📖 In a paper published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, Marta Macedo examines "how cannabis was part and parcel of the lives of peoples from Angola recruited to São Tomé and, consequently, of the island's plantation worlds in the late nineteenth century." 🇸🇹
"De la vie quotidienne à l'associationnisme politique, de la circulation d'imprimés à l'engagement armé, les objets et leurs usages ont en effet façonné la politisation, rendant tangible le politique."
Thank you to the @OIEAHC for a wonderful conference in Poitiers last week and for the great interest in our panel on the Prize Papers and the American War of Independence. Great panels and discussions! We also saw the sights & enjoyed good food. #history#histodons#OIEAHC#Poitiers@histodons@historikerinnen
“Gerardus Mercator is perhaps well-known for all the wrong reasons. His last name evokes the infamous Mercator projection, which depicts the world in a distorted way. The projection has been criticized for putting Europe at the center of the world and favoring the northern hemisphere by making countries there appear bigger than they are in reality.”
"Le politique dans les #Amériques: regards croisés histoire et anthropologie"
"Nous proposons lors de cette journée de faire un état des lieux du champ politique dans la recherche américaniste, afin de questionner la #politisation des sociétés, les formes de représentation politique ou encore la fabrique institutionnelle des sociétés modernes."
Als 1949 das Textilgeschäft "Lützow" in der Bremer Hillmann-Passage wiedereröffnet wird, schaute dieses Gedicht mutig nach vorne und doch wehmütig zurück auf den alten Standort in der zerstörten Sögestraße.
Today is International Day of Women in Diplomacy! #emdiplomacy was by no means an all male affaire. Women played a central role not only in mainting contacts to the queen's court and other female actors. They could also directly take part in negotiations, as the example of the Ladies' Peace of Cambrai (1529) shows. Here Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated for the Emperor and the king of France respectively.
If you want to know more, have a look at the #handbook article by Carolyn James who talks about female diplomatic actors.
Finnane & Richards in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review investigate the evidence of genocide against First Nations on the Queensland frontier 1859-1897. They argue that the impact of colonisation needs to be studied carefully using local sources. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12278
Long-lost Assyrian military camp devastated by ‘the angel of the Lord’ finally found, scientist claims
“At the British Museum in London, there is a relief depicting the siege of Lachish, and it shows the Assyrian camp. Stephen Compton, an independent scholar who specializes in Near Eastern Archaeology, compared this relief to photos from the early to mid-20th century which show Lachish. He identified a site north of Lachish with an oval shaped structure with walls that he thinks may have been the Assyrians’ camp.”
A systematic genocide? Army violence against Native Americans was greater when land values increased due to gold mining or RR building & in recessionary election years, according to economist Warren Anderson in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12283
Volunteer Louise Pengelley shows a page from the 1638 Mercator Atlas to delegates of the Societies of Antiquaries of Ireland and Scotland today at the delightful Library of Innerpeffray, Scotland’s oldest free lending library - established 1680! https://innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk
For the first time since 2015, I won't be teaching FIU's UCC course in Ancient history. Instead I will lead a teaching team in the Honors College's Freshman Seminar with two other fantastic teachers.
It's bittersweet. I'm giving up the UCC course because otherwise my course load would be too heavy. This course has been my baby. It got me my job at FIU. At the same time, this is great opportunity, and FIU's Honors College a great place to be.