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Résumé Cet article appréhende le patronat impliqué dans le « moment colonial ». Jusqu’alors, l’historiographie évoquait le « patronat colonial » en l’opposant au patronat « métropolitain » pour définir les grands patrons impliqués outre-mer. La formule est passe-partout mais cache la diversité des situations et des pratiques des affaires. De quel patronat parle-t-on ? Un rapide balayage montre un monde riche et complexe où le qualificatif de « colonial » induit davantage de méprises qu’il ne résout de questions. À la suite de la nouvelle histoire impériale et des débats qu’elle suscite, nous suggérons d’utiliser l’échelle impériale pour tenter une typologie permettant de mieux saisir cette diversité et pour appréhender les stratégies patronales dans le cadre de la première globalisation induite par les empires coloniaux.

This article highlights the utility of the study of business networks in bettering the understanding of the colonial experience. The author uses the case study of the Lyon silk merchants and financiers who created networks destined to better compete with their British counterparts on the Asian markets. Their initial goal was to buïld an integrated System that went from a depot bank to the installation of vast communication and transportation networks in Southeast France in order to link up Lyon and Shanghai. These Liberals, strongly influenced by the philosophy of Saint-Simon, would, little by little, turn their attention to the Tonkin, planning to transform it into the necessary spring board in the conquest of Southwest China markets. To achieve their goals, these businessmen, anchored in a liberal tradition of the Centre Left, would create numerous political des with the republican Opportunists. In so doing, they created the base of what would later be known as the Colonial Party. The author brings out what he calls the linocracy, in other words, " the power of networks ".

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All' ombra dei templi di Angkor. Il turismo in Cambogia. All'ombra di un passato prestigioso, certamente superato ma costantemente riportato alla luce per nécessita sia politiche che economiche, et sulle distese di rovine lasciate dal regime dell'Angkar (1970-1975), dalla guerra tra Vietnam e Cambogia (1979-1989) et dalla guerra civile cambodgiana (1970-1993), in questo paese che fu uno dei più isolati al mondo, il turismo rinasce in Cambogia. Il turismo manifesta dunque un'apertura all'altro, vicino o lontano, régionale o internazionale, una volonté di riunire, al di lé della «rottura» del secolo scorso, i cambogiani nativi ed emigrati ? Che posto i cambogiani della diaspora occupano in questo processo ?