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🔴 🇨🇦 🎥 Extinct Canadian Accent

"PM William Lyon Mackenzie King talking about Canada's position in the global economy in 1939."

length: fifty-three seconds.

youtube.com/shorts/hXYvfxTk_4I

🔴 Hi-tech recreation of Richard III’s voice has a Yorkshire accent

Tom Ambrose and agency

"The result of the recreation is that Richard III’s accent sounds more distinctly from Yorkshire than the English spoken by the likes of Ian McKellen and Laurence Olivier when portraying the monarch in the Shakespeare play."

🔗 theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n

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🔴 🇯🇵 J. R. Seeley And Japan's Pacific Expansion

"Korhonen's essay began with a striking claim:

The first person ever to use the term Pacific Age was the Japanese political economist Inagaki Manjirō. Inagaki studied the history of Great Britain's expansionary policies under the guidance of the British historian John Robert Seeley at Cambridge University during the late 1880s. Seeley had been influenced by the German geographer Carl Ritter. Through Inagaki a certain style of European nineteenth-century visionary rhetoric was introduced into discussions about the Pacific future. That is an interesting point in itself, but even more interesting are the shifts in perspective that resulted from this transference of concepts into a different context."

DUSINBERRE, M. (2021) ‘J. R. SEELEY AND JAPAN’S PACIFIC EXPANSION’, The Historical Journal, 64(1), pp. 70–97. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000.

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🔴 🗺️ Franco-American Maps of the Revolution

Posted by: Carissa Pastuch

"This remarkable collection eponymously named the “Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, papers, 1777–94,” is comprised of correspondence, histories, papers, and maps that belonged to the commander-in-chief of the French expeditionary army (1780–82) during the American Revolution—French General Rochambeau (1725–1807)."

🔗 blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/11/fra

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Since the fifth century of the common era every imperial hegemon has tried to avoid the fate that befell the Roman Empire.

🔴 No Nazis in Valhalla: Understanding the Use (and Misuse) of Nordic Cultural Markers in Third Reich Era Germany

"Through the appropriation of medieval Old Norse imagery and mythology, as well as the construction of the idea of a pure Nordic race and the spread of propaganda through media by artists like Richard Wagner, the Nazi Party was able to utilize the newfound elevation of Nordic culture to legitimize its own ideas of racial purity and culture."

Nighswander, Lena (2020) "No Nazis in Valhalla: Understanding the Use (and Misuse) of Nordic Cultural Markers in Third Reich Era Germany," International ResearchScape Journal: Vol. 7, Article 6. DOI: doi.org/10.25035/irj.07.01.06

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🔴 Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission

"This imaginary Phoenicia entered historiography and
cartography as a reality, not only in France but also in the
Ottoman Realm, then the sovereign entity over the Levant.
The toponym was used, anachronistically, for Biblical
maps to refer to the Sidonians and the Tyrians of the Ancient Testament. Already, in the popular Van Dyck-Smith Arabic translation of the Bible, the versions illustrated with maps showed a “Phoenicia” in the time of David and Solomon."

Keilo, J.: Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission, Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 3, 9, doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-3-9-2, 2021.

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🔴 🌍 🎥 Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1600 to 1750: Early Modern Balance of Power

The Burning Archive

length: forty-four minutes and thirty-five seconds.

youtu.be/9L4ANCvK2HY

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🔴 📖 The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period

_Whereas previous scholarship has considered the Queens of the Arabs in relation to the military and economic history of the Neo-Assyrian empire, Eleanor Bennett focuses on identity, using gender theory to locate points of the women’s alterity in Assyrian sources and to analyze how Assyrian cultural norms influenced the treatment of the “Queens of the Arabs._

🔗 eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/9

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🔴 🌍 How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

"“There’s been this long-standing argument—and this is something that comes out of the colonial narrative—that parts of Africa have just always been food insecure because their agriculture, environments, or crops are inferior,” says Logan. But, as the data show, African farmers were knowledgeable and successful for thousands of years. Outside forces uprooted that security."

🔗 sapiens.org/archaeology/food-i

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🔴 📖 Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction

"The earliest surviving depiction of the four cardinal directions is found in the Gasur Map, a clay tablet from the third millennium BCE discovered in modern-day Iraq. It refers not to astronomical observations but meteorological ones: the four winds."

🔗 washingtonindependentreviewofb

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🔴 📖 Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems

"By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch’s natural scientific programme and the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general."

Meeusen, M. (2017) Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems. doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwtcsk.

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🔴 📖 “Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq” by Bartle Bull

"Land Between the Rivers is an easy read, with a flowing narrative line and long, interesting digressions on such subjects as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Zoroastrianism and its influence on the Abrahamic religions and the “ramshackle” Pathian Empire’s predilection for Hellenism (the court was rather fond of Euripides)....."

🔗 asianreviewofbooks.com/content

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🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇪 From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland

"English colonialism meant replacing one type of kingdom with another, and thus bringing the pre-existing Gaelic kingdom of Ireland into conformity with an English model. In this way, Ireland was transformed from a kingdom to a colony."

Colin Veach, From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland , The English Historical Review, 2024;, ceae210, doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae210.

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🔴 Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia (1088–1800)

"From the Bernoullis to the Eulers, families of scholars have been common in academia since the foundation of the first university in 1088. In this paper, we have shown that this was the result of two factors: Initially, scholars’ sons benefited from their fathers’ connections to get jobs at their fathers’ university. Between 1088 and 1543, about one in two scholars’ sons benefited from nepotism. They became academics even when their underlying human capital was lower than that of marginal first-generation scholar. After the Scientific Revolution, nepotism faded but families remained in academia."

Croix, D.d.l., Goñi, M. Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia (1088–1800). J Econ Growth 29, 469–514 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s10887-024-092

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🔴 🗺️ The Map That Changed the Middle East (1916)

"Seven days later the two would sign the Sykes–Picot Agreement, a secret agreement between the the UK and France outlining, according to the lines on the map, how they would carve up the Middle East should the Ottoman Empire be defeated in the First World War."

🔗 publicdomainreview.org/collect

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🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016

_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._

Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024..

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🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016

_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._

Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024..

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🔴 🇳🇴 Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga

"Here we apply palaeogenomic analysis to human remains excavated from a medieval well at the ruins of Sverresborg Castle in central Norway. In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains."

Ellegaard, M.R. et al. (2024) 'Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga,' iScience, p. 111076. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.11.

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