On-line 16 May 2022 - Deadline for participation (abstracts) 15 06 2022
(Calenda announcement 988053)
The aim of the colloquium is to bring together the history of empires, environmental history and the history of capitalism, with the ambition of including in the economic history of empires the contributions of two fields of research that have been particularly dynamic in recent years: the new history of capitalism on the one hand and environmental history on the other. Its objective would be to analyze how imperial expansion led to, and was led by, processes of economic valorization of natural elements located outside the metropolis (forests, land, minerals, cereals, livestock, etc.). Its ambition would thus be to reinterrogate imperial history in the light of the extension of the "capital process" to the environments and societies that the great imperial powers formally directed or informally influenced.