1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910629399903321

Autore

Lelièvre Guillaume

Titolo

La préhistoire de la Compagnie des Indes orientales, 1601-1622 : Les Français dans la course aux épices / / Guillaume Lelièvre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Caen, : Presses universitaires de Caen, 2022

ISBN

2-38185-094-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Collana

Quæstiones

Altri autori (Persone)

Lespagnol† André

Soggetti

History

épices

voyage

XVIIe siècle

Asie du Sud-Est

Henri IV

Beaulieu Augustin de

Martin François

Pyrard François

compagnies de commerce et de navigation

navires de commerce

industrie et commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

À la fin du XVIe siècle et au début du XVIIe, les Anglais et les Néerlandais se lancent à l’assaut de l’empire établi depuis un siècle dans l’océan Indien par les Portugais, qui contrôlaient le lucratif commerce des Indes orientales, notamment celui des épices. On considère souvent que les Français n’ont rien entrepris dans ce domaine avant 1664, lorsque Colbert fonda la célèbre Compagnie française des Indes orientales, qui est la seule retenue par l’histoire. Au contraire, cet ouvrage, qui souhaite s’adresser à la fois à des chercheurs et à un public élargi de non-spécialistes, démontre que les Français ont eux aussi pris part à cette « course aux épices » dans le



premier quart du XVIIe siècle. La confrontation de différentes sources françaises, anglaises et néerlandaises (récits de voyages dignes de romans d’aventures, documents manuscrits contemporains, archives…) permet de faire revivre ces événements presque oubliés de l’histoire maritime française. Sont ainsi relatées quatre expéditions entreprises entre 1601 et 1622, ainsi que la fondation d’une première compagnie par Henri IV dès 1604. Ces tentatives constituent ainsi véritablement la préhistoire de la Compagnie des Indes orientales.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784919103321

Autore

Garber Marjorie B

Titolo

Academic instincts [[electronic resource] /] / Marjorie Garber ; [illustrated by Sir John Tenniell]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-4008-1426-X

1-282-66564-2

9786612665646

1-4008-2467-2

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TennielJohn <1820-1914>

Disciplina

001.3/071/1

Soggetti

Humanities - Study and teaching (Higher)

Literature - Study and teaching (Higher)

Universities and colleges - Curricula

Academic writing

Humanities - Philosophy

Learning and scholarship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Amateur Professional and the Professional Amateur -- 2. Discipline Envy -- 3. Terms of Art -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-



dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality. Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why today's teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths. It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines.