Sublime

On Europe’s Inner Asian frontier, demographic expansion long seemed as hobbled as it was in mainland North America until the 1750s.

If colonialism constituted the first phase of contemporary African history, and the era of decolonization and the Cold War the second, modern Africa is now in its third phase. There has been some European, American, and, increasingly, Chinese investment in infrastructure and minerals. And there is periodic terrorism. But again, the continent is mor

on the former territory no white laborers can be found, for they would be afraid of assimilating themselves to the negroes; on the latter no one is idle, for the white population extends its activity and its intelligence to every kind of employment.

La perte par l’Occident de son « monopole de l’Histoire » (sa capacité à assurer l’emprise décisive sur l’évolution de la planète), face à l’ascension de nouveaux pôles d’excellence (global stakeholders), initialement identifiés, en 2001, par le think-tank de Goldman Sachs, sous l’acronyme BRIC (Brésil, Russie, Inde et Chine), transformé par la sui

européennes sur les décombres de l’Empire romain. Les migrations sont en fait un phénomène ininterrompu, soit qu’un peuple en chasse un autre, soit qu’un peuple nomade se lance à la conquête de sociétés sédentaires, soit que des populations pauvres ou opprimées partent en quête de terres sinon promises, du moins prometteuses.

More mountainous or intractable lands – the acidic hills of Wales, the Pennines, the Highlands; the heavy clays and dry chalklands; the East Anglian Fens and seasonally flooded Vale of York; the peat hags of the west and north – were not so densely inhabited. These less centralized landscapes were harder and less rewarding to explore and exploit. S

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