Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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📖 **The Nuremberg Chronicle : A Masterpiece of the Incunable Period**
**Nazi Human Experiments Still Influence Medicine Today**
"_A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research?_"
🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-human-experiments-still-influence-medicine-today/a-73742634.
#History #Science #HistSci #Medicine #Research #Nazi #Germany @science
📖 **Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem**
"_Across an array of languages and archives, from textual and artistic to material and archaeological, Kedar maps the contours of the kingdom's culture or, more accurately, its cultures. The Kingdom of Jerusalem was small, but the diversity of its population had no counterpart anywhere in the medieval West_"
#Culture #History #Histodons #Medieval #Jerusalem #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🎙️ 🇺🇸 📖 **Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)**
"_While historians have generally acknowledged that patriot leaders assembled in response to postwar economic chaos, the threat of popular insurgencies, and the inability of the states to agree on how to fund the national government, Timothy Messer-Kruse suggests that scholars have discounted Americans' desire to compel Britain to return fugitives from slavery as a driving force behind the convention._"
🔗 https://megaphone.link/NBNK8598948933.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Slavery #USA #US #UnitedStates #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodons
🇯🇵 **“Orient Calls”: Anglophone Travel Writing and Tourism as Propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1941**
"_This essay argues that Western orientalism is radically repurposed in many of these texts to support Japanese not European imperialism, presenting a benign, pacific image of Japan and empire as a convenient but exotic travel site, which either occludes or naturalizes the war in line with official propaganda aims._"
ELLIOTT, Andrew. “‘Orient Calls’: Anglophone Travel Writing and Tourism as Propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1941.” Japan Review, no. 33 (2019): 117–42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26652978.
#History #Histodons #Orientalism #Travel #Tourism #Writing #Imperialism #Empire #Colonialism #Propaganda #Japan #Academia @histodons
"_The Seleucid era was the first to introduce continuous counting of years, a system adopted by many societies for over a millenium. Its usage gradually declined during the Middle Ages and early modern period, and today it is preserved only by a small group of Yemenite Jews for religious purposes. This article explores the preservation of this calendar within the Jewish community of Yemen, where it was referred to as the “Era of Contracts” (Minyan ha-Shetarot)._"
Anzi, M. The Seleucid Era and Rhythms of Time Consciousness in Modern Jewish Yemen. JEW HIST (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10835-025-09475-7.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Judaism #Culture #Academia @histodons
🏴 **Crown of England was stolen by James I, historian claims**
"_Tracy Borman of Historic Royal Palaces says Elizabeth I never named an heir, meaning the accession of her cousin to the throne in 1603 was illegal_"
🔗 https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115072574251673988.
#History #Histodons #England #GiftArticle #GiftLink @histodons
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**When Hawaii Almost Became British By Mistake!**
"_The 1843 Paulet Affair, when Britian briefly took over the kingdom of Hawaii...by mistake!_"
#Video length: twenty-one minutes and one second.
🇬🇧 💀 **How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists**
"_In research for my forthcoming book on skull collections, I’ve found that Cambridge’s cranial register includes a skull sent from a former student stationed in India. He had plucked it from a cremation site in Bombay despite the outrage of gathered mourners. Brazen grave-robbing and colonial violence were central to the international network that furnished British universities’ skull rooms._"
#History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Phrenology #Universities #ScientificRacism #Racism #Medicine #UK #UnitedKingdom @histodons @science
**Historian finds 17th century will which sparked Shakespeare family row**
📖 🎙️ **Barry Strauss, "Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)**
"_One walks away from his book not just knowing what happened, but with an appreciation for the different voices in the room, those supporting rebellion, those siding with Rome, the local leaders at the time, and the Roman governors and emperors who suppress these rebellions._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/jews-vs-rome.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇯🇵 **Meiji Japan and the “Korean Question”: Settler Colonialism and Pan-Asianism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century**
#History #Histodons #Japan #Asia #C20th #Colonialism @histodons
🇩🇪 **1866 Johnson Map of Prussia, Germany**
"_This is Johnson and Ward’s 1866 map of Prussia, Germany. Prussia attained its greatest importance in the 18th and 19th centuries when it dominated northern Germany politically, economically, and in population._"
#Image attribution: Alvin Jewett Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1866_Johnson_Map_of_Prussia,_Germany_-_Geographicus_-_Prussia-johnson-1866.jpg.
#History #Histodons #Prussia #Germany #C19th #Maps #Cartography #PublicDomain @histodons
**Did the Romans Do The 'Roman Salute'**
🇮🇨 **Is Guanche Berber?**
"_This paper analyses the lexical and morphological data available in preserved samples of Guanche, and concludes that features shared with Berber are better explained through borrowing resulting from cultural contact, rather than a close genetic relationship between Guanche and Berber._"
Brook, Z. (2025) “Is Guanche Berber?”, Studia Orientalia Electronica, pp. 1–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.23993/store.147042.
#History #Guanche #CanaryIslands #Languages #Linguistics #Academia @linguistics
**The Hoax of Semi-Freedom in Babylonia**
"_Declaring dependent groups, such as non-priestly temple personnel or foreign deportees settled on royal land, to be “semi-free,” despite being qualified to own and bequeath property, live in families, and perform state duties, limits the number of “really free” individuals considerably, basically, to male heads of wealthy households and noble descent only._"
Wunsch, C. (2025) The Hoax of Semi-Freedom in Babylonia. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Vol. 12 (Issue 1), pp. 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1515/janeh-2024-0021.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Ancient #Babylonia #Slavery #Manumission #Freedom #Hoax #Academia @histodons
🇪🇸 🇵🇹 **1862 Johnson Map of Spain and Portugal**
#Image attribution: Johnson, A. J., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1862_Johnson_Map_of_Spain_and_Portugal_-_Geographicus_-_SpainPortugal-j-62.jpg.
🇦🇺 **1855 Colton Map Of Australia**
#Image attribution: J. H. Colton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1855_Colton_Map_of_Australia_-_Geographicus_-_Australia-colton-1855.jpg.
🇬🇧 🇫🇷 **Mitchell Map - A map of the British and French dominions in North America,...; 1757**
#Image attribution: John Mitchell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitchell_Map-06full2.jpg,
#History #UK #UnitedKingdom #France #America #Maps #Cartography
📖 **A Yarn as Old as Civilization: The Braided History of “Rope”**
"_Rope follows the story of an essential tool of humanity, and traces rope’s uses from the earliest examples of civilization. It’s a great introduction to rope, and draws on some entertaining examples to provide the subject with a boost of excitement._"
🔗 https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/15/a-yarn-as-old-as-civilization-the-braided-history-of-rope/.
#History #Histodons #Review #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs 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.
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