Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande

Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande is a French historian, born on 1 June 1933 in Fort-de-France, Martinique. A former lecturer at the University of the West Indies and Guyana, of which he was president from 1972 to 1977, he is the current president of the Guadeloupe Historical Society.

Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande
Born	1 June 1933 Fort-de-France
Nationality	French
Occupation	President of the Société d'histoire de la Guadeloupe
Academic background
Education	Sorbonne

Biography

Childhood and education

Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande was born in Fort-de-France and is of Guadeloupean and Martiniquean origin.^[1] After completing part of his studies in Martinique, he studied at the Sorbonne, where he became interested in the history of colonisation under the direction of Charles-André Julien and in the history of the labour movement under the direction of Jean Bruhat. In particular, he took a postgraduate diploma (diplôme d'études supérieures) on the birth of the Martinique workers' movement under the direction of Charles-André Julien and Jean Bruhat.^[2] At the same time, he was active in the Martinique Students' Association.^{[citation needed]}

Academic career

He was admitted to the agrégation d'histoire in 1962. In 1964, he was the first director of the Centre d'enseignement supérieur littéraire de Pointe-à-Pitre, a forerunner of the University of the French Antilles.^[3] In 1972, he became the first president of the Centre Universitaire Antilles-Guyane until 1977.^[4]

He taught courses in contemporary history, but also in ancient history, particularly in the context of preparation for teaching examinations.^{[citation needed]}

He was an important leader of the Société d'histoire de la Guadeloupe and Martinique and one of the founders of the Association of Caribbean Historians in 1969.^[5][6]

In October 2000, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the West Indies.^[7]

Study

Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande has worked to popularise the history of Guadeloupe during the revolutionary period^[8] and the origins of the West Indian workers' movement. The publication of the Historial antillais, of which he edited volumes 3 and 4, gave fresh impetus in French-language West Indian historical studies.^[9] Furthermore, his work as a founder and leader of learned societies also played a key role in the development of Caribbean historical studies.^[10]

Publications

Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande's work includes numerous articles, published mainly in the Bulletin of the Société d'histoire de la Guadeloupe, the Revue du CERC and the Cahiers du Cerag, and papers, mainly at the congresses of the Association des historiens de la Caraïbe.^[11]

•    Les origines du mouvement ouvrier en Martinique, 1870-1900, DES, June 1958, Université de la Sorbonne, ed. Pointe-à-Pitre: Cahiers du CERAG, roneo, No. 26, 1972; reissue Paris: Karthala, 2000, 236 p.
•    Les Antilles françaises, XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles (supplément à l'Histoire 4e), Paris-Montréal: Bordas, 1971, 31 p.
•    Les Antilles françaises, fin XVIIIe, XIXe, XXe siècles (supplement to Histoire 3e), Point-à-Pitre: Désormaux, 1972, 31 p.; reunited with the previous one and reissued under the title Les Antilles françaises de leur découverte à nos jours, Fort-de-France: Désormeaux, 2001, 63 p.
•    Troubles sociaux à la Guadeloupe à la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle, 1895–1910, Pointe-à-Pitre: Cahiers du CERAG No. 31.
•    in collaboration with Jean-Paul Hervieu, Volcans et histoire : recueil de textes sur le volcanisme et les éruptions dans l'histoire des Antilles, Pointe-à-Pitre: CERAG, 1976; reprinted in Les volcans dans l'histoire des Antilles, Paris, Karthala, 1997, 229 p.
•    Documents d'histoire antillaise et guyanaise, 1819–1914, by the author, 1979, 323 p.
•    Delgrès ou la Guadeloupe en 1802, Paris: Karthala, 170 p.
•    La grande encyclopédie de la Caraïbe, vol. VI, "Histoire des Antilles", Pointe-à-Pitre: Sanoli, 1990, 207 p.
•    La Guadeloupe, les Antilles et la Révolution française -Itineraries, Pointe-à-Pitre, Office régional du patrimoine guadeloupéen, 1991, 156 p.
•    La Caraïbe et la Guyane au temps de la Révolution et de l'Empire, 1789–1804, Paris: Karthala, 1992, 222 p.
•    in coll. with Alain Yacou, La découverte et la conquête de la Guadeloupe, Paris: Karthala, 1993, 303 p.
•    Histoire générale des Antilles et des Guyanes, des Précolombiens à nos jours, Paris: Éd. caribéennes - L'Harmattan, 1994, 329 p.
•    Visions de la Caraïbe et des Guyanes : cartes postales anciennes, co-written with Jean Juraver, Gourbeyre : Nestor, 2012 OCLC 844779291.

Main works

• Historial antillais, vol. 4, Fort-de-France: Société Dajani, 1980, 569 pages.
• Historial antillais, vol. 3, Fort-de-France: Société Dajani, 1981, 569 pages.
• Histoire des communes des Antilles et de la Guyane, Pointe-à-Pitre: Éditions Caraïbes, 1986, 6 volumes of 306 pages
• Les hommes célèbres de la Caraïbe, dictionnaire, Pointe-à-Pitre: Éditions Caraïbes, 1993, 4 volumes.

References

1. Construire l'histoire antillaise : mélanges offerts à Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande. Lucien-René Abénon, Danielle Bégot, Jean-Pierre Sainton. Paris: Ed. du CTHS. 2002. pp. 29–46. ISBN 2-7355-0518-9. OCLC 401556030.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
2. Adélaïde-Merlande, Jacques (2000). Les origines du mouvement ouvrier en Martinique, 1870-1900 (in French). Paris: Karthala. p. 236. ISBN 2-84586-025-0.
3. . Guadeloupe la 1ère (in French). 25 November 2017. Archived from the original on 21 September 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
4. . 97land. 27 November 2017. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021.
5. Bégot, Danielle (2003). "Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande, ou l'histoire vagabonde". Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe (in French) (135–136): 51–56. doi:10.7202/1040735ar. ISSN 0583-8266.
6. Gillot, Dominique; Magras, Michel (16 April 2014). . Senate. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
7. . Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
8. Gainot, Bernard (1 September 1999). "La Guyane sous la Révolution, ou l'impasse de la révolution pacifique". Annales historiques de la Révolution française (in French) (317): 550–552. doi:10.4000/ahrf.923. ISSN 0003-4436.
9. . Oxford Bibliographies Online. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
10. . Montray Kréyol (in French). 3 August 2016. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
11. Construire l'histoire antillaise : mélanges offerts à Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande. Lucien-René Abénon, Danielle Bégot, Jean-Pierre Sainton. Paris: Ed. du CTHS. 2002. pp. 573–575. ISBN 2-7355-0518-9. OCLC 401556030.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)