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🔴 The Land at the End of the Empire: The Roman Eastern Border in Mesopotamia
"The impressive archaeological remains of the city — enclosed by massive walls and spatially organized by insulae (habitation blocks) — have yielded records of a multi-ethnic and religious settlement, with rich civilian houses flanked by a military quarter with baths and a small amphitheater, with temples and shrines dedicated to local deities, but also a synagogue and a church."
🔗 https://anetoday.org/roman-eastern-border-mesopotamia/
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Rome #Romans #Empire #Mesopotamia #Asia #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 X-ray evidence of Black maths scholar portrait reveals snubbed genius
"It has long been mistaken for a satirical painting that mocks its Black subject for having the temerity to pretend to be a Georgian gentleman and scholar. But it is now thought to have been commissioned in 1760 by Williams himself to immortalise his brilliance as a trailblazing astronomer who, the clues in the painting suggest, successfully managed to compute and witness the trajectory of Halley’s comet over Jamaica in 1759."
#Art #Slavery #Race #Science #Astronomy #Maths #Mathematics #Math #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @science
🔴 🇪🇸 DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville
"On Thursday, after two decades of DNA testing and research, the forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente said the incomplete set of remains in Seville Cathedral were indeed those of Columbus."
#History #Histodon #Histodons #DNA #Genetics #Science #Seville #Spain #Europe #Colonialism @science @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 Nazi SS Veterans Interviewed in Cold War West Germany (1965)
"Protesters were marching ahead of a meeting of veterans of the Waffen-SS, the combat arm of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Demonstrators were alarmed by media reports that SS veterans were secretly assisting each other into positions of power in West German society, including the country's security services."
#Video length: eight minutes and two seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/MD28z3ioiQ8
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Nazis @histodon @histodons
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ 🇺🇸 US President or American Caesar?
"The clamour about an American Caesar hit a kind of crescendo during the Jacksonian era of the 1830s. The heirs of the Federalists saw the military hero-turned-president Andrew Jackson as an American Bonaparte, whose claim to represent the true voice of the American people illustrated the worst excesses of democratic politics."
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/us-president-or-american-caesar
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #JuliusCaesar #Caesar
#Image attribution: Marcantonio Raimondi, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speculum_Romanae_Magnificentiae-_Julius_Caesar,_from_The_Twelve_Caesars_MET_DP870057.jpg
⭐ The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty
"Having established that free cities developed the first truly modern market-friendly legal institutions, Salter and Young advance their most provocative claim: McCloskey (2010) gets the timing wrong on her Bourgeois Dignity thesis. Instead, Salter and Young (2023, pp. 202–206) argue that self-governing medieval cities cultivated bourgeois virtues and lent dignity to merchants in the High Middle Ages."
Truitt, T. The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty. Rev Austrian Econ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-024-00658-y
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Economics #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges #Feudalism #Liberalism #EconHist #Academia #Academic #Academics @econhist @medievodons
⭐ An Instrument of Social Control: The Scientization of Drunkenness
"Theories of alcoholism came to be used as instruments of social control. Medical discourses influenced anti-alcohol movements and later supported the tendency to make “drunkards” invisible by committing them to drinkers’ asylums."
https://historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/24667
#History #Histodon #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Medicine #Society #Alcohol #Alcoholism @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **Thomas Jefferson Knew his Greek**
"_Among these, he owned at least two copies of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, a biographical novel written in Greek about the Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great (circa 600 – 530 BCE)_"
🔗 **https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/09/25/thomas-jefferson-knew-his-greek/**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #RareBooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **Migrant Voices in Multilingual London,** **1560****–****1600**
"_By charting how linguistic diversity was part of the lives of ordinary Londoners in this period, including close examination of incidents of multilingual insult, slander, and conflict, this article argues that the civic and religious authorities relied on the stranger churches’ abilities to carry out surveillance of speech in languages other than English, and that urban social relations and urban spaces were shaped by multilingualism._"
Gallagher, J. (2024) ‘Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560–1600’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440124000069
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Language #Linguistics #Anthropology #London #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @linguistics @earlymodern
🔴 **The forging of countries**
"_The nobilities of the Habsburg-ruled kingdoms – of diverse ethnic and linguistic origins – had strong and well-developed conceptions of belonging to a common nation. So strong, in fact, that they resisted incorporation into the kind of centralised absolutist states characteristic of 18th-century Europe. The Habsburg Monarchy was nearly torn apart by the pressures of such policies pursued by Joseph II, who rescinded most of them on his deathbed in 1790._"
🔗 **https://aeon.co/essays/the-myth-of-civic-vs-ethnic-nationhood-in-europe-east-and-west**
#History #Essay #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Nation #Empire #Politics #Race #Ethnicity @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🗺️ **Made in America: U.S. Manufacturing in Gilded Age Census Maps**
"_I recently heard a factoid in passing that fascinated me and sparked further investigation: after having been decidedly middle of the pack immediately post-Civil War, the United States’ share of total world manufacturing output became the highest in the world between 1880 and 1900, with a near exponential pace of growth during these decades._"
🔗 **https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/09/made-in-america-maps/**
#Map #Maps #Cartography #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Manufacturing #History #Economics
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **1957: BRITISH SUNDAYS - Should We Have More FREEDOM?**
"_Christopher Chataway reports on the British Sunday, when theatres, shops and restaurants are closed and most sporting events are prohibited._
#Video length: eight minutes and fourteen seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/n62zZATx9Ts**
#History #Sunday #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #British #Freedom #C20th #20thCentury
🔴 **The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea**
"_What’s more, historians such as Oscar and Mary Handlin, Edmund Morgan and Edward Rugemer have largely confirmed Du Bois’s suspicion that while xenophobia appears to be fairly universal among human groupings, the invention of a white racial identity was motivated from the start by a need to justify the enslavement of Africans._"
🔗 **https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea**
🟡 **<font color="yellow">What Americans think about the Roman Empire</font>**
"_The longevity of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity, its political structure, its pagan religion, and its military conquests are each viewed positively by more Americans than view them negatively, among the population who knows at least something about the Roman Empire. And Americans overwhelmingly say Roman slaveholding was a mostly negative aspect of the Roman Empire._"
🔗 **https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/50546-what-americans-think-about-the-roman-empire**
🟡 **<font color="yellow">Lord Kelvin: how the 19th century scientist combined research and innovation to change the world</font>**
"_Thomson’s lifelong talent for inventing ingenious scientific instruments secured him 70 patents, enabled dozens of scientific breakthroughs and made him a highly successful entrepreneur._"
🔴 🎥 **Hitler's American Ranch?**
#Video length: eight minutes and eighteen seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/T_qulE5iXi4**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Hitler #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
