@mbrescius.bsky.social
Professor @unibas.ch, PI of Consolidator Grant Global Social and Economic History, Resources, History of Science, Environmental History and Imperialism, Euro-Asian Entanglements
In this paper, I examine the historical significance of the Charduar rubber plantation in Assam—the world’s first large-scale, scientifically managed rubber plantation. I trace its pivotal role in shaping the shift of rubber cultivation from South Asia to SE Asia and other tropical frontiers...
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... illuminating how it once stood at the center of global plantation experimentation. I also ask why this pioneering site ultimately faded into obscurity, despite its early prominence in the international rubber industry. Fully OPEN ACCESS HERE: sunypress.edu/Books/P/Plan...
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Job alert: 3 fully funded PhDs in history at Uni Bern! Join an inspiring project on food, agriculture & global capitalism, 1870–1930s. Apply by Nov 10
09.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social — it’s been an absolute pleasure teaming up on this. Holding an Anthropocene conference in the middle of yet another heatwave feels almost too on-the-nose… Proof, if any were needed, of just how urgent this work really is!
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The wonderful Tehila Sasson, Sugata Bose, Zaib un Nisa Aziz, and Sven Beckert during the concluding roundtable of a superb international conference. Vibrant discussions about the field and future of global histories of capitalism & the environment. Thanks to all participants!
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I’m beyond excited for this conference: “New Global Histories of Capitalism & the Environment”! It also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard. Stay tuned for the publication
02.06.2025 14:27 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1If you're in the Basel area, come to the book launch of Corey Ross's Liquid Empire (Princeton 2024) tonight, in conversation with the wonderful Julia Adeney Thomas. At 6pm in the Orangerie of the Institute for European Global Studies: europa.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles...
12.05.2025 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This looks fantastic, couldn't recommend it more.
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Job alert! We're hiring @unibas.ch !
📢 1 fully-funded PhD position (4 years) in my @snsf-ch.bsky.social Consolidator project "The Battle of Materials"! Spread the word:
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
15.04.2025 20:30 — 👍 45567 🔁 14536 💬 965 📌 483Presenting a new project with the wonderful Fredrik A. Jonsson (Chicago U) at the New Anthropocene Centre in Stockholm today -- come along if you're in the area to discuss "The Long Acceleration: Rethinking the Historical Causes of the Planetary Emergency". www.kth.se/anthropocene...
19.03.2025 08:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very excited about the upcoming conference on "Asian Borderlands: Cross-Border Exchange and Extraction" with a fabulous line-up of speakers from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Taking stock of a dynamic interdisciplinary field and identifying future directions and new departures!
22.07.2024 10:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Intriguing conference in Rio de Janeiro in mid-March 2024: "Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism". Call for papers now open, and scholars from the Global South are especially encouraged to apply: wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/news/call-pa...
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