Books by Vincent Hiribarren
Plon, Terre Humaine, 2019
Media by Vincent Hiribarren
Edited Journal by Vincent Hiribarren
Articles by Vincent Hiribarren
This article discusses the potential of ‘historical bibliometric’ methodologies for understanding... more This article discusses the potential of ‘historical bibliometric’ methodologies for understanding past cultures and offers a vision for how historical bibliometric research might be conducted on a comparative and global scale. Drawing on conceptual work being undertaken at the Western Sydney University in order to further develop and extend the widely respected ‘French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe’ (FBTEE) database project, it explores how historians might proceed to correlate, map, and analyse multiple spatially referenced data sets pertaining to the creation, publication, dissemination, ownership, consumption, reception, policing, and geographic setting of texts. While the authors recognise the many dangers and limitations inherent in reducing the cultural history of text to a set of statistical data, they observe that historians frequently use the production and circulation of texts as a useful proxy for understanding the circulation of ideas. Hence historical bibliometrics can provide measurable indicators of cultural resonance. The challenge, then, is to meaningfully integrate algorithmic abstractions with qualitative-based humanities research. This paper and the suite of projects it discusses seek to provide a way forward.
The Encyclopedia of Empire, 2016
Digital Humanities publications by Vincent Hiribarren
This project digitised the archives of the nineteenth-century prime minister of Madagascar, Raini... more This project digitised the archives of the nineteenth-century prime minister of Madagascar, Rainilaiarivony. Written in Malagasy, the Prime Minister's archives use the Latin alphabet introduced in 1823. They allow researchers to understand how a precolonial kingdom managed to dominate the whole of Madagascar and how it was influenced and later colonised by the Europeans.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the island was divided into different polities before the Merina King took the title of 'King of Madagascar' in 1817 (Treaty between Great Britain and the Merina Kingdom), and his successors tried to unify and modernise the island prior to the European colonisation in 1895. The prime minister, whose position was created in 1833, was in charge of these centralising policies and can be considered as the instrument and symbol of the precolonial political modernisation of the island.
The most successful figure of Prime Minister under the royal government was the younger brother of Prime Minister Raharo, Rainilaiarivony, commander in chief, who discredited and replaced him in 1865 as the queen’s official lover and Prime Minister (1864-1895). He was the head of the government under three successive queens, Rasoherina, Ranavalona II and Ranavalona III, whom he married until his arrest after the capture of the royal capital by the French expeditionary force on 1 October 1895.
The archives have been inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register since 2009. They have never been systematically studied and will offer researchers invaluable insights into the history of precolonial Madagascar and the role played by this man who was in charge of the day-to-day government of the kingdom, but who also commanded its armies. In addition, his attempts to re-organise the government along Western lines will provide historians interested in Western imperialism with the tools to analyse the political evolution of a kingdom which was not directly colonised by the Europeans but which was simultaneously caught between British and French expansionisms. These documents will thus illustrate British abolitionist and religious policies and French territorial ambitions in the Indian Ocean. Knowing that the French heavily relied on the institutions of the kingdom of Madagascar during the colonial period, the archives of the prime ministers will shed new light on the precolonial times and the construction of the colonial state.
This project digitised the 23 registers of Rainilaiarivony (and a few photographs), creating over 6,000 images, and trained three technicians of the National Archives of Madagascar in digitisation techniques. The equipment acquired is now available for a future research and/or digitisation project.
"These maps created by Simon Burrows and Vincent Hiribarren are available in two different open f... more "These maps created by Simon Burrows and Vincent Hiribarren are available in two different open formats. The first one is widely used format by GIS software packages (shp files). The second one is a GeoJSON format used by online mapping services.
The 1st map divides late eighteenth-century Europe into geopolitical/linguistic zones. The zones represented are artificial constructs developed for analytical purposes in the The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project itself.
The 2nd map deals with sovereign territories in eighteenth Europe. The borders apply to the period 1772-1791. (Admin 0 - Eighteenth Century Countries).
The 3rd map is a reconstruction of the administratives subdivisions (provinces) of eighteenth-century European countries. The borders apply to the period 1772-1791. (Admin 1 - Eighteenth Century Provinces)."
http://fbtee.uws.edu.au/main/download-maps/
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, the island was divided into different polities before the Merina King took the title of 'King of Madagascar' in 1817 (Treaty between Great Britain and the Merina Kingdom), and his successors tried to unify and modernise the island prior to the European colonisation in 1895. The prime minister, whose position was created in 1833, was in charge of these centralising policies and can be considered as the instrument and symbol of the precolonial political modernisation of the island.
The most successful figure of Prime Minister under the royal government was the younger brother of Prime Minister Raharo, Rainilaiarivony, commander in chief, who discredited and replaced him in 1865 as the queen’s official lover and Prime Minister (1864-1895). He was the head of the government under three successive queens, Rasoherina, Ranavalona II and Ranavalona III, whom he married until his arrest after the capture of the royal capital by the French expeditionary force on 1 October 1895.
The archives have been inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register since 2009. They have never been systematically studied and will offer researchers invaluable insights into the history of precolonial Madagascar and the role played by this man who was in charge of the day-to-day government of the kingdom, but who also commanded its armies. In addition, his attempts to re-organise the government along Western lines will provide historians interested in Western imperialism with the tools to analyse the political evolution of a kingdom which was not directly colonised by the Europeans but which was simultaneously caught between British and French expansionisms. These documents will thus illustrate British abolitionist and religious policies and French territorial ambitions in the Indian Ocean. Knowing that the French heavily relied on the institutions of the kingdom of Madagascar during the colonial period, the archives of the prime ministers will shed new light on the precolonial times and the construction of the colonial state.
This project digitised the 23 registers of Rainilaiarivony (and a few photographs), creating over 6,000 images, and trained three technicians of the National Archives of Madagascar in digitisation techniques. The equipment acquired is now available for a future research and/or digitisation project.
The 1st map divides late eighteenth-century Europe into geopolitical/linguistic zones. The zones represented are artificial constructs developed for analytical purposes in the The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project itself.
The 2nd map deals with sovereign territories in eighteenth Europe. The borders apply to the period 1772-1791. (Admin 0 - Eighteenth Century Countries).
The 3rd map is a reconstruction of the administratives subdivisions (provinces) of eighteenth-century European countries. The borders apply to the period 1772-1791. (Admin 1 - Eighteenth Century Provinces)."
http://fbtee.uws.edu.au/main/download-maps/
Book Reviews by Vincent Hiribarren
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the island was divided into different polities before the Merina King took the title of 'King of Madagascar' in 1817 (Treaty between Great Britain and the Merina Kingdom), and his successors tried to unify and modernise the island prior to the European colonisation in 1895. The prime minister, whose position was created in 1833, was in charge of these centralising policies and can be considered as the instrument and symbol of the precolonial political modernisation of the island.
The most successful figure of Prime Minister under the royal government was the younger brother of Prime Minister Raharo, Rainilaiarivony, commander in chief, who discredited and replaced him in 1865 as the queen’s official lover and Prime Minister (1864-1895). He was the head of the government under three successive queens, Rasoherina, Ranavalona II and Ranavalona III, whom he married until his arrest after the capture of the royal capital by the French expeditionary force on 1 October 1895.
The archives have been inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register since 2009. They have never been systematically studied and will offer researchers invaluable insights into the history of precolonial Madagascar and the role played by this man who was in charge of the day-to-day government of the kingdom, but who also commanded its armies. In addition, his attempts to re-organise the government along Western lines will provide historians interested in Western imperialism with the tools to analyse the political evolution of a kingdom which was not directly colonised by the Europeans but which was simultaneously caught between British and French expansionisms. These documents will thus illustrate British abolitionist and religious policies and French territorial ambitions in the Indian Ocean. Knowing that the French heavily relied on the institutions of the kingdom of Madagascar during the colonial period, the archives of the prime ministers will shed new light on the precolonial times and the construction of the colonial state.
This project digitised the 23 registers of Rainilaiarivony (and a few photographs), creating over 6,000 images, and trained three technicians of the National Archives of Madagascar in digitisation techniques. The equipment acquired is now available for a future research and/or digitisation project.
The 1st map divides late eighteenth-century Europe into geopolitical/linguistic zones. The zones represented are artificial constructs developed for analytical purposes in the The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project itself.
The 2nd map deals with sovereign territories in eighteenth Europe. The borders apply to the period 1772-1791. (Admin 0 - Eighteenth Century Countries).
The 3rd map is a reconstruction of the administratives subdivisions (provinces) of eighteenth-century European countries. The borders apply to the period 1772-1791. (Admin 1 - Eighteenth Century Provinces)."
http://fbtee.uws.edu.au/main/download-maps/
Questions à Rémi Dewière, historien à l’Institut des mondes africains (IMAf) et au Centre Alexandre- Koyré (EHESS), docteur de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Il vient de publier un ouvrage intitulé Du lac Tchad à La Mecque. Le sultanat du Borno et son monde (xvie-xviie siècles) aux Éditions de la Sorbonne, dans la collection ‘Bibliothèque des pays d’Islam’.