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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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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
📖 **The Spanish Atlantic World, 1492–1825: From Kingdoms to Colonies to Independence**
"_This wide-ranging study examines the evolution of the Spanish Atlantic World from its inception with the voyages of Christopher Columbus through the period of conquest and expansion in the sixteenth century, the era of consolidation in the seventeenth century, to the reform and renovation of the eighteenth century, culminating in its slow-motion collapse by 1825._"
🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-spanish-atlantic-world-14921825-9780190238827
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🎨 ** The Battle Of Scheveningen**
#Image attribution: Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Scheveningen_(Slag_bij_Ter_Heijde)(Jan_Abrahamsz._Beerstraten).jpg.
#History #Histodons #EarlyModern #UnitedKingdom #UK #Netherlands #Europe #Marine #Art #Painting @histodons
**On the Controversies Behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics**
"_Here I provide brief histories of the origins of US statistics on prices, national income and product, and unemployment to illustrate this story._"
Rockoff, Hugh. “On the Controversies Behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 33, no. 1 (2019): 147–64. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26566981.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Economics #Statistics #Academia @economics
🇪🇸 **Spain Was Different: Tourism Under Franco**
"_How did Spain, Western Europe’s last dictatorship, become one of its most popular tourist destinations?_"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/spain-was-different-tourism-under-franco.
#History #Histodons #Politics #Tourism #Travel #Spain @histodons
🇺🇸 🇲🇽 **US Returns To Mexico Stolen Manuscript Signed By Conquistador Hernan Cortes**
"_With a specific focus on France, Belgium, and Great Britain, this article argues that the revolutions of 1830 were not simply events coincidentally affected by their imperial context, but were themselves transformative of the imperial landscape. They gave a boost to European expansion, ushered in more direct forms of colonial dominion, and initiated an era of heightened trans-imperial co-operation._"
Beatrice de Graaf, Erik de Lange, The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf016, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf016.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism #Empire #C19th #Academia #Academics @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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Joined Nov 2022
