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Pour analyser la guerre d'Indochine, à la fois réputée « trop chère » et pervertie par le trafic des piastres, Hugues Tertrais a privilégié le point de vue financier. Il ouvre ainsi une fenêtre à la fois nécessaire et originale qui éclaire différemment le conflit et permet d'en repenser le déroulement. Car si l'argent est le « nerf de la guerre », l'occasion des profits indirects. En s'appuyant sur les archives économiques et financières, l'auteur montre comment le conflit, au départ de nature coloniale, a été rattrapé par son coût. En effet, à défaut de pousser à la négociation avec l'adversaire, dans un contexte marqué par les fortes tensions de la guerre froide, les contraintes financières plaidaient pour un montage combinant les États associés et l'aide américaine, et un désengagement progressif. Le financement de la guerre d'Indochine a donc été un élément déterminant de son évolution. L'évaluation du coût de la guerre conduit ainsi à une évaluation de la guerre elle-même, à travers la nature de ses dépenses, les modalités de leur financement et la gestion des flux financiers qui en découlent, dans laquelle le ministère des Finances joue un rôle croissant : un an avant Dien Bien Phu, la dévaluation de la piastre indiquera le sens que la France donne à ses ultimes ambitions en Asie. La guerre d'Indochine est alors « à vendre » et les Etats-Unis apparaissent comme le seul acquéreur possible. La suite n'est certes alors pas encore écrite mais on sait que si la France - pertes et profits confondus - sortira de l'aventure sans trop de dommages, il n'en sera pas de même des pays d'Indochine, certes indépendants mais balkanisés et dans une paix plus que provisoire.

History of Asia --- History of France --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- Indochine --- Indochinese War, 1946-1954 --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Southeast Asia --- Economic aspects --- Indochina War, 1946-1954 --- guerre coloniale --- guerre d’Indochine --- piastre

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"Focusing on the ways written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of an "epistolary revolution" in sixteenth-century Korea and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing practices empowered cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women using vernacular Korean script, who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. The physical peculiarities of new letter forms such as spiral letters, the cooptation of letters for purposes other than communication, and the rise of diverse political epistolary genres combined to form a revolution in letter writing that challenged traditional values and institutions. New modes of reading and writing that were developed in letter writing precipitated changes in scholarly methodology, social interactions, and political mobilization. Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies"--

HISTORY / Asia / Korea --- Letter writing, Korean. --- Korean letters. --- Calligraphy, Korean --- Letter writing, Korean --- Korean letters --- Choson dynasty. --- History --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Korean letter writing --- Korean calligraphy --- Korean literature --- History of Asia

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Minority and community are concepts dominating the analysis of Christians in the Arab world which lead to conceive of the societies of the South-East of the Mediterranean as mosaics. According to this commonplace, religious and ethnic groups live side by side with limited interactions and immutable identities with a strong potential for conflict. But are denominational identities inherently conflicting? And are Christians in the Arab world really a sociological minority? In the long term, what are the modalities of their exchanges and transactions, of their cooperation and communication with Muslims? What historical bodies and dynamics regulate these interactions and modify the rules of the game? In Madaba, a high Christian place in Jordan, the only mosaics worthy of interest are from the Byzantine period. For more than a century, the agglomeration is the framework, open to the world, of this social, religious and political history of Christian Arab families. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches and materials, this work questions the nature and maintenance of the social bond between Christians and Muslims, and the modifications of identity boundaries between confessional groups (Christians of various persuasions) or religious. No static mosaic, but episodes of a moving fresco where the community is not necessarily the enemy of the city.

Christians --- History --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Near east history - Jordan - Christian minorities - 19th-20th centuries. --- History of Asia --- Christian church history --- anno 1800-1999 --- Jordan --- Religious adherents --- Christians - Jordan - Madaba - History - 19th century --- Christians - Jordan - Madaba - History - 20th century --- État hachémite --- Jordanie --- tribus chrétiennes (Jordanie) --- Madaba --- bédouins --- Chrétiens --- Ma'daba (Jordanie) --- 19e siècle --- 20e siècle

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In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Traumatic upheavals-war, economic collapse, famine-transformed local society and brought new groups to positions of power and authority in Central Asia, just as the new revolutionary state began to create new institutions that redefined the nature of power in the region. This was also a time of hope and ambition in which local actors seized upon the opportunity presented by the revolution to reshape their society. As the intertwined passions of nation and revolution reconfigured the imaginations of Central Asia's intellectuals, the region was remade into national republics, of which Uzbekistan was of central importance. Making use of archival sources from Uzbekistan and Russia as well as the Uzbek- and Tajik-language press and belles lettres of the period, Khalid provides the first coherent account of the political history of the 1920s in Uzbekistan. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. The energies unleashed by the revolution also made possible the golden age of modern culture, as authors experimented with new literary forms and the modern Uzbek language took shape. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution.

Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Russia & Former Soviet Republics --- Uzbekistan --- Asia, Central --- History --- History. --- Political Science & Political History. --- Uzbekistan, USSR, imperial rule, colonialism, mass media, nationalism, state building. --- HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia. --- Modernisierung. --- Nationalbewusstsein. --- Nationenbildung. --- Sowjetisierung. --- Revolution (Asia, Central : 1917-1921). --- 1917-1991. --- Asia, Central. --- Usbekistan. --- Uzbekistan. --- History of Asia --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Russia

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Water resources development --- Water-supply --- Government policy. --- Government policy --- Israel --- History of Asia --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- Jerusalem --- Business & Economics --- Agricultural Economics --- hydrohistoire --- Jérusalem