Mark Mazower’s diary of a tumultuous week at Columbia on.ft.com/4aUoGlI

. Sean Gailmard 's Agents of Empire 'demonstrates the imperial origins of arrangements at the core of the American democratic republic - representative assemblies, separation of powers, judicial review.'

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1/6. Now the Institute of Economic Affairs, the right wing think tank that understood economic affairs so well that it inspired Liz Truss’ disastrous mini-budget, is getting in on the act of supporting Kemi Badenoch’s historical denialism.

Let’s look at the ‘argument’ here. It

1/5. I know I’m going on about this a lot but for someone who’s quite invested in historical truth, I think it’s really important to respond now that Kemi Badenoch has unleashed those dogs of culture war, the The Telegraph and @iealondo, by denying the role of colonial exploitation

Wonderful to see Time's Monster (in great company) on the The Standard 's list of 'Best Books about British History to Read in 2024'! Penguin Books UK Casiana Ionita standard.co.uk/shopping/esbes…

Please join our British Studies event on May 16
Stanford History : A talk by Philip Stern on his new book, Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism, 4:30 pm, online & in person. Open to the public! history.stanford.edu/events/empire-…

Today's free article is Linda Colley's 'The difficulties of empire: past, present and future', from the August 2006 issue of 'Historical Research' doi.org/10.1111/j.1468…

One of 12 classic essays from the latest Special Issue academic.oup.com/histres/pages/…

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Lots to unpick in Kemi Badenoch’s latest attempt to deny the effects of colonialism.

Let’s start with where I and other academic specialists agree with her: colonial exploitation does not ‘sufficiently explain’ Britain’s economic trajectory. Most historians would say this is

New MIH Issue: Emma Gattey Emma Gattey examines how Makereti (1872-1930), the second Māori student to enroll at Oxford, deployed anthropological scholarship to critique British imperial discourses about Māori bit.ly/4aHhCZN

I’ve just received the bound proofs of my upcoming book, An African History of Africa, which will be published in April 2024.

Early copies are making their way to reviewers. Please reach out to my publicist Laura Nicol if you would like to read a proof. Ebury Publishing

The most rapidly organised book I've ever edited is at final proof stage. If you want to read accessible essays from some of the best known expert historians about some of the most controversial aspects of Britain's colonial history, instead of listening only to what political

‘When I arrived, I found a letter from Sartre and Beauvoir waiting for me at the hotel. “For security reasons,” the message ran, “the meetings will be held at the home of Michel Foucault.”’

Read Edward Said's encounter with Sartre in the archive: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/…

A new Modern Intellectual History article: 'A Strategic Eurocentrism: The Construction of Ottoman Evolutionism in an Uneven World (1870–1900)' by Daniel Kolland: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Here's a small thing I wrote about leaving academia while still trying to appreciate anthropology. Open access in American Ethnologist: 'A view from another side, or, not just another quit-lit essay' doi.org/10.1111/amet.1…

In today's article, Faridah Zaman reflects on how the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924 sparked a renewed interest in the republican ideal of Islamic political thought.

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'The small wars waged by European empires generated arguments for the legitimacy of state violence that remain in use today. Lauren Benton’s new book, They Called it Peace, finds that the era of gunboat policing anticipated the age of the predator drone.' jacobin.com/2024/04/small-…

好期待這本書！

齊偉先（2024年），《物質、隱喻與信仰──臺灣當代漢人民間宗教生活中的儀式力量》，國立臺灣大學出版中心、中央研究院社會學研究所。
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「宗教社會學長期以來習慣從信仰來定義並理解宗教，忽略了儀式及儀式的物質性具有更多的潛能。」

Interesting thread on the EIC official John Malcolm’s clear-eyed view of British rule in India:

K. J. P. Lowe's Provenance and Possession is a thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy.

Learn more about this thought-provoking book: hubs.ly/Q02pSj5L0

Forthcoming: 'The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century' by Richard Reid
'A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialism': press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…