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L’orientalisme hispano-américain
L’orientalisme hispano-américain est une dimension de la production littéraire hispanique depuis 1810. Il est tributaire, mais aussi autonome du large corpus orientaliste européen des XIXe et XXe siècles. Dans cette production, l’Orient intègre l’Afrique musulmane, le Proche et le Moyen Orient, l’Inde et l’Asie de l’Est.
Spas
In the eighteenth century, natural mineral springs spurred the emergence of tourism and played a strategic role on both sides of the Atlantic. Practices, travelers and development models circulated and changed depending on the place. Medical advances caused trajectories to diverge in the twentieth century.
Aimé Bonpland
Le parcours d’Aimé Bonpland met en relief les interactions et les attractions scientifiques, politiques et culturelles entre la France et l’Amérique du Sud. Explorateur de l’Amérique latine avec Alexander von Humboldt puis patriote et partisan des indépendances latinoaméricaines, son expérience témoigne de l’émergence du latino-américanisme.
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 music.
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 éclairé le goût d'une géographie signifiante qui relevait surtout de l’exploration. Elles ont pour tâche de subventionner les voyages, d’aider tout type d’explorateurs et de décerner prix et médailles.
Robert FitzRoy
Robert FitzRoy was a British commander responsible of the HMS Beagle expedition between the decades of the 1820s and 1830s. His travel journal, published in 1839, compared the Iberian catholic colonisation of South America, and the expansion projects of the British Empire.
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 Atlantic world in the 19th century and how they react to the profound historical changes of the time.
Immigrants in New York: Cinematographic Representations (1898-1914)
Statue of Liberty, a small film of approximately fifty seconds produced by the Thomas Edison Company, can be considered one of the first cinematographic representations of the arrival of a transatlantic ship in New York.
Nineteenth-Century Scientific Expeditions of the US Navy
Scientific exchanges reigned in the nineteenth century and were indispensable to the process of globalization and in the reduction of different orders of distance. The US Navy journeys were part of this enterprise.