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🔴 🇺🇸 🌎 **Chart: The Average U.S. Tariff Rate (1890-2025)**
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-average-u-s-tariff-rate-since-1890/.
#History #Tariffs #Trade #USA #US #UnitedStates #Data #DataViz
🔴 **Descartes’ Mathematics**
“_In La Géométrie, Descartes details a groundbreaking program for geometrical problem-solving—what he refers to as a “geometrical calculus” (calcul géométrique)—that rests on a distinctive approach to the relationship between algebra and geometry._”
Domski, Mary, “Descartes’ Mathematics”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2025 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), forthcoming URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2025/entries/descartes-mathematics/>.
#Descartes #History #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Algebra #Geometry
🔴 **Year of the Five Emperors**
193 AD: Septimius Severus, Pertinax, Clodius Albinus, Didius Julianus, and Pescennius Niger all claimed the title of Roman emperor.
🔴 **Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria's Path to Empire, 935-745 BC**
“_This book re-examines the historical question of Assyria’s expansion, presenting a novel reconstruction of the early Neo-Assyrian period with the latest data (including new Assyrian kings), detailed regional studies synthesising the newest historical and archaeological findings, and interpretative essays outlining new historical factors._”
Edmonds, A. 2025. Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria’s Path to Empire, 935–745 BC. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111593715.
#OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #History #NeoAssyrian #Assyria #Empire @bookstodon
🔴 🎙️ 📖 **Podcast: After 1177 B.C.**
“_...in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration._”
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-after-1177-bc.
#Audio #Podcast #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🗺️ **1,000 Years Of National Borders In Europe On One Map**
🔗 https://brilliantmaps.com/1000-years-of-national-borders-europe/.
🔴 🇬🇧 **Populism and the Social History of British Anti-Slavery**
Ryan Hanley
“_In the United Kingdom, the abolition of the slave trade and slavery holds a special place in national identity narratives, largely thanks to over a century of celebratory historiography, from the mid-nineteenth century to about the mid-twentieth. While this “Whig tradition” has long since fallen from favor among historians, it enjoys an uncanny afterlife among a certain cross section of right-wing populists._”
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/04/08/populism-and-the-social-history-of-british-anti-slavery/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Populism #RightWing @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of Rome**
“_Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire_”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Climate #IceAge #Romans #RomanEmpire @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇩🇪 🖋 **Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century**
“The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album is dedicated._”
🔗 https://flashbak.com/schonschreibmeister-a-calligraphy-masters-album-from-the-16th-century-461471/.
#History #Books #Calligraphy #Germany #Typography #Fonts #Fraktur #Handwriting #Writing
🔴 ⌨️ **The QWERTY Keyboard Will Never Die. Where Did the 150-Year-Old Design Come From?**
🔴 **Born On This Day: James Mill**
James Mill was born on this day in 1773. A Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist, his major literary achievement was authoring the first history of British India in the English language.
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Mill
#Image attribution: James Mill (1773–1836), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_of_British_India_1817_James_Mill.jpg.
🔴 🇵🇹 **Portugal is not a small country**
“_A journey through the propaganda of Portugal's Estado Novo, as well as some of the most iconic maps of its propaganda production._”
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/portugal-is-not-a-small-country.
#Maps #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Portugal #Europe #Propaganda @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The Vikings in the Eyes of a Frankish Envoy: The Testimony of Count Cobbo (845×850)**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Vikings #Franks #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire**
🔴 **Dialogue Origin: “What Has Been the Impact of the French Revolution?” “It’s Too Early To Tell”**
🔴 📖 **The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation**
Daniel J. Curtin
“_Fabio Toscano, a science writer, lucidly presents not only the solutions of the cubic equation but also the history of the problem and the development of algebra in general from Diophantus, through the Islamic scholars, to Renaissance Italy._”
#Read #Nonfiction #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #History #Maths #Mathematics @bookstodon
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**That Time the Mongol Empire Reunited: The Great Mongol Peace of 1304**
The Jackmeister: Mongol History
#Video length: twenty minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NptfhbiQxA
#History #Histodon #Histodons #MongolEmpire #GenghisKhan #KublaiKhan @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Friedrich List, Excerpt from National System of Political Economy (1841)**
“_A critic of the free-market thinker Adam Smith and his followers, List argued that less developed economies like Germany’s required protective tariffs on manufactured goods to allow their fledgling industries to grow._”
Friedrich List, Excerpt from National System of Political Economy (1841), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-vormaerz-to-prussian-dominance-1815-1866/ghdi:document-354> [March 27, 2025].
#History #Tariffs #Economy #Trade #Economics #Nationalism #Politics #FriedrichList @economics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 📖 **Rot: A History of the Irish Famine**
Kirkus Reviews
“_Scanlan neatly chronicles the history of England’s ever-growing Protestant financial exploitation over the “uncivilized” Catholic Ireland’s poor and their tenant farms._”
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/padraic-x-scanlan/rot-2/.
#Read #Nonfiction #History #Ireland #Éire #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #GB #IrishFamine #Colonialism #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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