Alessandro Stanziani is a research director at the l'EHESS and the CNRS, and is the author of Les Entrelacements du monde. Histoire globale, pensée globale (CNRS Éditions, 2018).
A book about the oppressed workers and labourers Joseph Conrad lived alongside: serfs in Russia, workers and sailors in the French and British empires, slaves and migrants in the Indian Ocean... that ends in Congo with the extreme violence perpetrated against the indigenous people by colonial companies in their relentless search for profit.
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Une histoire globale XVIIIe-XIXe siècles
Alessandro Stanziani