Alex Levine

Miloš Jovanović - Cities of Dust and Mud

Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920

À paraître en juin aux Stanford UP

I am happy to share my Past & Present (@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) article (available in Open Access). It examines what happened to the "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 and finds much post-Ottoman legal continuity. (1)

It's #MosseWednesday! 🎉 Congratulations to Catherine Tatiana Dunlop for winning @historians.org's George L. Mosse Prize in European Intellectual and Cultural History for her new book, The Mistral: A Windswept History Of Modern France. 🎉

#europeanstudiesatuwmadison #UWHistdept
#AHA26

"The University of Virginia (UVA) invites applications and nominations for the Donald Black Professor in Holocaust Studies....The University seeks a scholar of international stature...." etc. etc.
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This will be a great position for someone.

Chronik des Faschismus, anti-fascist newsletter published in Berlin in August 1923

Did you know that the first international antifascist news bulletin was called "Chronik des Faschismus", published in Berlin - below the cover from the very first issue, August 1923. For the full background story, see: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

Happy to have contributed a review of Liliane Stadler's excellent book on Swiss diplomacy during the Soviet-Afghan War to the latest H-Diplo Roundtable. Other great contributions by Timothy Nunan, Sandra Bott, Vassily Klimentov and Robert Nichols.

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From the current issue: “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879”

by Adam Mestyan (‪@harvard.edu‬)

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Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent by Kim Bowes. A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy.

Surviving Rome by Kim Bowes presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.

Out Nov 4 (6 Jan UK pub). Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#AncientRome

Thrilled to share that my book The Interpreters is out!
It explores how Britain engaged with the politics of Southeastern Europe—national questions, federations, and minority rights—and how those debates echoed from the Balkans to Ireland.
🔗 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526160133/

Empire in the Soil: Superphosphate and the British and French Imperial Manufacture, 1914-1937 « History# « Cambridge Core Blog The history of European imperial agriculture has often been told through the lens of technological innovation, such as the development of the agricultural automotive industry or the application of adv...

📣 New Voices continues with a blog from Rosie Charles, @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.

Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.

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Cover of "Unbequeme Erinnerer: Emigrierte Historiker in der westdeutschen und US-amerikanischen NS- und Holocaust-Forschung, 1945–1998," by Anna Corsten

Cover of "Encountering Empire: African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900–1939," by Elisabeth Engel

Titles available in #OpenAccess from our "Transatlantische historische Studien" series (Steiner Verlag) include "Unbequeme Erinnerer" (Corsten, 2023) and "Encountering Empire" (Engel, 2015) biblioscout.net/series/THS

This article – arising from an ERC-funded project on the lived experiences of dictatorship – explores the development of and approaches to the history of everyday life under repressive political systems, presenting the historiographical, conceptual, and contextual points of contact, synergy, and divergence between historians working in and on Europe, Southern Africa, and Latin America. As a historiographical review article, this piece provides both a critical assessment of and novel intervention in these respective literatures, making the case for ‘decentring’ European histories and historiographies, to encourage greater engagement and collaboration between those working on different historical and geographical contexts.

📣Out now on #firstview!

Nathaniel Andrews, Kate Ferris & Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (all @standrewshist.bsky.social) on 'Writing Histories of Everyday Life in Authoritarian Regimes, from Europe to the Global South'

#Everyday #History #Geography #Politics

👉Read OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It looks like he has about two inches of fluff, you’re very lucky!

Lynx is getting very wide!

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Matching and Mismatching Times in the Fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in Marine Ecosystems as Seen Through the Lens of Architecture, 1887–1927.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author, issue, and access information: “André Tavares and Alice Nouvet,” “Volume 39, Issue 5 (2025),” and “Open Access Article.”

“Matching and Mismatching Times in the Fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in Marine Ecosystems as Seen Through the Lens of Architecture, 1887–1927” by André Tavares & Alice Nouvet is the second article featured in Issue 39.5, a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”

‘Peacemaker’ by Thant Myint-U review

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s by Thant Myint-U captures the optimism and ambition of Burma’s bridge between worlds.

✍️ John Sidel reviews the recent #history book

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Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature Children’s literature is never a peripheral segment of culture.

" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abun­dant gifts as an author, her exhaus­tive research, and ele­gant writ­ing ele­vate her book above its sub­ject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...

Next week we look forward to hosting Prof. Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin) for the 2025 Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour. She will be giving her talk "Urban Seasonalities: Time, Culture, and the Environment in Summer Resorts and Winter Cities around 1900 and Today" at 4 universities in Canada

Legacies of British Rule: Colonialism, Statehood, and Nationalist Civil War by Matthew Lange

In Legacies of British Rule, Matthew Lange explores the relationship between colonial pluralism and nationalist civil war in former British colonies.

Now available, explore a free sample of this insightful book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

How Fitness Conquered the World (and What It Still Teaches Us) Ever wondered why gyms look the same in Dublin, Delhi, and Detroit? My new book When Fitness Went Global (Bloomsbury, out next month) traces how nineteenth-century ideas about strength, health, and di...

How Fitness Conquered the World (and What It Still Teaches Us)

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On advance access: "The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era"

by Andrew Denning (@kuhistorydept.bsky.social)
and Heidi J S Tworek (University of British Columbia)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Writing a Global History of the Second World War by Taking Japan Seriously

How can we write a truly global history of WWII?

Join Sheldon Garon & Sebastian Conrad at the DIJ Forum on Oct 14 (18:30 JST / 11:30 CEST) – onsite @dijtokyo.org or online.
Final event of our series #TheEndsofWar.

👉 dij.tokyo/globalhistory

#DIJForum #WWII #GlobalHistory #Japan

Very pleased to share an article I wrote for @conteurohistory.bsky.social based on my research on the Russian brigades sent to the Macedonian front during #WW1. Drawing on French and Russian archives, I try to explain why #Russia sent troops on such a distant front. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene* Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Framing the First World War This innovative approach to the history of World War I looks at ways in which military actors saw and perceived war, and how that exerted a significant influ...

We are thrilled with the collection & are incredibly grateful to our contributors for their fantastic chapters, including @sdanisimova.bsky.social @vandawilcox.bsky.social @lmhalewood.bsky.social @yanikdag.bsky.social & more!

Check out the contents & praise 👇
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I'm also incredibly excited (and feel quite humbled) about this prize! Thanks so much Dominique for sharing. For those who are interested, P&P's very kind editors have made the article open access for the next three months:

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Orchestrating Power by Nathan K. Finney | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure...

Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!

Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The 1922 General Election Reconsidered - University of London Press The General Election of 15 November 1922 was a pivotal election in British political history. As parties adjusted to peacetime conditions and an electoral system changed forever by the enfranchisement...

We’re delighted that the first volume in our new series of short monographs on policy-relevant historical topics has been published @uolpress.bsky.social. Warmest congratulations to its author Dr Harry Bennett @plymuni.bsky.social. You can read it now on open access. uolpress.co.uk/book/the-192...