Koji Yamamoto

東京カレッジGHCでのChie Ikeyaさんのブックトーク、とても面白かった。　InterAsian intimacies across race, religion, and colonialism (2024)についてで、本の一部をご本人が読み上げて解説を加えるというスタイルだった。小説などではよくある手法だけれど、研究書の文脈ではとても新鮮に感じた。

An interior view inside the teahouse overlooking a doorway, corridor, and window

A box involving various elements on Japanese food

Yesterday I participated at a workshop in a traditional teahouse in the Edo-era Hama-rikyū gardens with scholars from UTokyo & KyotoU. Brilliant range of talks - from 17thC naval contracting & confessional co-existence to a 20thC asylum in Peking & the 1999 introduction of the pill in Japan.

A photo of Akamon, a historic red gate

A photo of two figures walking through an archway

A very green tree from below

Today was my first day @utokyoofficial.bsky.social as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. I am grateful to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for the nomination & to colleagues at the JSPS & UTokyo for supporting my move to Japan, especially @kyamamoto.bsky.social. I am very excited to begin my new work!

Ruthless - Yale University Press London A revelatory new history of Britain’s industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result o...

The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development.

yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Some news: in 2026 I'll take over as Editor of Renaissance Studies. It's a journal that means a great deal to me and which occupies a uniquely important position in the interdisciplinary study of the early modern world. With our new Associate Editor, Dr Elizabeth Petcu, I can't wait to get started!

The call poster. Follow the link for details.

Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July!
See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social

Thanks Eva! I'm currently working on a few things, including London soap boilers and washerwomen and the constitutional crisis, and also on state-interventions on essential work like cooking, washing, heating and food preservation.

This is really cool:

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

こんにちは！勉強になるとても良い会でしたね！

良い会でしたね！

今の世の中が生きづらい原因の一つは、前の世代の人たちが十分に苦情を訴えなかったこと。

OMG!! The ESTC is back!!!!

datb.cerl.org/estc/

Hello colleagues! I'll be on sabbatical, and plan to be in London / Amsterdam between October 2025 and September 2026. Please let me know if there are places where I can share my ongoing research / advocacy work with you. I'd love to see if I can come and see my old friends and meet new ones.

Thanks Dave!! We are thrilled to get Tom onboard in our team in June! It will be fun.

If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians

Getting pretty tired of the “future historians will say X about this time.”

I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!

来週の月曜日4時50分から本郷で研究発表をします。テーマは「No more rigid monopoly? チャールズ一世親政期ウェストミンスター石鹸会社再訪、1633-1637」
ハイブリッド開催です。
www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/wor...

As of April 11, more than 840 international students and recent graduates at 160 universities and colleges around the US have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, per @insidehighered.com's count: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such.

リーディングクラブ、今年度一回目。

The Economic Consequences of State Capture Oligarchs are warping markets and corrupting economies around the world.

Superb analysis from Liz on state capture/kleptocracy in the US and globally.

We need to talk about the related concepts of "state capture" (@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social), "kleptocracy" (@tenaprelec.bsky.social) and "Poligarch" (@balint.bsky.social)! 1/2

www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...

A book cover showing a man on a bizarrely styled float in the sea trying to take a measurement with a sextant. Another sailor sits waiting next to him in a small rowing boat. The title of the book is The Board of Longitude: science, innovation and empire, written by a group of authors.

10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude!

All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!

Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

'Satire on the South Sea Bubble; a man imprisoned behind bars is surrounded by a medley of cards and ballads each of which carries engraved texts; at bottom right is an anamorphosis. For a full descrption see BMSat; later re-issue. 1720 Etching' British Museum 354195001

It's an apt week to remember the South Sea Bubble of 1720. And for anyone thinking of teaching comparative financial crises next year, a reminder of the fab resources and datasets on the Bubble compiled by the Yale School of Management: som.yale.edu/centers/inte...

論文　from:jun-naibzade.bsky.social

と検索すればオスマン帝国史関連の最新論文情報が収集できます。

新刊　from:jun-naibzade.bsky.social

だと新刊書の情報になります。fromを入れなくても「新刊　osmn」て洋書が、「新刊
osmn」でトルコ語の本が検索できます。

いずれも私の勝手な基準で選んでますが、できるだけ網羅的になるようにしています。

Oh wow! Thank you so much for these. I'll check them out!

Thanks for drawing my attention this work! I'll check it out!

The course is taught in English. Thanks in advance!