por qué y cómo del Techo, hombre de campo, se convirtió en un hombre de letras en un entorno particular, el de las reducciones.

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La microhistoire globale : affaire(s) à suivre

Cited by 17 publications

References 44 publications

The Hispanic World at War and the Global Transformation of Commerce. Global Merchants in Spanish America: Business, Networks and Independence (1800-1830)

The Hispanic World at War and the Global Transformation of Commerce. Global Merchants in Spanish America: Business, Networks and Independence (1800-1830)

The “Material Turn” in World and Global History

Entre la cruz y la pluma

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