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🔴 🎥 **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
Since the fifth century of the common era every imperial hegemon has tried to avoid the fate that befell the Roman Empire.
#History #Imperialism #Imperium #Colonisation #Colony #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: https://doi.org/10.25035/irj.07.01.06
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Culture #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 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, https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-3-9-2021, 2021.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Map #Maps #Cartography #Ancient #Phoenicia #Lebanon #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Greeks #RomanEmpire #History #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🌍 🎥 Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1600 to 1750: Early Modern Balance of Power
The Burning Archive
#Video length: forty-four minutes and thirty-five seconds.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Colonisation #Colonization @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 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._
🔗 https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-951-51-8582-2.html
#Ancient #Assyriology #History #Histodon #Histodons #NearEast #Arabs #Arabia #MiddleEast #Asia #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🌍 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."
🔗 https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/food-insecurity-west-africa-origins-colonialism/
#Essay #Anthropology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Colonialism #Food #Africa @anthropology @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 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."
#BookReview #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Culture #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📖 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. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwtcsk.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Classics #Ancient #Antiquity #Greek #Philosophy #HistSci #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @philosophy @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (92)
🔴 📖 “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)....."
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Ancient #History #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia @bookstodon
🔴 🏴 🇮🇪 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, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae210.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Ireland #Colonialism #Empire #Imperialism #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 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). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-024-09244-0
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Economics #Nepotism #Universities #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @economics
🔴 🗺️ 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."
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-map-that-changed-the-middle-east-1916/
#Map #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #MiddleEast #Asia @histodon @histodons
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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