Académie Julian: the French artistic model from a Transatlantic perspective (1880-1920)
Académie Julian was founded in 1867 in Montmartre, offering students studies of live models and...
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Aimé Bonpland
Le parcours d’Aimé Bonpland met en relief les interactions et les attractions scientifiques,...
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Alexandre Vattemare, pionnier des échanges culturels
Au milieu du XIXe siècle, Alexandre Vattemare s'évertua à promouvoir en Europe et dans les Amériques...
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Amália Rodrigues in Africa
Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was responsible for the popularization of fado in her own country and in...
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American Studies: the Cultural Branch of U.S. Empire?
American Studies was meant to emancipate U.S. culture from its British tutelage. It became a tool of...
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American working methods in Jacques Tati’s films and on French television
Jacques Tati’s films lampoon France’s fascination with the United States during the early postwar...
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Americanization through the Arts
This collection focuses on analyses of artworks and brings together articles that examine the...
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Artistic Education and Artist Training
The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since...
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Born in Cangrejos, Puerto Rico, in 1874, Schomburg became close to the group of studies coordinated by...
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Blanche and Alfred Knopf: circulating transatlantic literature
In 1915, the Knopfs founded a publishing company focusing on translations of contemporary European...
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Boris Vian, inventor of America
During his short life, Boris Vian introduced American culture to France in his two favorite forms:...
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Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz
The article investigates the phenomenon of Bossa Nova, its most relevant aesthetic traces and the...
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Boxing
Boxing is a major modern sport. Codified in England at the end of the eighteenth century, it became a...
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“C’era un Ragazzo...Era un muchacho...Era um garoto...”: uma balada pop italiana e seus ecos...
“C’era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones” gravada originalmente em italiano,...
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Can one « jazz » the French language ?
The preface to Paul Morand’s collection Magie noire (1929) has been the subject of much discussion,...
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Revista Cine Cubano
A revista Cine Cubano, criada em 1960, promoveu por mais de quatro décadas a circulação de notícias e...
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Cinema
The section approaches the historical and cultural practices that involve cinema in the transatlantic...
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Cinema at world’s fairs: historical and cultural practices
This article addresses the historical and cultural practices that involve the cinema in the...
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Circulating West-African Photographs in the Atlantic Visualscape
In the second half of the 19th century, photographs circulated widely in a triangular region...
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Circulations transatlantiques de la laïcité
Alors que la laïcité est souvent présentée comme "une exception française", elle est le résultat de...
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Comics in Newspapers, Magazines and Books: a Transatlantic Panorama
An overview of the history of comics from a transatlantic perspective. It is focused on the cultural...
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Concert Music in Brazil
Although Brazilian musical modernism had a strong nationalistic appeal, it was also a product of the...
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Cordel
The essay adresses the cordel literature as part of a broader set of popular printed literature...
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Cultural Diplomacy from Propaganda to Soft Power
Either directly or through the non-governmental institutions and actors, states have also played a...
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Curating the Black Atlantic: An Overview of Exhibitions, 1989-2022
As the follow-on from a class project, this article presents a critical history of art exhibitions on...
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Cycling Across the Atlantic: A discussion of cycling culture in the Atlantic Region
Cycling has gone through standardization and modernization processes that have functionally brought...
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Disaster and Progress in Cultural Representations of the Titanic
This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Titanic disaster in 1912 in literature, art, cinema, and...
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Domestic Cinema and Travel Films: images between Brazil and Europe (1920-1930)
In 1922, Pathé-Frères launched the Pathé-Baby projector in the French market, a small hand crank...
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Edição
A rubrica reúne textos que enfrentam o desafio de refletir sobre a rede transnacional que, sobretudo a...
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Educação universal: o ensino mútuo na primeira metade do século XIX
O “plano de ensino mútuo” foi um projeto educacional desenvolvido pela British and Foreign School...
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Education
Beginning in the 18th century, the field of education has been characterized by intense transatlantic...
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El mundo impreso en las Exposiciones Universales
Una mirada a las razones la presencia de libros e impresos en las exposiciones universales. Se...
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European research in Kodak’s early years
For nearly a century, knowledge management by the Kodak company relied on the circulation of...
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Faire comprendre la Suisse aux Américains : la radio internationale helvétique après la...
La radio, en particulier avec le développement des ondes courtes, est un outil indispensable au...
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Fernando Ortiz and the Transatlantic Exchange Network
Fernando Ortizs pioneering work established the foundations for the study of the black population in...
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Fonografia digital e circulação musical transatlântica
O artigo apresenta os principais processos envolvidos na produção e circulação da música gravada...
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Francophonie: A Historical Word, A Contemporary Idea
The word Francophonie was created at the end of the 19th century in the context of French...
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Franklin Book Programs: The Cold War and US Cultural Imperialism
Franklin Book Programs was a non-governmental US program aimed at stimulating the publishing market...
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass’s life stood at the crossroads of the national and transatlantic connections that...
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French travelers in the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century – in Brazil and in Africa
The expeditions approached by this essay allow us to see how French travelers were present in the...
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Freud and Latin America: An Early Relationship
Throughout the 20th century, psychoanalysis has generated a “culture”, vastly overflowing its original...
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From Europe to Hollywood, and back. The Classic Hollywood Film Score
How did migrations of composers from Central and Eastern Europe to the United States shape the sound...
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Garnier Publishers: from France to the Transatlantic Space
Garnier Booksellers-Publishers were the first international company specialized in books. It existed...
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Gilberto Freyre and the geopolitics of race: the transatlantic circulation of Casa-grande &...
How did Casa-grande & senzala , Gilberto Freyre's main work, navigate between different scenarios and...
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Gilberto Gil
“I knew that music would be my language and that I would discover the world through it.” From the ...
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Gisèle Freund: The Life of a Story-Teller with Camera, Retold
This re-appraisal of Berlin-born, French-naturalized, Jewish photographer and sociologist Gisèle...
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Glauber Rocha
A dimensão transatlântica do projeto estético do cineasta brasileiro Glauber Rocha será discutida a...
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Gordon Parks
Cet article s'intéresse aux tensions générées par la position de Gordon Parks (1912-2006) : un...
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Henri Barbusse: pacifism and antifacism in the Americas
One of the first ‘war novels’ to be published in the twentieth century, Le Feu made Henri Barbusse...
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Hispano-Americanism
Hispano-Americanism, which emerged in the 1880s and lasted throughout the twentieth century, was a...
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Hitchcock, un Anglais à Hollywood
Toute la carrière d’Alfred Hitchcock est placée sous le signe du transatlantique. Rêvant très tôt des...
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Immigrants in New York: Cinematographic Representations (1898-1914)
Statue of Liberty, a small film of approximately fifty seconds produced by the Thomas Edison Company,...
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Instituto Cubano del Arte e Indústria Cinematográficos
ICAIC was the first cultural body created in Cuba after the Revolution in accordance with Law 169,...
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Intellectuals
This section examines how the movements of thinkers and ideas around the Atlantic basin produced...
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Johnny Weissmuller
From swimming pools (five Olympic gold medals) to Hollywood, including his appearance in Tarzan,...
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L’Alliance française sur le continent américain
Tournée vers le continent américain dès son origine, l’Alliance française développa ses propres...
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L’Atlantique ovale ou les transformations du rugby
À partir du foyer britannique, et en concomitance avec la création du football/soccer, le rugby se...
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L’éducation américaine à l'Exposition universelle de 1900
À l’Exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris, les autorités états-uniennes présentent au public parisien...
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L’orientalisme hispano-américain
L’orientalisme hispano-américain est une dimension de la production littéraire hispanique depuis 1810....
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La diplomacia cultural de México en el Siglo XX
La diplomacia cultural fue un componente importante en la política exterior de México a lo largo del...
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La Maison de l’Afrique à la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
Créée au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Maison de la France d’Outre-mer, devenue Maison de l...
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La réception française de la pensée de Dewey dans le champ éducatif
La pensée éducative de John Dewey a connu une réception contrastée au cours du siècle qui s’est écoulé...
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Le revival de la musique bretonne : une déclinaison locale des contre-cultures américaines
Au tournant des années des années 1960 et 1970, un mouvement revivaliste a produit en Bretagne ce que...
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Le théâtre communautaire argentin : réseaux et circulations
Le mouvement du théâtre communautaire argentin, né dans les années 1980, est aujourd’hui une référence...
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Les années yéyé : des chansons américaines sous-titrées ?
Au début des années 1960, les chansons yéyé sont réputées responsables d'une irruption massive de...
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Les déclinaisons atlantiques du Tour de France par deux enfants
Livre de lecture par excellence de l’école laïque sous la Troisième République, Le Tour de la France...
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Les Sociétés françaises de Géographie : savoirs et explorations atlantiques (1821-1923)
Les Sociétés de Géographie et autres Geographical Societies cherchèrent à faire partager à un public...
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Les Strakosch, les Maretzek et les Grau : imprésarios moraves à New York
L’histoire du concert américain s'inscrit dans l'histoire des migrations. Vers 1850, de jeunes...
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Les tournées de Sarah Bernhardt dans les Amériques
Centré sur les tournées de l’artiste Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) aux Amériques et spécialement au...
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Levitt-villes in France
In 1965, William Levitt, America’s largest home builder and creator of the famous Levittowns,...
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Liberalism and the Atlantic World
Liberalism can be considered the first truly Atlantic ideology, in spite of undeniable national...
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Literary Agents
Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the...
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Littérature
Les littératures atlantiques ont été le véhicule privilégié de l'histoire culturelle du Monde...
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Los Nuevos Cines
Usamos el concepto de “nuevos cines” para abordar un proceso que va desde mediados de los años...
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Luigi Nono: Revolutionary Experiences and American Networks
During his travels in Latin America and the United States, the composer and Communist activist Luigi...
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Makossa
Born in Douala in the 1950s, and strongly influenced by Ghanaian highlife music, Congolese rumba and...
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Maracatus transatlânticos
Grupos típicos de Pernambuco, Brasil, os maracatus expressam através de música, dança e rituais,...
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Maradona: ídolo local, héroe global
Maradona es probablemente el personaje más importante de la cultura popular argentina entre finales...
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) is a major figure of Black nationalism and Pan Africanism. An...
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Mathematics education in the nineteenth century: Europe, North Africa and the Americas
An overview of the scholarly circulations of mathematics education between Europe (mainly France) and...
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Memories
Transatlantic memory and heritage evoke a permanent oscillation between universal and specific values,...
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Missions pédagogiques et circulation des idées pédagogiques dans l’espace transatlantique au...
Au XIXe siècle, les missions pédagogiques constituent l’un des vecteurs majeurs de la circulation des...
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Modernist photography in Mexico: Modotti’s Letter
Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between...
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Modernist Photography in Mexico: Networks of Migration
As active participants in the Mexican cultural renaissance, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Manuel...
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Music
Between the 18th and the 21st centuries, the musical transatlantic space has profoundly changed,...
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New Harmony : Owen et Pestalozzi aux États-Unis
La colonie de New Harmony (États-Unis) fut, dans les années 1820, le théâtre d’une expérience sociale...
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Nineteenth-Century Scientific Expeditions of the US Navy
Scientific exchanges reigned in the nineteenth century and were indispensable to the process of...
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Nueva Canción
During the 1940s and 1950s, the arts became a symbolic battlefield and ‘folklore’ was understood as a...
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O imaginário revolucionário no cinema de Santiago Álvarez Román
Santiago Álvarez Román (1919-1998) foi um cineasta cubano, diretor dos Noticieros ICAIC, cinejornal...
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Octavio Paz
If there is one Latin-American writer who embodies the fertility of intellectual and aesthetic...
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Off theater
This article traces the transatlantic movements of the idea of alternative theater from the 1940s to...
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Orson Welles, Citizen of the World
Orson Welles was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but he often told interviewers that he was “...
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Pan Americanism
The US-led Pan American Union, created in 1890, is generally understood as a form of soft power...
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Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987) nasceu em Porto Novo (Benin). Estudou no Institut des hautes études...
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Pelé and the world
From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, Pelé was the leading figure in football, a sport that...
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Performing Arts
The Performing Arts section brings together articles examining the transatlantic exchange of objects,...
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Periodizing the Atlantic
A major challenge for the Transatlantic Cultures project has been creating a historical periodization...
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Photographic agencies
Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of...
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Presse en langue étrangère
La presse en langue étrangère, publiée d'un côté comme de l'autre de l'Atlantique, a joué un rôle...
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Ray Ventura and His Collegians: from imitation to a Franco-American hybrid
In the early 1930s, Ray Ventura and His Collegians recorded in Paris covers of hit songs from...
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Ray Ventura, jazz and French chanson: an ambiguous Americanization
In the 1930s, Ray Ventura and his Collégiens established themselves as a model of French chanson,...
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Reading Across American and Ottoman Archives: Diplomacy and Photography in the Nineteenth...
Album exchanges between American and Ottoman powers (c.1880-1910) reveal a networked history of...
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Réception genevoise du Plan Dalton et de la pédagogie de Winnetka
H. Parkhurst (plan Dalton) et C. Washburne (écoles de Winnetka) sont deux pédagogues américains...
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Reimagining Todd Webb’s Photographs of 1958 Colonial Africa
This paper charts the path of Todd Webb’s 1958 U.N.-commissioned photographs of colonial Africa across...
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Robert FitzRoy
Robert FitzRoy was a British commander responsible of the HMS Beagle expedition between the decades of...
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Robinson Crusoe
In 1719, Daniel Defoe published The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The story and the...
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Romain Gary: How to Be Someone Else
The novelist Romain Gary had two connected but quite distinct literary careers, in two languages and...
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Ruy Guerra, the ‘travelling filmmaker’
Ruy Guerra (RG) was born on 22/08/1931 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), capital of the Portuguese...
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Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, marraine de l’Amérique?
C’est dans la ville lorraine de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, en France, que le mot America fut édité pour la...
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Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Ducados, known as Sarah Maldoror, is considered to be the first black woman to make cinema in...
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Solitude, du roman au musée : l’œuvre mémorielle d’André Schwarz-Bart
Figure légendaire de l’histoire antillaise et de l’univers des plantations, Solitude, l’héroïne du...
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Soupault and USA: cinema and Surrealist poetry in the Roaring Twenties
In the early 1920s, French Surrealist Philippe Soupault saw in American film a new form of modernity...
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South Atlantic
South Atlantic is approached as a space of circulation over three distinct periods. The first begins...
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Spas
In the eighteenth century, natural mineral springs spurred the emergence of tourism and played a...
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Sport
Considered from the point of view of sport during a long twentieth century, the Atlantic space shows...
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Susan Sontag: uma intelectual pública
Judia, Susan Sontag nasceu em New York, estudou literatura, filosofia e teologia em renomadas...
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The 1972 Olympics basketball final between the Soviet Union and the United States
The game marked a turning point in the sport’s history on both sides of the Atlantic. Due to...
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The American Century
In 1941, the influential publisher Henry Luce declared the century “American.” The United States’ new...
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The Book of Knowledge between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’ World: history of an encyclopedia
The Children’s Encyclopaedia, created by Arthur Mee in England, in early 20th century, became, by the...
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The Paris Opera Ballet in the Americas: Dancing Diplomacy (1948-1950)
The Atlantic area was a privileged space for the Paris Opera Ballet after the Second World War. North...
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The photo novel: a Latin genre
From 1947 to 1968, the long-scorned photo novel was one of Europe and Latin America’s most popular...
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The Rockefeller Foundation and the international funding of science (1920s-1950s)
The history of the Rockefeller Foundation’s international science policy highlights the pivotal role...
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The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammed Ali versus George Foreman (October 30, 1974)
The Muhammed Ali-George Foreman match for the world heavyweight title in Kinshasa was a “Black...
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The “Sensation” exhibition (London 1997-New York 2000): public scandals, private funding
When the “Sensation” exhibition travelled from London to New York in 1999, it seemed as though young...
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The training of Colombian engineers in the nineteenth century
Various transatlantic circulations accompanied the training of Colombian engineers after the country...
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The Transatlantic Ballad of Alan Lomax
Studying vocal performance styles during his time in Europe during the 1950s, the US ethnomusicologist...
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The Transatlantic Voyages of Chris Marker
This article studies transatlantic networks established by film director Chris Marker. Whereas it...
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Theater of the Oppressed: intercontinental trajectories
From its 1950s roots in Brazil to its proliferation around the world, the history of Theatre of the...
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Transatlantic authors in European publishing after 1945
This article on the circulation of books in the transatlantic space starts with a historically datable...
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Transatlantic Cartographies of Popular Music in the Americas
Popular music is frequently analyzed through national ‘musical genres,’ consecrated through specific...
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Transatlantic operatic networks during the nineteenth century
This article explores operatic networks in the nineteenth century, with a focus on mobility between...
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Transatlântico
Mesmo em um cenário historiográfico dominado por olhares globais, o interesse no Atlântico persiste –...
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Une géographie sociale et culturelle du baseball
La diffusion du baseball hors du pays qui l’a vu naître peut paraître assez déroutante: très faible...
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United States Information Agency
En 1953, la guerre froide pousse le président Eisenhower à créer une agence indépendante du...
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US Cultural Diplomacy
The Cold War was the heyday of state-orchestrated cultural diplomacy in the U.S., at a time when many...
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Vienna to San Francisco via Chicago: Camera Club Exchanges in the 1890s
Elitist organizations such as the Linked Ring Brotherhood and the Photo-Secession were not the only...
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Visual Arts
In the field of visual arts, the study of transatlantic exchange has seen recent growth in the...
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Was “American” Photography a European Invention?
This paper explores the dialogue between European and “American” photography from the end of the 1930s...
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When booksellers created the early photography market
Photography catalogues attest to a growing transatlantic trade between 1939 and 1961, when booksellers...
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Wifredo Lam and Transversal Surrealism
Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam was a key figure of Surrealism's transversal network in the 20th...
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William Faulkner, écrivain baroque de la Méditerranée américaine
Faulkner est au carrefour de plusieurs histoires littéraires mais est aussi l'inspirateur de nombreux...
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Wire photography and transatlantic visual culture
Beginning in the 1920s, wire photography services used a technology similar to a fax machine to send...
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Yiddish: Language, Culture and Memory from the late 19th century to the present
From the late 19th century, the Yiddish language and culture had an intensely transatlantic moment...