Rivalités impériales et neutralité au XVIIe siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de Saint-Christophe

"No Peace Beyond the Line": this traditional expression characterizes the historiography of intercolonial relations in the early modern Caribbean. This historiography insists on the legal geography of the European treaties as a constituent factor of imperial rivalries in the Caribbean, emb...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b88d5174e0954821aafd443066409c522021-12-02T10:29:06ZRivalités impériales et neutralité au XVIIe siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de Saint-Christophe1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.72112https://doaj.org/article/b88d5174e0954821aafd443066409c522018-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/72112https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252"No Peace Beyond the Line": this traditional expression characterizes the historiography of intercolonial relations in the early modern Caribbean. This historiography insists on the legal geography of the European treaties as a constituent factor of imperial rivalries in the Caribbean, embodied by the romantic figure of the privateer. This legal geography would have perpetuated situations of unregulated wars in America, which the colonial actors would have embraced as their own conflicts. This article proposes a new look on this historiography of intercolonial relations and a reflection on the consequences of the imperial wars on empires in the 17th century. Through the study of the treaties of neutrality in St. Christopher (an island shared between two French and English settlements between 1627 and 1713), my point is to show what means the colonial actors implemented to avoid conflicts imposed by European metropolises.David ChaunuCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticleimperial rivalriesdiplomacyfrench empirebritish empiresettlement company17th centuryAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2018)
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FR
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topic imperial rivalries
diplomacy
french empire
british empire
settlement company
17th century
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle imperial rivalries
diplomacy
french empire
british empire
settlement company
17th century
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
David Chaunu
Rivalités impériales et neutralité au XVIIe siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de Saint-Christophe
description "No Peace Beyond the Line": this traditional expression characterizes the historiography of intercolonial relations in the early modern Caribbean. This historiography insists on the legal geography of the European treaties as a constituent factor of imperial rivalries in the Caribbean, embodied by the romantic figure of the privateer. This legal geography would have perpetuated situations of unregulated wars in America, which the colonial actors would have embraced as their own conflicts. This article proposes a new look on this historiography of intercolonial relations and a reflection on the consequences of the imperial wars on empires in the 17th century. Through the study of the treaties of neutrality in St. Christopher (an island shared between two French and English settlements between 1627 and 1713), my point is to show what means the colonial actors implemented to avoid conflicts imposed by European metropolises.
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author David Chaunu
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title Rivalités impériales et neutralité au XVIIe siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de Saint-Christophe
title_short Rivalités impériales et neutralité au XVIIe siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de Saint-Christophe
title_full Rivalités impériales et neutralité au XVIIe siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de Saint-Christophe
title_fullStr Rivalités impériales et neutralité au XVIIe siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de Saint-Christophe
title_full_unstemmed Rivalités impériales et neutralité au XVIIe siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de Saint-Christophe
title_sort rivalités impériales et neutralité au xviie siècle : la diplomatie par le bas des colons de saint-christophe
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2018
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