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La SFHOM (Société française d'Histoire d'outre-mer) a publié le commentaire suivant sur la page "liens" de son site :
ÉTUDES COLONIALES
: Un groupe de chercheurs, conduit par Daniel Lefeuvre, Marc Michel, Claire Villemagne et Michel Renard, a lancé ce site en 2006 pour recenser les membres
d'une communauté virtuelle de chercheurs en "histoire coloniale", tout
en montant aussi une revue en ligne portant le titre "Etudes
coloniales".
Bienvenue à ces confrères ! Ce site est désormais riche et foisonnant,
plein d'informations, de contributions aux débats, etc. Notre propre
association était passée de l'appellation Société française d'histoire
des colonies à celle de Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer ; on en
revient au terme de "colonial", mais selon un autre angle d'approche,
plus dans la ligne des "post-colonial studies". Ce site "Etudes
coloniales" entend aussi ne pas laisser le monopole de la communication
médiatique et numérique à un autre groupe de chercheurs très
médiatisés, autour de P. Blanchard notamment ; mais le challenge est
stimulant et fécond.
Société française d'Histoire d'outre-mer (SFHOM)
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I wonder if there is a chance of finding somebody on your staff willing and able to review my doctoral thesis written in German. It has been accepted by the Department of Social and Economic History of the University of Hamburg, was graded "magna cum laude" and has just been published. It is called
Die Société commerciale de l’Océanie (1876-1914). Aufstieg und Untergang der Hamburger Godeffroys in Ost-Polynesien.
(in English: Société Commerciale de l’Océanie (1876-1914). Rise and Fall of the Hamburg House of Godeffroy in East-Polynesia.)
The company I researched into was a joint-stock company registered in Hamburg whose center of commercial activity was located in Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands. This trading company exported local products from these islands, such as coprah, mother of pearl shells, cotton and vanilla to Europe, the US and Latin America while importing manufactured goods and food stuffs from these countries for distribution on the islands. It operated between three and five trading stations on other islands at different times for collection and distribution, and it owned schooners for transporting their goods, and for a time also plantations. It was the most important trading company in the area until the beginning of WW I, when it was expropriated by the French. From the correspondence of which a major part was handed down and deposited at the Hamburg State Archive I was not only able to reconstruct turnover figures, balance sheets and profit and loss statements for most of the years, but I also portrayed the personalities of their managers, their staff, some customers and all competitors. Critical analysis of their managers' actions and decisions are part of the study as well as a detailed picture of the social, political and economic circumstances under which the company had to operate.
If you are able to find a person to review this monograph (of 592 pages), I would be happy to send a complimentary copy.
ISBN-13: 978-3937729-20-6
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Claus Gossler