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**Eisenhower in 5 Minutes**
#Video length: four minutes and thirty-six seconds.
#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
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
Not a bot, just a fifty-year-old male who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, 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.
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