Éric SCHNAKENBOURG

Éric Schnakenbourg is Professor of Modern History at the University of Nantes and director of the Centre de recherche en histoire internationale et atlantique (CRHIA). His research focuses on international relations in Europe and the Atlantic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the history of neutrality over the longue durée; the culture of war and peace; and the history of the North and its perception and representations in early modern France. He has notably published La France, le Nord et l’Europe au début du xviiie siècle (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008), La Scandinavie à l’époque moderne (fin xve-début xixe siècle) (Paris: Belin, 2010), and Entre la guerre et la paix. Neutralité et relations internationales, xviie-xviiie siècles (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013).

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Colonial demarcation lines between Castille/Spain and Portugal in the 15th and 16th Centuries.
Fort Christiansborg, the primary Danish slave trade port on the Gold Coast. Source : Wikimedia Commons
Gerard ter Borch, The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648.
James Gillray, The Reception of the Diplomatique and his Suite, at the Court of Pekin, September 14, 1792. The ambassador of Great Britain, George Macartney, refused to bow before the Emperor Qianlong.

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