Enfin, mon projet de recherche actuel porte sur un ensemble de réflexions et de projets visant à repenser les espaces coloniaux de la France et de l’Espagne dans les Caraïbes au début du XIXe siècle dans un contexte de crise et de désintégration qui leur était commun.

J’y analyse les débats et les transformations provoqués par ces exils concernant le statut de « sujet » impérial espagnol et des droits accordés (ou refusés) aux exilés, qu’ils soient nationaux ou étrangers.

Une seconde monographie, en cours de préparation (révision), porte sur l’ouest de Cuba comme terre d’accueil de milliers d‘exilés français de Saint-Domingue (Haïti) et espagnols de Santo Domingo (République Dominicaine) entre les années 1790 et 1820.

Mon premier ouvrage, Conditional Freedom (2022), issu de ma thèse soutenue aux Pays-Bas, explore les trajectoires d’esclaves fugitifs du sud des États-Unis qui cherchèrent refuge au Mexique au XIXᵉ siècle.

Mes recherches portent principalement sur les migrations d’exil et les expériences d’asile – ou de refus d’asile – dans la région, avec les multiples contestations de l’institution esclavagiste en toile de fond.

Pour les nouveaux abonnés et comme j’ai changé de poste (Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland). Je suis historien des Caraïbes et de l’Amérique du Nord à la charnière des XVIIIᵉ et XIXᵉ siècles, postdoctorant à l'@ehess.fr – UMR @mondesamericains.ehess.fr – via une bourse européenne Marie S. Curie.

Avis aux américanistes! La revue @nuevomundo.ehess.fr est en quête d'articles pour sa section "Guide de la recherche américaniste", en particulier concernant le Pérou:
journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/1...
Et la Caraïbe:
journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/1...
@nuevomundo.ehess.fr

New #book #review!
@thomasmareite.bsky.social reviewed *A Southern #Underground #Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country,* by Paul M. Pressly:

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"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. (...) Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

📢 New publication! Out now online and in print: "'Sterile in Spanish Hands': French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution", by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, French Historical Studies 48, no. 1 (2025): 37-64. @sfhs.bsky.social

👉 Here's a link to the online version: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

(...) as a frequent backdrop. Many of these projects aimed to establish new colonies in the Caribbean, replicating the once prosperous economic model of Saint-Domingue. They envisioned these new colonies as bases for re-establishing French influence in the Caribbean and/or the reconquest of Haiti.

(...) It examines efforts to revitalize the French imperial presence in the Caribbean in the context of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Imperial officials & former colonists proposed ambitious plans for new French imperial projections in the Caribbean, with the Spanish colony of Cuba (...)

(...) in the Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer. Entitled “Quelques idées sur l'isle espagnole de Cuba”, this document relates a mission of around a year to Santiago de Cuba, at the end of which Lambert suggested the acquisition of all or part of this Spanish colony. (...)

This weekend I received from @sfhs.bsky.social a copy of my contribution to the latest issue of French Historical Studies. This article is based on the discovery of a memoir written in 1807 by Alexandre-Joseph Lambert, colonial sub-inspector in Guadeloupe, preserved (...)

Autour de l'histoire du lien national et du droit du sol aujourd'hui menacé @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

I had the joy of being a guest on Wendy Aris' impressive podcast project "Dis a fi mi History" on the history of the Caribbean recently. We are talking about refugees from the Haitian Revolution in Jamaica, and the relevance of this history for Jamaicans today. You can listen to my ramblings here 👇

Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled.

For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️

Oh look what has arrived today! Thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social and everyone involved in getting this out! Worlds of the ring is a rich cultural history that explores the circus from a transnational angle

Please share and maybe request for your library! Happy that my book “Worlds of the Ring: Nation and Empire in the British and German Circus” will be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social later this month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175090/