Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🔴 🎥 **Echoes of the Silk Road: Cities of Trade and Culture**
British Library
_“Watch this expert panel of historians and writers explore other historic cities along this legendary corridor. Join Bettany Hughes as she uncovers the ancient wonders of Istanbul, and travel with Colin Thubron through Uzbekistan to explore the legendary city of Samarkand.”_
#Video length: one and eighteen minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/wxoyhyH3AWg
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #SilkRoad #Trade #Culture @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇵🇹 🇰🇪 **Sunken ship may hold secrets of Vasco da Gama’s last voyage, archaeologists say**
Vishwam Sankaran
_"Researchers say the ship, discovered in 2013 in waters off a Kenyan coastal town, is a Portuguese vessel and may have been Da Gama’s Sao Jorge, which sank in 1524 – the year the famed explorer died in India, likely from malaria."_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/vasco-da-gama-ship-final-voyage-b2655089.html
#History #Histodon #Histodons #VascoDaGama #Kenya #Portugal #IndianOcean #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **The cradle of British Christianity BURNED by Vikings**
#Video length: two minutes and nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hgkac4abS1c
#Religion #Christianity #Vikings #Scotland #England #Britain #Europe #History #HIstodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Real History of Squanto and Mayflower-Indian Relations**
Andrew Lipman
_“Those colonists are best known today as “Pilgrims,” a name they did not call themselves. Squanto, who was also known as Tisquantum, had been their translator for twenty months when he fell ill in November 1622. It had been two years since the Mayflower arrived on American shores and one year after the so-called First Thanksgiving, a diplomatic visit that was not actually a feast of thanksgiving.”_
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/11/27/the-real-history-of-squanto-and-mayflower-indian-relations/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Funny Churchill Bloopers**
_“Behind-the-scenes of Churchill filming a 1950 election appeal.”_
#Video length: one minute and twenty-one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/4oqVvVFUGNE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #Bloopers #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **Eisenhower in 5 Minutes**
#Video length: four minutes and thirty-six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/mXi5qUUwzOk
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C20th #20thCentury #Eisenhower @histodon @histodons
🔴 **“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain**
_“Chronic coin shortages plagued Ireland and Britain's American colonies throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite complaints, every proposal to mint money in early modern Britain's overseas Atlantic empire failed, whether in Ireland, the Caribbean, or North America. This article explains why.”_
Caden, M. (2024) ‘“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain’, Journal of British Studies, pp. 1–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.119.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Britain #Empire #Imperialism #Colonialism #Currency #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
🔴 **Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses**
_“This is in agreement with experimental data, which indicate that placing a HT in a domed oven, preheated with glowing embers to an initial temperature of 420ºC for two hours, can yield a uniformly baked bread loaf or ‘focaccia’ weighing about 3.5 kg.”_
Taranto, S., Barcons, A.B., Portillo, M. et al. Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses. Sci Rep 14, 26805 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78019-9
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Food #Neolithic #Mesopotamia #Academia #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population**
_“We also investigated the debated question on the genetic origin of Armenians and failed to find any significant support for historical suggestions by Herodotus of their Balkan-related ancestry. We checked the degree of continuity of modern Armenians with ancient inhabitants of the eastern Armenian highlands and detected a genetic input into the region from a source linked to Neolithic Levantine Farmers at some point after the Early Bronze Age.”_
Hovhannisyan et al., Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population, The American Journal of Human Genetics (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.10.022
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Demography #Genetics #Genome #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology #History #BronzeAge #Armenia #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology
🔴 **Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture**
_"In this comparative study, I argue that Egyptian and Judean Hebrew/Aramaic scripts from 400 BCE–400 CE were heavily influenced by Greek and later Latin writing cultures, which explains many previously inexplicable phenomena. Jewish writers in the third century BCE adopted the Greek split-nibbed reed pen, which dramatically changed the appearance of Hebrew/Aramaic scripts. At the same time, the normal size for Hebrew/ Aramaic scripts shrank considerably, the pen strokes became mostly monotone and unshaded, and the scripts became more rectilinear, angular, bilinear, and square."_
Longacre, Drew. (2021). Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture (Version Online First). Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 7(1), 7–50. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.8897.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Manuscripts #Palaeography #Hebrew #Writing #Academia #Academics
🔴 **Isaac Newton’s wealth ‘intimately connected’ with slavery, author says**
Hannah Devlin
_"During the scientist’s 30-year tenure at the mint, the book outlines, Newton oversaw an influx of gold mined primarily by enslaved Africans in Brazil. And as master of the mint, he took a small fee for every coin that was minted."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #HistSci #IsaacNewton #Slavery #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon
#Image attribute: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Portret_van_Isaac_Newton%2C_RP-P-OB-32.808.jpg.
🔴 🇹🇷 **Ancient Kestros Fountain in Türkiye flows again after 1,800 years**
Fatih Hepokur
_"The fountain, adorned with a reclining figure representing the ancient river god, Kestros, is expected to draw increased tourism, further enhancing the region’s cultural significance."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Türkiye #Turkey #Romans @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The Art and Science of Light in the Middle Ages**
_"Scientists in the Middle Ages built on the science hypothesized by ancient philosophers via experimentation and observation. They created a solid foundation of the study of optics (vision and light), and even began to explore the neuroscience of light, or how light affects how we feel through brain processes."_
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-five seconds.
🔴 📖 **An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559)**
_"Forced baptisms of Jews and Muslims had profound effects across Spanish society, leading famous intellectuals as well as ordinary men and women to rethink their sense of belonging to the Christian community and their forms of religiosity. Thus, in this book, early modern Iberia emerges as a laboratory of European-wide transformations."_
Pastore, S. (11 Nov. 2024). An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004714236 [Accessed 23 November 2024].
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Medieval #Medievodons #EarlyModern #Castile #Iberia #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academics @medievodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (93)
🔴 Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957
"I show how governments of all ideological stripes—from liberal Britain to New Deal America, social-democratic Belgium, Third Republic France, Peronist Argentina, fascist Italy and Japan, and Nazi Germany—all began mandating cartelization in hopes that business cooperation on prices and production could cure the Great Depression’s dislocations."
Hewitt, L. (2024) ‘Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957’, Enterprise & Society, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2024.38.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Business #Cartels #Capitalism #Monopoly #WorldWarII #WorldWar2 #WW2 #GreatDepression #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 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."
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Yorkshire @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺 Map of Hindoostan, Farther India, China, and Tibet.
https://archive.org/details/dr_map-of-hindoostan-farther-india-china-and-tibet-constructed--engraved-4564067 ~via @internetarchive. #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #India #China #Asia #Europe #C19th #19thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
Credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
🔴 🇯🇵 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: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000591.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Japan #Pacific #Europe #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ 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)."
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/11/franco-american-maps/
#Map #Maps #Cartography #C18th #18thCentury #History #Histodon #Histodons #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
