Les vallées d'Imintanoute offrent un exemple des vallées montagnardes du Haut Atlas occidental en crise. Ayant longtemps été considéré par ses habitants comme un « espace refuge », le pays d'Imintanoute apparaît, aujourd?hui, comme une « zone d'émigration » par excellence. Malgré une certaine diversification des cultures, occupant l'espace irrigué (bled targa) du fond des vallées et la culture céréalière pluviale d'orge du bled bour* (espace de culture pluviale), associée à un élevage et à une arboriculture diversifiée (amandiers et oliviers) comme source de revenu complémentaire de la paysannerie, actuellement, des signes de crise apparaissent de façon évidente. L'agriculture de subsistance souffre de la sécheresse persistante, du manque d'irrigation, d'un rendement à l'hectare très faible, d'une arboriculture en cours de dégradation et d'un élevage toujours en déclin. La collectivité traditionnelle et l'espace imintanoutiens n'ont pas non plus échappé aux mutations profondes. La majorité des vieux systèmes d'irrigation (la naoura et la sania) a été laissé à l'abandon ou remplacé par la motopompe. Cette technique moderne a transformé le paysage du bled targa voire du bled bour*. Tous les villages sont touchés aujourd'hui par l'émigration sans exception. Beaucoup de jeunes quittent leurs douars pour cause de pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, de nouvelles structures socio-économiques, culturelles et politiques ont changé les comportements et les modes de vie des populations. Face aux transformations, l'espoir repose sur la nouvelle autoroute Marrakech-Agadir et sur d'autres projets encore afin de redynamiser l'économie de façon à améliorer la qualité de vie des Aït Imintanoute. / Imintanoute valleys constitute an example of mountain valleys in Western Atlas undergoing severe crisis. Long considered a "place of refuge" by its inhabitants, the Imintanoute area - with its three aspects: mountain, piedmont and plain - now appears as a major "expulsion zone".Even though agriculture has diversified to some extent - based in the irrigated zones (bled targa) at the bottom of valleys and on the rainfed barley crops of the bled bour* (rainfed agricultural area), together with breeding and diversified fruit tree crops (almond and olive trees) as a source of complementary income for farmers - obvious signs of crisis appear today. Subsistence agriculture suffers from persistent draughts, lack of irrigation, a very low average yield rate per hectare, the gradual degradation of fruit tree crops and the decline of breeding. The traditional community and the area of Imintanoute have undergone profound changes. Most of the old irrigation systems (naoura and sania) have been abandoned or replaced by power pumps. That modern technology has transformed the landscape of the bled targa and possibly even of the bled bour*. All villages without exception are affected by emigration. Many young people are driven out from their douars by poverty. Today, new social, economic, cultural and political structures have changed the behaviours and the ways of life of the populations. In view of those changes, hope rests on the new motorway from Marrakech to Agadir and on still other projects to redynamize the economy and thus improve the quality of life of the Aït Imintanoute.

Etude du rôle des banquiers piémontais au service des ducs de Brabant et de leurs rapports avec les différents pouvoirs: Prince, noblesse et villes.<p>Estimation de leur fonction économique et sociale au sein de la société urbaine brabançonne. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

For over two hundred years, historians have debated the historical importance of early Tennessee migrants in shaping the state’s history. These discussions center around North Carolina's impact compared to Virginia's. By shifting discourse to the retention of migrant mentalities, the overwhelming influence of Virginia emerges through the continuity of privilege and commodification schemata. This study employs an interdisciplinary methodological approach combining schema theory, memory studies, and material culture analysis to outline the retention of mentalities from Tidewater, Virginia, to East Tennessee during the early settlement period. By utilizing the case study of John Carter of Watauga (1728-1781), the research illustrates how Virginian origins shaped settlers’ perceptions of privilege through inheritance, ordered society, and models of success, as well as commodification through ownership, resource extraction, and speculation. Findings reveal that Virginian mental frameworks were foundational paradigms, guiding settlers’ actions and perpetuating hierarchical structures within Tennessee society. Despite the opportunity for deviation that migration and community establishment provided, elite settlers chose to assimilate and reestablish the dominant position of Virginian schemata within their new environment. The persistence of Virginian schemata in Tennessee informs broader questions of identity formation, migrant nostalgia, and the enduring legacy of colonial mentalities in shaping American history.