Société des Anglicistes de l`Enseignement Supérieur – Concours

Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur – Concours 2006
Agrégation Externe d'Anglais 2005/2006
Annick Foucrier (Paris 13) :
Thomas Jefferson et l’Ouest - L’expédition de Meriwether Lewis et William Clark
Dans l’imposante bibliographie qui s’est développée depuis les années 1970 et surtout avec la commémoration du
bicentenaire, il était nécessaire de faire des choix. On s’est limité à une sélection de livres.
Tout en présentant les trois axes de réflexion qui sous-tendent le sujet : scientifique (recherche du légendaire passage
du Nord-Ouest, meilleure connaissance de la nature du territoire nouvellement acquis et de ses populations),
économique (concurrence pour le commerce des fourrures et l’accès au marché chinois), politique (rivalités avec les
Britanniques, les Espagnols, les Russes et les Français), on a placé la dimension scientifique au centre de la réflexion.
Des références sont données sur la situation géopolitique au début du XIXe siècle, l’expédition et ses résultats, les
conséquences de la pénétration américaine et l’évolution des interprétations concernant cette expédition (mythe
fondateur, exemple de triomphalisme lors du centenaire et devenu symbole du multiculturalisme pour le bicentenaire).
(Quelques ouvrages sont signalés par un court commentaire)
1. Sources primaires et narrations de l’expédition
a) Les Journaux
Bakeless, John, Lewis and Clark, Partners in Discovery, Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 1996 (1st ed. New York,
Morrow, 1947), 498 p.
Bergon, Frank, ed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Penguin Nature Library. New York, Penguin Books, 1995 (1st ed.
New York, Viking, 1989), 505 p.
Biddle, Nicholas and Paul Allen, eds., The Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Capts. Lewis and Clark,
Heritage Press, and Easton Press, 1962 (1st ed. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis
and Clark, Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814.)
Coues, Elliott, ed., History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark, Dover, 1965 to 2000 (1st ed. 4
vols, New York, Francis P. Harper, 1893).
DeVoto, Bernard, ed., Journals of Lewis and Clark, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997 (1st ed. 1953), 504 p. (Ouvrage
en un volume, accessible aux étudiants.)
Jones, Landon, The Essential Lewis and Clark, New York, Ecco Press, 2000, 203 p.
Lewis, Meriwether et Clark, William, Far West: Journal de la première traversée du continent nord-américain, 18041806, édition établie et présentée par M. Le Bris, Paris, Phébus libretto, 2 vol., 1993.
MacGregor, Carol Lynn, ed. The Journals of Patrick Gass: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Missoula,
Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 1997.
Moulton, Gary E., ed., The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 12 vol.,
1983-2002. (Une somme )
Moulton, Gary E., The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery. The Abridgment of the Definitive
Nebraska Edition, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2003, 413 p.
Osgood, Ernest Staples, ed. The Field Notes of Captain William Clark. New Haven and London, Yale University Press,
1964.
Quaife, Milo M., ed., The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway Kept on the Expedition of
Western Exploration, 1803-1806. Vol. 22 of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Collections, Madison, State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1917.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed., Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806, New York, Arno Press, 8
vols (1st ed. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1904), 1969. (Digital Scanning 2001).
Cutright, Paul Russell, A History of the Lewis and Clark Journals, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1976, 311 p.
b) Cartes et autres documents:
Benson, Guy Meriwether et al., Lewis and Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814, Charlottesville, VA: Howell
Press, 2002, 88 p.
Moulton, Gary E, ed. Atlas of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1983. (Superbe.)
Plamondon, Martin, Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction, Pullman, WA, Washington State
University Press, 3 vol., 2000-2004.
Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne, and Chénetier, Marc, dir., « Stemming the Mississippi », Revue Française d’Etudes
Américaines, n° spécial n°98, déc 2003 (dossier de cartes).
Jackson, Donald Dean, ed., Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with Related Documents, 1783-1854. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2 vol, 1978 (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1962). (Un bon complément des
journaux)
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Nasatir, Abraham, ed., Before Lewis and Clark: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785-1804,
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002 (1st ed. 1952), 854 p.
Jefferson, Thomas, Notes on the State of Virginia, with Related Documents, Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.
c) Narrations de l’expédition
Ambrose, Stephen E., Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American
West, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2003 (1st ed. 1996), 521 p. (Une bonne entrée en matière pour les étudiants,
malgré quelques réserves.)
Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken, Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, New York, Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc., 1999, 250 p.
Lavender, David, The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark across the Continent, Lincoln, University of Nebraska
Press, 2001 (1st ed. 1988), 431 p.
2. Thomas Jefferson.
Adams, William Howard, The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997, 354 p.
Bedini, Silvio A., Jefferson and Science, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 126 p.
Bedini, Silvio A., Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science, New York, Macmillan, 1990, 616 p.
Jackson, Donald Dean, Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello, Norman,
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993 (1st ed. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1981), 339 p.
Kaplan, Lawrence S., Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire, Wilmington, Del., SR Books, 1999, 198 p.
Koch, Adrienne and Peden, William H., eds., The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, New York, Modern
Library, 1998 (1st ed. 1944), 691 p.
Malone, Dumas, Jefferson and His Time, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Peterson, Merrill D., ed., Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography, New York, Scribner, 1986, 513 p. (Un bon bilan
des talents de Jefferson)
Peterson, Merrill D., The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, Charlottesville, VA, Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation, University Press of Virginia, 1998 (1st ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 1960), 548 p.
3. Le contexte, géo-politique, diplomatique, scientifique, économique
Allen, John Logan, Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest, New York, Dover Pub., 1991 (1st ed.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1975), 412 p. (Un classique)
Bannon, John Francis, The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970,
308 p.
Calloway, Colin G., One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, University of
Nebraska Press, 2003, 631 p.
Carter, Edward Carlos, « One Grand Pursuit »: A Brief History of the American Philosophical Society’s First 250 years,
1743-1993, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1993, 118 p.
Carter, Edward Carlos, ed., Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930, Philadelphia,
American Philosophical Society, 1999, 344 p. (Publication des actes d’un colloque de spécialistes.)
Christian, Shirley, Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty that Ruled America’s
Frontier, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004, 509 p.
Cook, Warren L., Flood Tide of Empire; Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1543-1819, New Haven, Yale University Press,
1973, 620 p.
Duchet, Michèle, Anthropologie et Histoire au siècle des Lumières. Buffon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Helvétius, Diderot,
Paris, Maspero, 1971, Flammarion, 1978, 446 p.
Ekberg, Carl J., François Valle and his World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark, Columbia, University of Missouri
Press, 2002, 316 p.
Feigenbaum, Gail, curator, Jefferson’s America and Napoleon’s France: An Exhibition for the Louisiana Purchase
Bicentennial, NO, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2003, 286 p.
Greene, John C., American Science in the Age of Jefferson, Ames, Iowa, Iowa state university press, 1984, 484 p.
(Très utile).
Hafen, LeRoy R., ed., French Fur Traders & Voyageurs in the American West, Selected, with an Introduction, by Janet
Lecompte, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 334 p.
Heffer, Jean, Les États-Unis et le Pacifique. Histoire d'une frontière, Paris, Albin Michel, 1995, 505 p. ; traduction
anglaise : The United States and the Pacific. History of a Frontier, Notre Dame, Notre Dame University Press, 2002,
504 p.
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Marshall, P.J. and Glyndwr, Williams, The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of
Enlightenment, London, J.M. Dent, 1982, 314 p. (chap.2 et 7)
Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne, Le ferment nationaliste : aux origines de la politique extérieure des Etats-Unis, Belin, 1994
(The Nationalist Ferment : The Origins of US Foreign Policy, Ohio State University Press, 2003), 399 p.
Wagner, Henry R., The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America To the Year 1800, 2 vol. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1937, 543 p.
4. Les membres de l’expédition
Anderson, Irving W., A Charbonneau Family Portrait: Biographical Sketches of Sacagawea, Jean Baptiste, and
Toussaint Charbonneau, Fort Clatsop Historical Association, 1988.
Betts, Robert B., In Search of York. The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark, Boulder, University Press
of Colorado, 2000 (1st ed. 1985), 204 p.
Clark, Ella E. and Edmonds, Margot, Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Berkeley, University of California
Press, 1979, 171 p.
Clarke, Charles G., The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-one Members and a
Composite Diary of their Activities from all Known Sources, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2002 (1st ed;
Glendale, Clark Co, 1970), 351 p.
Dillon, Richard H., Meriwether Lewis: A Biography, Santa Cruz, Western Tanager Press, 1988 (1st ed. New York,
Coward-McCann, 1965), 364 p.
Jones, Landon Y., William Clark and the Shaping of the West, New York, Hill and Wang, 2004, 394 p.
Nelson, W. Dale, Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau, Denton,
University of North Texas Press, 2003, 174 p.
Skarsten, M. O., George Drouillard, Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810, Lincoln,
University of Nebraska Press, 2005 (1st ed. Glendale 1964), 356 p. (Son importance dans l’expédition et son
tragique destin.)
Vaugeois, Denis, America, 1803-1853 : l’expédition de Lewis et Clark et la naissance d’une nouvelle puissance, Sillery,
Québec, Septentrion, 2002, 263 p. (Bonne documentation sur les Canadiens français.)
5. Quelques apports scientifiques de l’expédition
Chuinard, Eldon G., Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Glendale, Calif., A. H.
Clark Co., 1979, 444 p.
Criswell, Elijah Harry, Lewis and Clark Linguistic Pioneers, Columbia, The University of Missoury, 1940 (1st ed. 1926),
102 p.
Cutright, Paul Russell, Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2003 (1st ed.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1969), 506 p.
Holland, Leandra Zim, Feasting and fasting with Lewis & Clark: A Food and Social History of the Early 1800s, Old
Yellowstone, 2003, 279 p. (Bien illustré; et avec la recette du boudin blanc de Charbonneau)
6. Les interprétations de l’expédition et de ses conséquences : de Turner à la Nouvelle histoire de l’Ouest
Abbott, Carl, The Great Extravaganza: Portland and the Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon Historical
Society, 1981, 81 p.
Bender, Thomas, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002,
427 p.
Caron, Nathalie et Wulf, Naomi, dir., Thomas Jefferson et l'Ouest. L'expédition Lewis et Clark. Questions de civilisation,
Nantes, Editions du Temps, 2005. (à paraître)
Cronon, William, Miles, George, and Gitlin, Jay, eds., Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past, New
York, W. W. Norton & Cy, 1992, 354 p.
DeVoto, Bernard, The Course of Empire, Norwalk, Conn., Easton Press, 1988 (1st ed. 1952), 647 p.
Foucrier, Annick, Meriwether Lewis et William Clark : la traversée d’un continent, 1803-1806, préface de Philippe
Jacquin, éd. Michel Houdiard, coll. Biographies américaines, 2000, 104 p. (2e éd. actualisée et augmentée à
paraître en juillet 2005).
Fresonke, Kris and Spence, Mark, eds., Lewis and Clark: Legacies, Memories and New Perspectives, Berkeley,
University of California Press, 2004, 290 p. (Des interprétations nouvelles.)
Furtwangler, Albert, Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals, Urbana, University of Illinois
Press, 1993, 280 p.
Graebner, Norman A., Empire on the Pacific, A Study in American Continental Expansion, Santa Barbara, California,
ABC Clio, 1983, 278 p.
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Guillaud, Lauric, La terreur et le sacré: la nuit gothique américaine, Paris, Michel Houdiard, 2003, 280 p. (chap 3 sur le
fantastique dans la vision du paysage)
Hine, Robert V. and Faragher, John Mack, The American West: A New Interpretive History, New Haven, Yale University
Press, 2000, 576 p.
Jackson, Donald Dean, Among the Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces on Lewis and Clark, Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1987, 136 p.
Lagayette, Pierre, dir., Thomas Jefferson et l’Ouest: l’expédition de Lewis et Clark, ellipses (à paraître).
Lamar, Howard, R., ed., The New Encyclopedia of the American West, Yale University Press, 1998, 1324 p. (Une
somme d’informations.)
Lee, Robert Edison, From West to East: Studies in the Literature of the American West, Urbana, University of Illinois
Press, 1966, 172 p. (chap.2)
Limerick, Patricia N., Milner, Clyde A. II, and Rankin, Charles E., eds., Trails: Toward a New Western History,
University Press of Kansas, 1991, 278 p.
McLaughlin, Castle, Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark’s Indian Collection, Seattle, WA, University of Washington
Press, 2003, 359 p.
Meinig, D. W., The Shaping of America, Vol.2: Continental America, 1800-1867, New Haven, Yale University Press,
1993.
Milner, Clyde A. II, O’Connor, Carol A., Sandweiss Martha A., eds, The Oxford History of the American West, New York,
Oxford University Press, 1994, 872 p.
Onuf, Peter, Jefferson's Empire: the Language of American Nationhood, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia,
2000, 250 p.
Ronda, James P. and Koupal, Nancy Tystad, eds., Finding Lewis and Clark: Old trails, New Directions, Pierre: South
Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2004, 203 p.
Ronda, James P., Beyond Lewis & Clark: The Army Explores the West, Tacoma, Washington State Historical Society,
2003, 106 p.
Ronda, James P., ed., Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West: From Conquest to Conservation, Albuquerque,
University of New Mexico Press; St. Louis, Missouri Historical Society Press, 1997, 204 p.
Ronda, James P., ed., Voyages of Discovery: Essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Helena, Montana Historical
Society Press, 1998, 351 p.
Ronda, James P., Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press,
2001, 138 p.
Ronda, James P., Jefferson's West: A Journey with Lewis and Clark, Monticello Monograph Series, Thomas Jefferson
Foundation, 2000, 80 p.
Ronda, James P., Lewis and Clark among the Indians, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2002 (1st ed. 1984),
310 p.
Seefeldt, Douglass, Hantman, Jeffrey L., and Onuf, Peter S., eds., Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark,
and the Making of America, University of Virginia Press, 2005, 224 p.
Slaughter, Thomas, Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness, Vintage Books, 2004 (1st ed. New
York, A. Knopf, 2003), 231 p. (Une histoire culturelle des explorateurs)
Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1971
(1st ed. 1950), 305 p.
Wallace, Anthony F.C., Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans, Cambridge, Mass., Belknap
Press, 1999, 394 p.
White, Richard, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815,
Cambridge MA, Cambridge University Press, 1991, 544 p.
White, Richard, « It’s Your Misfortune and None of My own »: A New History of the American West, Norman, University
of Oklahoma Press, 644 p.
Wicazo Sa Review, n° spécial, vol. 19 n°1, 2004 : (Un numéro critique du bicentenaire, édité par des Amérindiens)
http://www.upress.umn.edu/journals/wsr/issues/19-1.html
Reconstitutions filmées:
Burns, Ken. Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, 1997. Video et DVD
National Geographic: Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West. Video et DVD
Quelques sites internet :
pbs: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
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Missouri Historical Society: http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/LewisandClark/
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation (We Proceeded On): http://www.lewisandclark.org/
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (National Park):
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/SiteMap/SiteMapMain.htm
Monticello: http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/
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