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economies of continental Europe 1850-1914, London 1977. MOKYR J. (ed.), The British industrial revolution: an economic perspective, Boulder, CO 1999. MOKYR J., The enlightened economy: the economic history of Britain, 1700-1850, Yale 2010. MORGAN, K., Slavery, Atlantic trade and the British economy, 1660-1800, Cambridge 2000. O’ROURKE K.H., WILLIAMSON, J.G., Globalization and history: the evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy, Cambridge, MA 1999. POLANYI, K., La grande transformation : aux

in the sociologists' literature. Normative pressures may begin with the actions of entrepreneurial non-state actors, but their beliefs only have significant influence once powerful state actors join the cause. Religious and liberal opposition to slavery, for example, was clearly important in fueling American and British leaders' preferences in the nineteenth century, but such views would not easily have become an international norm without the bayonets of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg or

(N.Y., Routledge), [2000]. 33 Par exemple Penny Venetis definite « l’esclavage » comme « girls and women [who] are not free to leave their brothels…and women who are kidnapped and sold to men as wives ». Voir P. VENETIS: International Sexual Slavery, 18 Women’S Rts. L.R. 267, [1997]. Et selon l’article 2 de la Convention internationale relative à la répression de la traite de blanche « Doit être puni quiconque, pour satisfaire les passions d’autrui, a, par fraude ou à l’aide de violences, menaces

rebellion of Protestant who rallied around (se rallier) his nephew the Duck of Monmouth. The Protestants were defeated, Monmouth was beheaded and James appointed Judge Jeffries to preside over the Bloody Assizes which executed, tortured or sent into slavery the Protestant rebels. James appointed Catholics to high positions and as a result, the Tories (conservative party) and the Whigs (opposition party) turned against him. Protestant members of Parliament invited Mary, James’s protestant Daughter and

today. With the social, political, and economic problems we face in the 21st century, and with multiple wars currently spanning the globe, the three slogans of the Party resound with an ominous and bone-chilling effect: “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” The message of 1984, and our own real-world battles with censorship, can be summed up in one of the most impactful quotes in the novel’s dialogue: “If there was hope, it must lie in the Proles, because only there, in those

politiques de répression menées par les Européens contre les mouvements d'indépendance dans les colonies, comme lors de la Première guerre d'Indochine (1945-1954). Notes et références[modifier] ↑ Voir ce document de l'UNESCO : Struggle against slavery [archive] ↑ Tristes tropiques, Ed. Plon, 1955, rééd. Pocket, pp. 486-487. « Vingt-cinq millions de citoyens musulmans » : à l’époque, la Tunisie et le Maroc ne sont pas encore indépendants. Cité et commenté par Alexandre Gerbi in Histoire occultée

power of decision. Even in those protest movements => not an equality between women and men. Increasing of the chauvinism. Feminist movement radicalised at the end of the 60’s when Kate Millett wrote a book “Sexual Politics” Marriage = slavery. Now there are groups much more radical, more violent than now. ⇨ NY radical women ⇨ Witch (women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) ⇨ Society to cut up men (SCUM) b) The “sexual revolution” Evolution obvious

century, Spain and North Africa came under the rule of a fanatic sect, the Mu'ahaddin, who forced conversion of Jews and Christians to Islam. Conversion to Islam was made particularly attractive because it resulted in reduction of taxes, freedom from slavery for captive and the possibility of advancement. Captive women forced to marry Muslims do not have to change their religion, but their children must be raised as Muslims. The persecution of Hindus under some of the Muslim Moghul emperor Auranzeb was

of regional America with its manners and dialects and were inspired by the tradition of oral tales and black folklore. They describe living conditions in the West, but also provide a strong sense of comedy call into question Southern principles, slavery for instance: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Realism in America exposed the social problems and evils resulting from an industrial society. The 1890s gave rise to a harsher form of realism, naturalism

The fourth president of the United States: Abraham Lincoln (elected in 1860) was responsible for various Land Acts. Lincoln saw that the Union was fragile. He wanted improvement and expansion. In Séquence 3 we will study his involvement against slavery in the United States. He also believed that the survival of his nation was westward expansion. While the towns of the East Coast were becoming increasingly crowded and industrialised, Lincoln ensured that settlers would go west and become farmers