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🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016
_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._
Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2362250.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #WorldHistory #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Empire #Imperialism #Education #Learning #Textbooks #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016
_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._
Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2362250.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #WorldHistory #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Empire #Imperialism #Education #Learning #Textbooks #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
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Happy #BookshopDay to those who celebrate. And especially to those in #SouthLondon
Nice to see the #BBC has actually made it across the river:
'Phubbing' is a new word I learnt today. It denotes the practice of ignoring a companion for an electronic device such as a mobile phone.
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On this day in 1914: Jonas Salk, pioneered 1st safe & effective polio vaccine #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech
🔴 AI will add to the e-waste problem. Here’s what we can do about it.
"Depending on the adoption rate of generative AI, the technology could add 1.2 million to 5 million metric tons of e-waste in total by 2030, according to the study, published today in Nature Computational Science."
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/28/1106316/ai-e-waste/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #STEM #Technology #Tech #Waste @ai
@anders I have asked this same question before; however, I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer.
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#OTD in 1726.
The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre is published. Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it".
@ChrisMayLA6 I think the echo chamber of right wing media also plays a part for many low information voters. They might not particularly care for policy considerations around the economy; however, they are politically tribal and want their side to win at all costs.
@tkinias Just an added bonus being able to turn a profit out of the situation.
@tkinias I think you may be onto something about the most vociferous voices in favour of the move are those that have the access and the means to gold-plated health insurance cover.
@tkinias A system that some would like to introduce in the UK.
🔴 🇳🇴 Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga
"Here we apply palaeogenomic analysis to human remains excavated from a medieval well at the ruins of Sverresborg Castle in central Norway. In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains."
Ellegaard, M.R. et al. (2024) 'Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga,' iScience, p. 111076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111076.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Paleobiology #Paleogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Norse #Norway #History #Europe #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology @archaeodons
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This paper disagrees: No impact of geopolitics on energy prices https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988324006935 @energyecon
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Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
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@undefined @cdarwin More importantly did it cut into profits?
🔴 Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia
"The thesis of this paper is that such paraphrases of Newton’s First Law are all incorrect, because the law, as Newton stated it, is not just a description of the motion of force-free bodies. It is in fact a stronger, more general principle, constraining the motion of all bodies."
Hoek, D. (2023) ‘Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia’, Philosophy of Science, 90(1), pp. 60–76. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2021.38.
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Large scale watermarking of #AI text generated by #LLM
We need this everywhere, including #academia! 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scalable watermarking for iden...
🔴 📖 How does reading non-fiction books help you to understand the world around you?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #EBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_01.JPG
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #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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