#les annales

[mote-historie]

Xavier Gosé, Le Monde, High Life, Cover Illustration for Les Annales, Noel 1913.

Morera. Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani, Carrer Major, 31, 25007 Lleida, Spain

[novelmonger]

Tagged by @rainintheevening

I ended up picking all book characters, so I'm including their names because they might not be universally recognizable. And I have no idea if anyone else has read all of these books, so this will be interesting! ^^'

Fanny Price from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen:

Lirael from the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix:

Gavir from Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin:

Katharine from the Tales of Magic series by Edward Eager:

Tagging @sailforvalinor, @dairogo, @faeriefully, @freenarnian, @kraytwriter, and @bunnyscar if you want to do this!

[tiny-tigers]

[metacarpus]

I'm finishing Ursula Le Guin's trilogy Annals of the Western Shore (Gifts, Voices, Powers). Highly recommend. For some reason it was deemed children's literature, but the last book, Powers, is putting the main character in many many Fitz like situations (from Hobb's Royal Assassin etc). It's a very compelling and diverse read, set in a world that could remind us of ancient Rome and Greece (city states, polytheism and domestic worship, non racial slavery...with a detour by the Scottish high lands in the first book). there's a lot on gender roles. there's your typical anthropological approach. the magic is more discreet, maybe resolves less than in traditional fantasy, making it fully integrated to the story instead of a plot device. it's a magic about stories and a story about the magic of stories.

[francoiserocafort-blog]

Maxi-Annales ABC du Brevet 2020 Toutes les Matières Nathan 2020

Maxi-Annales ABC du Brevet 2020 Toutes les Matières Nathan 2020 De Collectif (auteurs) Les Annales ABC du Brevet pour réviser et préparer toutes les épreuves du Brevet 2020 Toutes les matières 3e :– MATHS– FRANÇAIS– HISTOIRE-GÉO-EMC– PHYSIQUE-CHIMIE-SVT-TECHNO– ORALRédigé par des enseignants !Maxi-Annales ABC du Brevet 2020 – Toutes les matièresConforme aux programmes du BrevetDes sujets sur…

[sakshi-shraddha]

Gry and Orrec constantly looking for corners to sit and talk in Gifts

[petermot]

In memoriam: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929-2023)

410 woorden Het lijkt of het te lang geleden is dat hij nog eens een bestseller heeft geschreven, want het is veel media blijkbaar ontgaan dat Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie op 22 november 2023 is overleden. Hij werd geboren in Les Moutiers-en-Cinglais (Calvados) op 19 juli 1929 en stierf daar. Hij is een bekend Frans historicus. Hij was gespecialiseerd in de laatste periode van de middeleeuwen en de…

[laetistardust]

A Ankh-Morpork, le Guet a de nouveau fort à faire. Deux vieillards ont été assassinés tandis que le Patricien est victime d'un empoisonnement. Pour l'équipe de police (troll, nain, louve-garou et autres non-humains), le mystère est total, le coupable insaisissable. Les différentes guildes de la ville profitent de la panique générale pour comploter... Et chose étrange, les golems se mettent soudain à se comporter d'une drôle de manière. Comme s'ils étaient vivants. Et contrôlés par un mystérieux maître... Mais le commissaire Samuel Vimaire en a vu d'autres et son équipe a fait de remarquables progrès... (Babelio)

Pieds d'Argile s'inscrit dans le cycle du Guet d'Ankh-Morpork. C'est la troisième fois que nous suivons le taciturne Samuel Vimaire et son équipe de bras cassés dans leurs efforts pour faire régner la paix - ou en tout cas, ce qui s'en rapproche le plus - dans la cité.

Avec ce nouveau tome, on sent que l'auteur connaît ses personnages et se permet d'approfondir leurs profils. Certains aspects de leurs personnalité de nuancent, d'autres se précisent, et le tout nourrit leur dynamique de groupe. C'est aussi dans ce livre qu'apparaissent de nouveaux personnages, de nouvelles créatures et, bien sûr, de nouvelles guildes. Un développement prometteur pour la suite.

La force de cette saga, c'est aussi sa capacité à utiliser l'humour et la fantasy pour poser un commentaire sur le réel. Avec Pieds d'Argile, Pratchett s'exprime sur la discrimination, l'esclavagisme, et le sexisme. Les lecteurs avertis pourront même y trouver une belle métaphore de la transidendité.

C'est évident, je ne suis pas près de me lasser des Annales du Disque-Monde, bien au contraire. Chaque nouveau tome propose des aventures rocambolesques, et c'est un plaisir de voir s'étendre l'univers de Pratchett.

Note finale : 5/5

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[leclerc-hs]

lucky (bonus!) - cl16

Pairing: charles leclerc x fem!reader Summary: in which you and your childhood best friend have sex for the first time. Warnings: BAD FRENCH! (I didn't get to check these translations so if they're wrong please correct me and I will fix!), smut, angst, cheating (oops) Word Count: 1,381 Author's Note: hi! I felt that Charles and Lucky having sex later in their friendship was the right move. I was in between making them younger, but it didn't feel right writing about teenagers having sex to me lmaoooo. I love you guys and hope that you enjoy!!! please leave feedback I love hearing from you all. xo PART 1 PART 2

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HE WINS IN Spa; He wins in Monza!

The air was filled with a mix of adrenaline, joy, and the unmistakable scent of burnt rubber from the track. The vibrant red of the Ferrari flowed under the brilliant Italian sun, reflection the passion of this moment. The crowd’s cheers echoed, creating a symphony of celebration that seemed to envelop the entire circuit.

Your heart raced with a blend of pride and excitement, knowing that your best friend had achieved something extraordinary. The victory at the Ferrari home race was more than just a win; it was a triumph that would be etched in the annals of racing history.

Turning your attention to the podium, you marveled at the sight of your best friend standing tall, a champion stood above in the midst the cheering crowd. His racing suit adorned with the iconic prancing horse; he wore the victorious smile of someone who conquered not just the track but the hearts of fans worldwide.

The tears welled up in your eyes, a testament to the shared journey and countless hours of hard work, dedication, and sacrifice that led to this moment. You were so happy for him.

The podium ceremony unfolded with the spraying of champagne, and as the golden droplets shimmered in the sunlight, you couldn’t help but feel proud as you savored the moment completely. 

“Il s’est très bien debrouillé!” He did so well! You muttered to Lorenzo who greeted you with a big hug of excitement.

“Oui! You’re needed in his driver’s room,” Lorenzo responded with a smile. “Il m’a dit plus tôt.” He told me earlier. 

You patiently waited in his driver’s room, lounging on the compact leather couch. When the door swung open at last, with his race suit unzipped at his waist, you leaped to your feet with excitement. 

You cried out, “Mon dieu, Charlie!” My God, Charlie! before leaping right into his arms, clinging onto him tightly. “Je suis tellement fiere de toi!” I am so proud of you!

He felt his heart pound rapidly as you leaped into his arms. He wanted to tell you right then and there that he was in love with you.

“Nous devons célébrer!” We must celebrate! You waited for him to place you back down on your feet, but he never did. At least not as soon as you thought he would. He just held you there, staring at you as if you were the sun.

“My Lucky,” he says. “It’s all because of you.”

It was quick. One second, he was smiling at you as he held you up against him, and the next you were pressed against the door with his lips on yours. You felt your stomach clench from the heat of the kiss.

“Est-ce que c’est bon?” Is this okay? You nodded into the kiss. Yes – yes it’s okay. 

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. In fact, it wasn’t supposed to happen at all. You both could blame it on the fact that he just won a major race or the rush of emotions from the win. But it was just love. Not that either of you would ever admit it.

His hips had you pinned to the wall, completely at his mercy, while his hands fumbled with the button of your jeans. “Puis je les enlever?” Can I take these off?

You didn’t provide a verbal response; instead, you assisted by pushing the jeans down and shimmying out of them. His fingers immediately nudging their way past your cotton panties and hooking two of them right into your center as his thumb rubbed your clit in quick circles.

“Tu es tremée,” You’re soaked. He moaned into your mouth, the vibration of his groan echoing hotly into your mouth.

You moaned back softly into his. Your moans alone were enough to send Charles into a rampage. He wanted to listen to you for eternity. It was in this moment, he thought he never wanted to hear anything else from your mouth again.

You skillfully removed his race suit from his hips before he guided you to the same compact sofa you just waited patiently on. His lips never left yours as you both fell to the couch – you now straddling him. 

You both were so frantic. So needy. The only time your mouths separated was for him to whisper the foulest things. They only fueled you to ride him harder.

You’re so fucking tight.

Just like that.

Squeezing me like you’re going to come, Lucky.

Such a good girl.

C’mon let me feel you come.

I can feel how fucking wet you are.

You both came simultaneously, heavy breaths exchanged into each other’s mouths. It was so hot.

The suddenness of it all left you breathless, caught off guard by the intensity of the moment. One second, his tongue was pushing its way into your mouth again. The next, you were pushing him away, standing up from the couch as you rushed to find your jeans and get them back on.

The reality began to sink in, a shadow over the fleeting moment. He has a girlfriend, a detail that changed the complexion of the situation. You felt sick to your stomach as the reality began to weigh down on you.

Although the term girlfriend was a bit of a stretch, you felt awful. But you didn’t regret it. You could never regret anything with Charles. He was your person. Your best friend. 

“Nous ne pouvons pas refaire ça.” We can’t do this again.

“Lucky.” His arms, once a source of comfort, now felt like constraints as he grasped you. The taste of his kiss lingered, but it was overshadowed by the bitter understanding that boundaries have been crossed.

You yearned for a different reality where his girlfriend didn’t exist, but the weight of the truth remained. Accepting, you grappled that some things were beyond your control. 

“Cha, c’est bien.” It’s okay.  With a heartfelt effort, you mustered up the biggest smile, gently cupping his face into your hands. Despite your warm gesture, his eyes reflected a sadness, a longing for something more, a desire that he couldn’t act upon. 

“Tu es mon meilleur ami.” You’re my best friend. “Nous oublierons que cela s’est produit.” We will forget that this happened.

Charles shook his head in disagreement at first, but you stopped him. You needed to shift the conversation. You were supposed to be out celebrating. “Nous devons célébrer!” We must celebrate!

You urged Charles to get dressed quickly. You needed to get out of the confines of this room.

Physically, Charles nodded with a smile, but internally, he felt nothing but pain in his heart. It’s always been you. He wanted to yell that she means nothing to him, that it’s you who means everything. 

“Allons-y,” Let’s go. You grabbed his hand, leading him out of the driver’s room to kick off your night of celebration, leaving the pressing issues behind. Pretending as if nothing changed. He was your best friend. You were his best friend. Nothing changed.

🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️

Charles found it unbearable. The attention you were attracting was driving him to the brink of madness as he sat in the booth of the club, with his girlfriend beside him.

“C’est toujours elle,” It’s always her. She leaned over into Charles ear. 

His so-called girlfriend wasn’t oblivious, like he thought. She always picked up on his gaze following you, his constant talk about you, and the fact you were consistently his top priority. Initially, she shrugged it off, given your close friendship. It only became apparent to her when she sensed that your needs started taking precedence over hers. 

She couldn’t even pretend to ignore the marks on his neck. 

“Quoi?” What? Charles finally glanced at her, breaking free from his trance on you. It only prompted laughter from her, evidence that his attention was solely fixed on you. He heard her though. He just didn’t want to acknowledge that he had been caught.

“You’re wasting my time,” his girlfriend muttered before standing up, grabbing her things to leave. “If you want her, tell her.” These were the final words she uttered to Charles before exiting the club, leaving him behind.

But little did she know that he had attempted to share his feelings for you numerous times. It just never worked out. The timing was always off. 

[fatehbaz]

imperialism and science reading list

edited: by popular demand, now with much longer list of books

Of course Katherine McKittrick and Kathryn Yusoff.

People like Achille Mbembe, Pratik Chakrabarti, Rohan Deb Roy, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, and Elizabeth Povinelli have written some “classics” and they track the history/historiography of US/European scientific institutions and their origins in extraction, plantations, race/slavery, etc.

Two articles I’d recommend as a summary/primer:

Zaheer Baber. “The Plants of Empire: Botanic Gardens, Colonial Power and Botanical Knowledge.” Journal of Contemporary Asia. May 2016.

Kathryn Yusoff. “The Inhumanities.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2020.

Then probably:

Irene Peano, Marta Macedo, and Colette Le Petitcorps. “Introduction: Viewing Plantations at the Intersection of Political Ecologies and Multiple Space-Times.” Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives. 2023.

Sharae Deckard. “Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden.” 2010. (Chornological overview of development of knowledge/institutions in relationship with race, slavery, profit as European empires encountered new lands and peoples.)

Gregg Mitman. “Forgotten Paths of Empire: Ecology, Disease, and Commerce in the Making of Liberia’s Plantation Economy.” Environmental History. 2017, (Interesting case study. US corporations were building fruit plantations in Latin America and rubber plantations in West Africa during the 1920s. Medical doctors, researchers, and academics made a strong alliance these corporations to advance their careers and solidify their institutions. By 1914, the director of Harvard’s Department of Tropical Medicine was also simultaneously the director of the Laboratories of the Hospitals of the United Fruit Company, which infamously and brutally occupied Central America. This same Harvard doctor was also a shareholder in rubber plantations, and had a close personal relationship with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which occupied West Africa.)

Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Globalizing the Routes of Breadfruit and Other Bounties.”  2008. (Case study of how British wealth and industrial development built on botany. Examines Joseph Banks; Kew Gardens; breadfruit; British fear of labor revolts; and the simultaneous colonizing of the Caribbean and the South Pacific.)

Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Satellite Planetarity and the Ends of the Earth.” 2014. (Indigenous knowledge systems; “nuclear colonialism”; US empire in the Pacific; space/satellites; the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.)

Fahim Amir. “Cloudy Swords.” e-flux Journal #115, February 2021. (”Pest control”; termites; mosquitoes; fear of malaria and other diseases during German colonization of Africa and US occupations of Panama and the wider Caribbean; origins of some US institutions and the evolution of these institutions into colonial, nationalist, and then NGO forms over twentieth century.)

Some of the earlier generalist classic books that explicitly looked at science as a weapon of empires:

Schiebinger’s Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World; Delbourgo’s and Dew’s Science and Empire in the Atlantic World; the anthology Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World; Canzares-Esquerra’s Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World.

One of the quintessential case studies of science in the service of empire is the British pursuit of quinine and the inoculation of their soldiers and colonial administrators to safeguard against malaria in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia at the height of their power. But there are so many other exemplary cases: Britain trying to domesticate and transplant breadfruit from the South Pacific to the Caribbean to feed laborers to prevent slave uprisings during the age of the Haitian Revolution. British colonial administrators smuggling knowledge of tea cultivation out of China in order to set up tea plantations in Assam. Eugenics, race science, biological essentialism, etc. in the early twentieth century. With my interests, my little corner of exposure/experience has to do mostly with conceptions of space/place; interspecies/multispecies relationships; borderlands and frontiers; Caribbean; Latin America; islands. So, a lot of these recs are focused there. But someone else would have better recs, especially depending on your interests. For example, Chakrabarti writes about history of medicine/healthcare. Paravisini-Gebert about extinction and Caribbean relationship to animals/landscape. Deb Roy focuses on insects and colonial administration in South Asia. Some scholars focus on the historiography and chronological trajectory of “modernity” or “botany” or “universities/academia,”, while some focus on Early Modern Spain or Victorian Britain or twentieth-century United States by region. With so much to cover, that’s why I’d recommend the articles above, since they’re kinda like overviews.Generally I read more from articles, essays, and anthologies, rather than full-length books.

Some other nice articles:

(On my blog, I’ve got excerpts from all of these articles/essays, if you want to search for or read them.)

Katherine McKittrick. “Dear April: The Aesthetics of Black Miscellanea.” Antipode. First published September 2021.

Katherine McKittrick. “Plantation Futures.” Small Axe. 2013.

Antonio Lafuente and Nuria Valverde. “Linnaean Botany and Spanish Imperial Biopolitics.” A chapter in: Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. 2004.

Kathleen Susan Murphy. “A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America.” 2019. And also: “The Slave Trade and Natural Science.” In: Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. 2016.

Timothy J. Yamamura. “Fictions of Science, American Orientalism, and the Alien/Asian of Percival Lowell.” 2017.

Elizabeth Bentley. “Between Extinction and Dispossession: A Rhetorical Historiography of the Last Palestinian Crocodile (1870-1935).” 2021.

Pratik Chakrabarti. “Gondwana and the Politics of Deep Past.” Past & Present 242:1. 2019.

Jonathan Saha. “Colonizing elephants: animal agency, undead capital and imperial science in British Burma.” BJHS Themes. British Society for the History of Science. 2017.

Zoe Chadwick. “Perilous plants, botanical monsters, and (reverse) imperialism in fin-de-siecle literature.” The Victorianist: BAVS Postgraduates. 2017.

Dante Furioso: “Sanitary Imperialism.” Jeremy Lee Wolin: “The Finest Immigration Station in the World.” Serubiri Moses. “A Useful Landscape.” Andrew Herscher and Ana Maria Leon. “At the Border of Decolonization.” All from e-flux.

William Voinot-Baron. “Inescapable Temporalities: Chinook Salmon and the Non-Sovereignty of Co-Management in Southwest Alaska.” 2019.

Rohan Deb Roy. “White ants, empire, and entomo-politics in South Asia.” The Historical Journal. 2 October 2019.  

Rohan Deb Roy. “Introduction: Nonhuman Empires.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35 (1). May 2015.

Lawrence H. Kessler. “Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science  and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation.” Arcadia (Spring 2017).

Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner. “Monster as Medium: Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film.” e-flux. March 2021.

Lesley Green. “The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking, and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene.” e-flux Journal Issue #65. May 2015.

Martin Mahony. “The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s ‘Great Agricultural Experiment.’“ Environment and Society Portal, Arcadia. Spring 2021. 

Anna Boswell. “Anamorphic Ecology, or the Return of the Possum.” 2018. And; “Climates of Change: A Tuatara’s-Eye View.”2020. And: “Settler Sanctuaries and the Stoat-Free State." 2017.

Katherine Arnold. “Hydnora Africana: The ‘Hieroglyphic Key’ to Plant Parasitism.” Journal of the History of Ideas - JHI Blog - Dispatches from the Archives. 21 July 2021.

Helen F. Wilson. “Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes.” Environment and Planning. July 2019.

Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson. “Silences of Grass: Retrieving the Role of Pasture Plants in the Development of New Zealand and the British Empire.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. August 2007.

Kirsten Greer. “Zoogeography and imperial defence: Tracing the contours of the Neactic region in  the temperate North Atlantic, 1838-1880s.” Geoforum Volume 65. October 2015. And: “Geopolitics and the Avian Imperial Archive: The Zoogeography of Region-Making in the Nineteenth-Century British Mediterranean.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2013,

Marco Chivalan Carrillo and Silvia Posocco. “Against Extraction in Guatemala: Multispecies Strategies in Vampiric Times.” International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. April 2020.

Laura Rademaker. “60,000 years is not forever: ‘time revolutions’ and Indigenous pasts.” Postcolonial Studies. September 2021.

Paulo Tavares. “The Geological Imperative: On the Political Ecology of the Amazon’s Deep History.” Architecture in the Anthropocene. Edited by Etienne Turpin. 2013.

Kathryn Yusoff. “Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time.” Social Text. 2019. And: “The Anthropocene and Geographies of Geopower.” Handbook on the Geographies of Power. 2018. And: “Climates of sight: Mistaken visbilities, mirages and ‘seeing beyond’ in Antarctica.” In: High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science. 2008. And:“Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene.” 2017. And: “An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanism and the Biopolitical.” 2017.

Mara Dicenta. “The Beavercene: Eradication and Settler-Colonialism in Tierra del Fuego.” Arcadia. Spring 2020.

And then here are some books:

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950 (Helen Tilley, 2011); Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Londa Schiebinger, 2004)

Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire (Kirsten A. Greer); The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge (Arndt Brendecke, 2016); Medicine and Empire, 1600-1960 (Pratik Chakrabarti, 2014)

Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895 (Paul Winther); Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Sadiah Qureshi, 2011); Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands (Andrew Stuhl)

Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (Britt Rusert, 2017); Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World (Aro Velmet, 2022); Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (Jonathan Saha)

The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa (Bernhard Gissibl, 2019); Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Edited by Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall, 2019)

Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Cameron B. Strang); The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras (Chirstopher A. Loperena, 2022); Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (Allison Bigelow, 2020); The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 (Rebecca J.H. Woods); American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (Megan Raby, 2017); Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism (Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, 2023)

Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (James Sweet, 2011); A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America (Anya Zilberstein, 2016); Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines (Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, 2019); Soundings and Crossings: Doing Science at Sea, 1800-1970 (Edited by Anderson, Rozwadowski, et al, 2016)

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania (Maile Arvin); Overcoming Niagara: Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792-1837 (Janet Dorothy Larkin, 2018); A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (Michael A. Verney, 2022); In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1960 (Alice Conklin, 2013)

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (Daniela Cleichmar, 2012); Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Arnab Dey, 2022); Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Edited by Crawford and Gabriel, 2019)

Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Hi’ilei Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, 2022); In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokkohama (Eric Tagliacozzo); Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Urmi Engineer Willoughby, 2017); Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region (Edited by Hirsch, et al, 2022); Mining the Borderlands: Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910 (Sarah E.M. Grossman, 2018)

Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland (Ruth Rogaski); Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Lenny A. Urena Valerio); Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Adam Sills, 2021)

Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History (Alan Mikhail, 2017); Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science (Jim Endersby); Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases (Edited by Edwin Martini, 2015)

Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World (Multiple authors, 2007); Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Peter Redfield); Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (Andrew Togert, 2015); Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of ‘Green’ Capitalism (Hannah Holleman, 2016); Postnormal Conservation: Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance (Katja Grotzner Neves, 2019)

Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (Anna K. Sagal, 2022); The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Harriet Ritvo); Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975 (Michitake Aso); A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Kathryn Yusoff, 2018); Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt (Jessica Barnes, 2023); No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic (Keith Pluymers); Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1768-1941 (Lynn Hollen Lees, 2017); Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia (Douglas C. Harris, 2001); Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep Time (Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy); Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (Joyce Chaplin, 2001)

American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865 (Jeremy Zallen); Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire (Erik Linstrum, 2016); Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Water (James Pettifer and Mirancda Vickers, 2021); Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity (Pratik Chakrabarti); Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (David Fedman)

Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (Julie Cruikshank); The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem (Kristin A. Wintersteen, 2021); The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (Ralph O’Connor); An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 (Benjamin Kingsbury, 2018); Geographies of City Science: Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin (Tanya O’Sullivan, 2019)

American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (John Krige, 2006); Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Ann Laura Stoler, 2002); Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire (Faisal H. Husain, 2021);

The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930 (Gilberto Hochman, 2016); The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia (James Hevia); Japan’s Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology (Annika A. Culver, 2022)

Moral Ecology of a Forest: The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation (Jose E. Martinez, 2021); Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska (Jessica Bissette Perea, 2021); Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire (Mashid Mayar); Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Andrew Zimmerman, 2001)

The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century (Multiple authors, 2016); The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World (Katherine Johnston, 2022); Seeking the American Tropics: South Florida’s Early Naturalists (James A. Kushlan, 2020); The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth (Perrin Selcer, 2018)

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam (Laurence Monnais); Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands (Linda J. Seligmann, 2023) ; Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world (Edited by Kathryn Gillespie and Rosemary-Claire Collard, 2017); Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon (Heather Ann Swanson, 2022); Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 (Mark Bassin, 2000); The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century (Erin Drew, 2022)

Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures (Anita Mannur, 2022); On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, 1830-1890 (Philip Gooding, 2022); All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation Through Species Acclimitization, from Colonial Australia to the World (Pete Minard, 2019)

Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851 (Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart); Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Setller Colonialism (Jarrod Hore, 2022); Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (Meng Zhang, 2021); The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration (David A. Chang);

Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal (Christine Keiner); Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (Mauro Jose Caraccioli); Two Years below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946 (Andrew Taylor, 2017); Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (Mark W. Hauser, 2021)

To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire (Jason Smith, 2018); Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (Ian Matthew Miller, 2020); Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950 (Sandra Swart and Greg Bankoff, 2007)

Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya (Lachlan Fleetwood, 2022); Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i (John Ryan Fisher, 2017); Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (Timothy P. Barnard, 2019)

An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation (Micha Rahder, 2020); Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Debjani Bhattacharyya, 2018);  Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 (Kristen Hussey, 2021)

Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (Jeannie N. Shinozuka); Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity (Ann Elias, 2019); Hunting Africa: British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire (Angela Thompsell, 2015)

[finelythreadedsky]

reading the aeneid through ursula k le guin's lavinia-- check. reading plautus through ursula k le guin's annals of the western shore-- check. reading the iliad through ursula k le guin's the dispossessed-- check. what insight into classical literature will she enable next.

[orpheusmori]

Saint-Just Resources

A culmination of the many articles and other resources I use in my own research as someone studying to be a historian on the revolution. Will be added to as I progress in my research; please let me know if any links don't work!

Historians on Saint-Just:

Biography from Association pour la sauvegarde de la Maison de Saint-Just

Histoire de Saint-Just député à la Convention nationale (Hamel, 1860)

Lenôtre on SJ's 1791-early 1792 life in rural France

Saint-Just (Cioti, 1991)

Saint-Just: Sohn, Denker und Protagonist der Revolution (Monar, 1993)

Saint-Just (Gignoux, 1947)

Saint-Just en mission la naissance d'un myth (J.P. Gross, 1967)

Saint-Just et les femmes (Quennedey, 2016)

Saint-Just: Apostle of the Terror by Geoffrey Bruun (my personal favorite English SJ bio)

The Man of Virtue: The Role of Antiquity in the Political Trajectory of L.A. Saint-Just (Linton, 2010)

Saint-Just: The French Revolution's "Angel of Death" (Linton, 2015)

Three Letters of Saint-Just (Bruun, 1934)

Saint-Just in modern Annales historiography (Vinot, Linton, Quennedey, etc., 2017)

Saint-Just : Une Constitution pour la République (on his role in the drafting of the 1793 Constitution) (Crucifix and Quennedey, 2018)

Saint-Just's Pre-Convention Life:

Monograph on the Château de Coucy (written in the 1780s as a school assignment) - see this blog post by Anne Quennedey for more info.

Arlequin-Diogene (SJ's play) -> I did an English translation

L’esprit de la révolution et de la constitution de la France (1791)

Convention Speeches:

All Convention Speeches Summarized (Anne Quennedey, 2020)

First Speech: 13 November 1792 on the debate of putting the King to trial.

19 vendémiaire an II (10 October 1793)

Ventôse Decrees Proposal Convention Speech (my complete English translation)

9 Thermidor an II (28 July 1794) Speech/Draft

My full English translation

"Praise the Victories and Forget Ourselves" Excerpt

"Tarpeian Rock" Analogy from 9 Thermidor Speech draft

Miscellaneous:

Why I study SJ

My Thoughts on SJ's Thoughts on the Terror

SJ's Last Paris Apartment ( w/ @/ vieillesmaisons)

SJ's various lodgings in Paris

Speech to Army of the Rhine excerpt

Alsace Mission Map

Saint-Just on Marat

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

A Porsche 904 Story"

In the heart of Stuttgart, where the air was thick with the scent of gasoline and the sound of engines echoed through the streets like a symphony, there stood a factory unlike any other. It was the home of Porsche, a legendary marque known for its relentless pursuit of speed and innovation. And within the hallowed halls of this factory, there was a car that would come to define an era – the Porsche 904 Carrera GTS.

The 904 was a marvel of engineering, a sleek and aerodynamic masterpiece designed to conquer both the racetrack and the open road. Its low-slung profile and sweeping curves exuded an air of aggression and elegance, while its lightweight construction and powerful engine promised blistering performance.

But it wasn't just the 904's beauty that captured the hearts of enthusiasts around the world; it was its racing pedigree and storied history that truly set it apart. With victories at iconic races like the Targa Florio and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 904 cemented its place in the annals of motorsport history, becoming a symbol of Porsche's dominance on the track.

One man who understood the true spirit of the 904 was Markus, a seasoned racer with a passion for speed and a hunger for victory. From the moment he laid eyes on the car, he knew that he had to have one of his own – not just as a trophy to be admired, but as a weapon to be wielded on the racetrack.

With unwavering determination, Markus set out to acquire a 904 of his own, scouring the globe for the perfect specimen. When he finally found one, he spared no expense in restoring it to its former glory, pouring his heart and soul into every nut and bolt until it gleamed like a diamond in the sun.

But for Markus, the true beauty of the 904 lay not just in its appearance, but in the way it performed on the track. With him behind the wheel, the car came alive, its engine roaring to life with a ferocious growl as it tore down the straights and carved through the corners with surgical precision.

As Markus crossed the finish line, the checkered flag waving triumphantly in the air, he couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and satisfaction. For in the beauty of his Porsche 904, he had found not just a car, but a companion – a symbol of speed, power, and the unyielding pursuit of excellence.

[empirearchives]

Napoleon and Mary, Queen of Scots

Okay @isthenapoleoncute I don’t think this is exactly what you are looking for. But there is an artist, Jean-Baptiste Vermay, who made a painting in 1808 about the death of Mary, Queen of Scots. Title: Marie Stuart, reine d'Écosse, recevant sa sentence de mort que vient de ratifier le Parlement.

Napoleon was Vermay’s patron. He granted Vermay an award for the painting, and he and Josephine requested a replica of it.

Here is some info about the painting published in 1808: Annales du musée et de l'école moderne des beaux-arts: Salon de 1808, par Charles-Paul Landon. There are some really interesting parts. It talks about the long exile and injustice at the hands of the English queen. Also important to note that Mary was apparently Queen of France by marriage (according to this. Idk much about this part of history). So there is a French connection as well; an English ruler exiling a French ruler.

My (loose) translation:

The artful Elizabeth, Queen of England, held Mary Stuart prisoner for eighteen years. Her cruel policy demanded the sacrifice of this illustrious victim; she had Mary, her equal, judged as if she had been her subject. Forty-two members of parliament and five judges of the kingdom went to question her in her prison. She was sentenced to death: parliament confirmed the sentence and requested its execution. Elizabeth signed the fatal order, and the earls of Kent and Schrewbury, responsible for having it executed, accomplished it with a barbarity worthy of their ministry. Mary Stuart received her sentence with tranquility, and even with joy. A long captivity, violent sorrows, early infirmities made her regard death as the end of her sufferings. In her last days, she added to the exercises of courageous piety the most tender care for the people attached to her service; after having written on their behalf to Henry III and the Duke of Guise, she asked that they be witnesses to her torture. “Remember,” she said to Kent, who stubbornly refused her, “remember that I am a cousin of your queen, that I am of the royal blood of Henry III, that I was Queen of France by marriage, that I was crowned Queen of Scotland.”

Inhumanly deprived of all religious assistance, obliged to listen to the exhortations of a fanatic who threatened her with eternal damnation if she did not abjure the Roman faith, she opposed the outrages with dignity and gentleness, and preserved until the last moment a heroic firmness. She was beheaded in a room at Fotheringay Castle on February 7, 1588, at the age of 45.

This first work by a very young artist received the most favorable reception from the public. We noticed with what skill the author had arranged his scene and captured the character specific to each of the characters. The noble and calm attitude of Mary Stuart, the expression of her features, where both pride and righteous indignation are depicted, are perfectly consistent with the known sentiments of this unfortunate queen.

The hopes given by this painting, well thought out and wisely directed throughout its composition, are all the better founded as its execution announces a brush still little practiced.

His Majesty the Emperor awarded a medal to Mr. Vermay.

The painting of Mary Stuart was barely exhibited at the Salon when it ceased to belong to the author. A person of the highest rank even wanted to have a second one similar in every way to this one. It is an easel painting whose figures are approximately two feet in proportion.

[ronnnyroxx]

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Here is the audio translation..💀

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The operador: FOUR ANNALS💀💥

Tim: *moans*

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Vous allez automatiquement vivre l'une où l'autre situation suivante pour 2025 qui est enfin arrivé !

1. Être au bout du rouleau : Situation très peu confortable, surtout quand on est aux toilettes.

2. Meta : Le seul endroit où tu parles à un mur sans être ridicule.

3. GPS : Seule femme que les hommes écoutent pour trouver leur chemin.

4. Autobus : Véhicule qui roule deux fois plus vite quand on court après que quand on est assis dedans.

5. Taser : Instrument utilisé afin de mieux faire passer le courant entre la police et la jeunesse.

6. Mozart : Célèbre compositeur que l'on écoute le plus souvent dans les pizzerias car on sent bien que mozzarella.

7. Sudoku : Qui a le nord en face.

8. Porte-clefs : Invention très pratique qui permet de perdre toutes ses clefs d'un coup au lieu de les perdre une par une.

9. État : Système mafieux le mieux organisé de tous les temps.

10. Cravate : Accessoire servant à indiquer la direction du cerveau de l'homme.

11. Voiture : Invention ingénieuse, permettant de contenir 110 chevaux dans le moteur et un âne au volant.

12. Orteil : Appendice servant à détecter les coins de portes.

13. Égalité des sexes : Nouveau concept créé par les hommes pour ne plus payer le restaurant.

14. Monter un meuble Ikea : Expression moderne signifiant “passer un week-end de merde”.

15. Suppositoire : Invention qui restera dans les annales.

16. Les ex : C'est comme la prison, si tu y retournes c'est que tu n'as pas compris la leçon.

17. La beauté intérieure : Concept inventé par les moches pour pouvoir se reproduire.

18. Pruneau : Synonyme de personne âgée. Qui est ridé et qui fait chier.

19. Aides internationales : Aides payées par les pauvres des pays riches pour aider les riches des pays pauvres.

20. Pharmacie : Confiserie pour vieux.

21. Blonde : Concept pour faire croire que les autres femmes sont intelligentes.

22. Un meurtre de sang froid : Un ice crime

23. Archipel : Outil pour creuser des archi trous.

24. Cellulite : Couche graisseuse qui enveloppe souvent les femmes mais emballe rarement les hommes.

25. Les ciseaux à bois : Les chiens aussi.

26. Femme : C'est comme le café, au début ça excite mais rapidement ça énerve.

27. Carte de crédit : Viagra féminin.

28. Masochisme : Concept proche de la politesse : frapper avant d'entrer.

29. L'amour : C'est comme un jeu de cartes, si tu n'as pas un bon partenaire, il vaut mieux avoir une bonne main.

30. Femme facile : Femme ayant les mêmes besoins sexuels qu'un homme.

31. Homme riche : Celui qui gagne plus d'argent que ce que sa femme n'en dépense.

32. Grand amour : Expression datant du 15ème siècle, lorsque l'espérance de vie était de 35 ans.

De tout coeur avec toi