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Gregory A. Hargreaves

@bordergroves.bsky.social

Historian of capitalism, environment, & technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of the @hagleycenter.bsky.social. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal.

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Table of contents

In addition to an introductory essay by my co-editors and myself, the Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History table of contents looks like this!

08.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Can we stop putting “Epstein” and “full release” in the same sentence?

08.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Table of contents

Table of contents

In addition to an introductory essay by my co-editors and myself, the Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History table of contents looks like this!

08.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

No person is illegal

27.07.2025 19:38 — 👍 61    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

🙏🏼

08.02.2026 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

MAGA figures are increasingly referring to pro-democracy protests in the USA as a “color revolution” and it is a real tell.

05.02.2026 20:49 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Trump only has to seize ONE ballot box to destroy an entire election.

06.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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a gorilla is standing in the woods surrounded by trees . Alt: a gorilla is standing in the woods surrounded by trees looking interested

Our edited collection is officially in press!

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Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History

Spring 2027

From the University of Pennsylvania Press

06.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 30    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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bugs bunny says nooo while looking at something Alt: bugs bunny says nooo while looking at something
07.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Make the rich a part of your well balanced daily diet.

06.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Make the rich a part of your well balanced daily diet.

06.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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a gorilla is standing in the woods surrounded by trees . Alt: a gorilla is standing in the woods surrounded by trees looking interested

Our edited collection is officially in press!

Look for

Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History

Spring 2027

From the University of Pennsylvania Press

06.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 30    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Trump only has to seize ONE ballot box to destroy an entire election.

06.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

MAGA figures are increasingly referring to pro-democracy protests in the USA as a “color revolution” and it is a real tell.

05.02.2026 20:49 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Is America great yet?

05.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe there should be limits on how people use giant piles of money 🤔

04.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Public Service Announcement

Historians of XYZ do not necessarily love, endorse XYZ.

04.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
a man wears a barrel and pours a drink from his spout

a man wears a barrel and pours a drink from his spout

05.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is down to journalists treating Tweets like news/policy which started a bit more than a decade ago

05.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeehaw!
But let’s be honest. It was Dean’s unapologetic progressivism that sunk him.

05.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

May we all be so lucky 🙏🏼

04.02.2026 22:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Public Service Announcement

Historians of XYZ do not necessarily love, endorse XYZ.

04.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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a man in a sequined suit stands in front of a purple curtain with the words little tuna can above him Alt: a man in a sequined suit stands in front of a purple curtain with the words “little tuna can”

They got me teaching in the chode room, wider than it is tall

04.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s attack on science, research, and education is laying down a Chixulub iridium layer in the historiographies of all academic disciplines that in future years will mark the simultaneous extinction of numerous lines of American intellectual inquiry.

28.07.2025 20:00 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

Remember the good old days? Me neither.
Joke’s on us. There weren’t any.

04.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have assigned an UnEssay and some students have made short documentaries. The assignment fell apart last semester when multiple students turned in genAI slop. Others did spectacularly well. My two cents would be to disallow genAI.

04.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

💯

04.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe there should be limits on how people use giant piles of money 🤔

04.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

That’s the thing about an education, you only get out as much as you put in.

04.02.2026 16:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Teaching a class w 100 students. Did the uni give me a lecture hall? No. An auditorium? No. A real big room? No. It’s three normal size rooms with the partitions removed, making a space one room deep and three rooms wide. They can’t all see or hear me at the same time. How is this supposed to work?

04.02.2026 15:12 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0

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