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1962: The TELEVISION SET You Can WEAR | Tonight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

"The Electrocula - a 30 ounce portable television set that can be worn on the head. They system projects a television picture onto an adjustable monocle in front of the viewer's eye, enabling them to watch television while doing other things."

#Video length: 2 minutes 24 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBO5JuecPE

#History #BBC #Archive #Television #TV #Tech #Technology #STEM

"The ultimate goal, I suggest, was a translatio imperii; the establishment of an imperial monarchy in the west that could rival the Habsburg empire, and which in time, perhaps, might even come to imitate the universal glory of the Roman imperium. Not the American Atlantic seaboard, but rather the continent of Europe, with its arms, its learning, and its treasure, was the goal of Bacon’s early imperial vision."

Serjeantson, R. (2024) ‘Francis Bacon, colonisation, and the limits of Atlanticism’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2338341.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #FrancisBacon #Colonialism #Imperialism #Ireland #Atlantic #EuropeanUnion #EU #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

#Image attribution: Yale Center for British Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous_-_Sir_Francis_Bacon,_1st_Viscount_St_Alban_-_B1977.14.9772_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg

Why Did the World Ignore This Island for 15 Years?

#Video length: 15:20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYkuYZQopXM

#History #Histodon #Histodons #France #Slavery #Slaves #IndianOcean #EarlyModern #C18th #18thCentury #TromelinIsland #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @earlymodern

As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West – review

"In As Gods Among Men, Guido Alfani examines the history of the rich in the West from the Middle Ages to modern times, including paths to wealth, societal perceptions and their resilience against shocks."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2024/05/07/book-review-as-gods-among-men-a-history-of-the-rich-in-the-west-guido-alfani/

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"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."

Gale, Alexander. "How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/slavery-ancient-rome-plebeian-farmers-poverty/ (accessed May 7, 2024).

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Rome #Romans #Empire #Europe #Slavery #Farmers #Farming @histodon @histodons

TikTok Conspiracy Theory: Ancient Rome Never Existed? A Classicist Reacts

#Video length: 46 minutes 10 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXvI5aopXA

#Debunking #Tiktok #Conspiracy #Ancient #Rome #Roman #Romans #Empire #History #Histodon #Histodons #Classics @histodon @histodons

A New Audience for the World’s First Author

"Around year 2000 BCE, the Sumerian language, in which the poems are written, died out as a native language, becoming instead a language of scholarship and religious rituals, much like Latin in Europe and Sanskrit in India. And so, it had to be taught in schools, and the copying of Sumerian poems—including those attributed to Enheduana—was a key part of the school curriculum in ancient Babylonian cities like Nippur and Ur."

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/05/06/a-new-audience-for-the-worlds-first-author/

#Ancient #History #Essays #Poetry #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Discussing Teb Tengri and the Religious Views of Chinggis Khan

"Included is discussions of historical sources (Juvaini, Rashid al-Din, the Secret History of the Mongols) letters written by Hulegu Khan and Chinggis Khan's views (or lack there of?) towards Buddhism."

https://youtu.be/9EydS641ldI

#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #MongolEmpire #Asia #Empire #GenghisKhan #ChinggisKhan @histodon @histodons

"Banana republics are Central American and Caribbean nations exploited by multinational businesses and imperialist governments."

Stoyack, Aaron. "What Is a Banana Republic?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-a-banana-republic/ (accessed May 4, 2024).

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Corporations #BananaRepublics #LatinAmerica #Caribbean @histodon @histodons

#Image attribution: Rosendahl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_bananas_tree.jpg

"This paper presents the first empirical evidence in the history of banking on the question of whether banks can create money out of nothing. The banking crisis has revived interest in this issue, but it had remained unsettled."

Werner, R.A. (2014) 'Can banks individually create money out of nothing? — The theories and the empirical evidence,' International Review of Financial Analysis, 36, pp. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2014.07.015. #OpenAccess #OA #History #Economics #Finance #Banking #Bank #Banks #Credit #Money @economics @banking

1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline

"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."

#Video length: 54 minutes 40 seconds

https://youtu.be/Pu-Fcc5vFlE

#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons

Early Modern Genres of History

Johnsen, E.N., & Stovner, I.L. (Eds.). (2024). Early Modern Genres of History (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003331971

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon
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"These eight cities were not necessarily the largest in terms of land area or even population in some cases, but they were large in their sense of importance to the medieval era."

Whipple, Madison. "The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/largest-cities-medieval-world/ (accessed April 30, 2024).

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @histodon @histodons

"Rare footage of Queen Victoria arriving at a garden party (1898)."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWZ7AO42jPY

#Video #QueenVictoria #History #Histodon #Histodons #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #C19th #19thCentury #BritishPathe @histodon @histodons

Writing a History of Ignorance

"There are many kinds of ignorance—simply not knowing, being aware of not knowing (like Socrates), wanting not to know, and not wanting other people to know."

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/04/30/writing-a-history-of-ignorance/

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"Incense spheres discovered in Tang hoards, which are the earliest artefacts found to date, reveal multicultural origins upon close examination. Persian and Sogdian silversmith elements, Buddhist ideas and Syriac Christian liturgical practices, may all have left their traces on the making of the object."

Fang, F. X. (2024). Scent, Art and Astronomy: New Light on Tang Incense Spheres and Their Global Connections. The Medieval History Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09719458231226000

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Medieval #Medievodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Asia #China #India #Iran #CentralAsia #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @medievodons

"The text describes how Plato, suffering from a severe fever on his deathbed, listened to music played on a flute by an enslaved Thracian woman. According to a written dialogue in the text, Plato had just enough energy to critique the musician for her lack of rhythmic abilities."

Snow, Emily. "Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-papyrus-reveals-platos-final-hours/ (accessed April 30, 2024).

#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Plato #Philosophy @histodon @histodons

"How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? "

Hostetler, L. (eds) (31 Jan. 2024). Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004684782 [Accessed 30 April 2024]

#OpenAccess #OA #Brill #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Asia #Map #Maps #Cartography #Culture #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (80)

"Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the Judeans’ socio-economic status and integration into Babylonian society."

Alstola, T. (19 Dec. 2019). Judeans in Babylonia, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004365421 [Accessed 29 April 2024]

#OpenAccess #OA #Brill #DOI #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Judaism #Religion #Babylonia #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (79)

Genghis Khan vs the Shaman Teb Tengri

"In the early days of the Mongol Empire, Chinggis Khan relied on the support of an influential shaman named Teb Tengri. But the Shaman soon became a threat, undermining the rule of Chinggisids and seeking to turn Chinggis Khan's family against each other."

https://youtu.be/NuZ7UWLEdGo

#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #Mongols #GenghisKhan #Asia @histodon @histodons