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tkinias

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Assistant professor of history & #histodon. Research race and whiteness in the British Empire (especially Queensland & British Columbia). Teach European & world history with a focus on colonialism & empire.

Previous careers include teaching English as a foreign language and a variety of IT jobs (from Web dev to pulling cables).

Linux geek & SF nerd.

Views my own and probably ill-informed.

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Jennifer , to bookstodon

I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

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@Cara
I really enjoyed that!
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@Jennifer
If you enjoy space opera, then I have to suggest Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice books if you haven’t read them yet. The focus is more on culture (and language and gender) than on tech as such, but there’s some really interesting tech stuff as well (and I’ll be a bit vague because the start of the first book is much cooler if you don’t know where she’s going with things).
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@Jennifer
(incidentally, I really don’t think of Ancillary Justice as military SF, but like the Expanse there’s a lot of armed conflict going on and ex-military characters...)
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@Jennifer
AnnaLinden Weller, who write it under her penname Arkady Martine, is trained as a Byzantine historian, and I think it shows in how she the thinks about culture and empire...
@Cara @bookstodon

CoinOfNote , to histodons
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We haven't yet had anyone guess this week's , it must be a tricky one! It's a worn, but nicely decorative piece, but from where?

Let us know! And don't forget to subscribe to the Coin of Note Newsletter, as it's due out this week with the answer: https://coinofnote.com/newsletter

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@tlariv
It has to be a Spanish coin, though, because León y Castilla didn’t exist as a coin-issuing state in the modern era. That’s too modern a coin for the 1400s.

It looks like the coppers of the late 1700s, though the coloration looks too pale for that (unless that’s just glare in the photo).

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@CoinOfNote
My brain was initially trying to process it as tarnished silver rather than washed-out copper, which confused things for a bit!
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@CoinOfNote
I didn’t mean to suggest that! It’s just interesting how our brains interpret input to correspond to what we think we’re seeing...
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CoinOfNote , to histodons
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Ok people, I did it again - here is a bonus "L" coin! This time featuring beautiful African scenes from an altruistically-founded country, which answers the question: "Did the USA have any African colonies?"

I hope you enjoy this piece, the information and the coin:

https://coinofnote.com/1941-liberia-2-cents/

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Palm tree divides ship and sun within circle flanked by stars above date. Script: Latin Lettering: ★ TWO CENTS ★ 1941

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@CoinOfNote
‘colony’ turns out to be a surprisingly complicated thing to define!
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@economics
hmm–not off the top of my head! the issues are so well-known, at least among scholars of empire, that there aren’t a lot of publications that attempt typology!
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@economics
but as a taste of the complexity of the issue, in the late Victorian British Empire, you had: Crown colonies, Dominions, chartered corporate colonies, protectorates, protected states, Cyprus (legally not a colony but governed as one), Egypt (legally not a protectorate but treated as one), India (sui generis but technically not a colony), etc., all with distinct constitutional statuses but broadly treated as British possessions
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@economics
and 19C theorists (Dilke and IIRC Seeley) argued that ‘colony’ only properly refered to places of white settlement, contrary to what would become official usage in the Empire
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ERBeckman , to histodons
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A bright high school student just asked me for a recommendation for a book about the bronze age. Any @histodons or folx have a recommendation for a public facing book?

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@jqheywood
Yeah, that’s the one that came to mind for me as well. And I find that HIST 101 students (college first-years, so not that far removed from HS) tend to be really fascinated by the Bronze Age collapse.
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eharlitzkern , to histodons
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You know you're a historian when the immigration officer accidentally asks you "Why did the Colonists fight for the British?" on your naturalization civics exam, and you catch yourself before launching into a discussion about the Colonists fighting for the British and instead ask her to please repeat the question, and then you bungle the answer like a nervous freshman because your professional self and your immigrant self are colliding inside your head.
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@eharlitzkern
Oh, I can imagine!

They’re basically looking for the opposite—“it’s complicated!”—of what we’re trying to teach our students.
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CitizenWald , to medievodons
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Loss of another major : Robert Chazan, pioneer of .

https://www.jta.org/2024/02/13/obituaries/robert-chazan-87-nyu-scholar-of-medieval-jewry-who-helped-build-field-of-jewish-studies

Ironically, I start teaching one of his books tomorrow.

His medieval chapter in our new Routledge History of was an overview of the findings of his 9 influential books

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-History-of-Antisemitism/Weitzman-Williams-Wald/p/book/9781138369443

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@CitizenWald
oh wow... we used his work when I was TAing Jewish history courses many years ago...
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dbellingradt , to histodons German
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The 4 stages of academic writing illustrated in 1616 with the help of the Evangelists. @histodons

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@dbellingradt @franco_vazza @histodons
and thus a new heresy was born

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Something that’s been nagging at me all day: A discussion with a parent about their teen’s belief that history classes are a waste of time—not because the kid isn’t interested in history, but because they believe that they can learn all they need to know about the Roman Empire from YouTube videos far more efficiently than by taking classes.

There’s so much misunderstanding of what history is about baked in there that I don’t even know where to start.

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