@jamborg.bsky.social
History of science PhD candidate at Uppsala Uni working on animal breeding and natural history in 18th-century France
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
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JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
It was apparently left by a retired professor. It’s been taken care of by the department and I hope it will end up in the university library. So don’t bother pulling a furniture lift up to my office window, if anybody had that idea.
28.10.2025 10:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When you randomly find a first edition of Mirabeau’s L’ami des hommes in an open bookshelf with leftover books in the corridor of your department…
28.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
“what happens if we also reconnect with the mule? What can mules teach us about the black history of land and violence in the United States?”
A terrific piece of #envhist on mules, labor, and how “empire doesn’t always win” from @roguechieftan.bsky.social
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
Screenshot from the website of the European Declaration
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
Absolutely essential reading for all historians of science
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🚨 #OpenAccess 🚨
This article is also available in #English
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#mercantilism #diplomacy #animals #skystorians
Very very happy to announce that the @jhokjournal.bsky.social special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World," edited by Vera Keller, Kely Whitmer, and me, is starting to be published: the first three articles are here, the rest to follow.
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Merci Vincent !
17.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much Fredrik!
17.09.2025 13:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Excellent article from @jamborg.bsky.social about "genetic" mercantilism. Highly recommended
17.09.2025 13:16 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Really honored to be part of this issue! In my article, I study the (failed) attempts to cultivate wheat in Hispaniola during the 16th century. While the West Indies are mostly known for the sugar plantations that made them so important for later colonial empires...
25.08.2025 10:56 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Gravure des moutons mérinos devant la bergerie nationale de Rambouillet (Archives nationales)
'Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de #races animales, diplomatie du mouton et #géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle'
par @jamborg.bsky.social (Uppsala)
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#skystorians #race #climate #merinos 🐑
« Capitalisme, démocratie, colonialisme, Europe, comment hérite-t-on du passé ? »
Dialogue « Le présent de l’histoire » entre Antoine Lilti et moi
À 11h30 le samedi 18 octobre aux Franciscaines de Deauville à l’occasion des 150 ans de Flammarion
Version française disponible ici :
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Combining perspectives from economic, agricultural, political, and cultural history with history of science, this article uses the concept of animal mercantilism to open up the geopolitical stakes inherent in understandings of animals, race, and climate.
12.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Note from the breeder Guerrier – including a wool sample demonstrating the high quality of a flock of sheep recently smuggled into France from Lincolnshire – sent to the French intendant of finances, Trudaine de Montigny, who supported several similar projects, around 1770. Archives nationales, F/10/515-516.
The French government was however determined to overcome their country’s weak wool production. Collaborating with breeders, smugglers, diplomats and naturalists, state officials sought ways to import breeds – often through illicit means – that could improve their national sheep population.
12.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
”All Persons concerned in Exporting of live Sheep or Lambs, on Conviction are liable to One Year’s Imprisonment, and at the End thereof to have their left Hand cut off, and nailed up in the openest Part of the Market nearest the Place where the Offence is committed. And for the second Offence are adjudged Felons, and to suffer Death as in Cases of Felony.” Abstract of several Acts of Parliament, now in force, to prevent the exportation of wool, sheep, &c, 1737
In the early modern period, Britain and Spain were famed for their fine wool production. They made sure to protect the advantage that their superior breeds gave them by totally banning the exportation of live sheep.
Sheep smugglers could face capital punishment in both countries! (See image)
Woollens constituted the most important industrial product in early-modern Europe. While the textile trade and manufacturing industry are well-studied historical topics, the importance of sheep breeding in the political economy of wool is much less known.
12.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Engraving of merinos in front of the Bergerie nationale de Rambouillet. Archives nationales, 20160285-648-649.
This article examines how animal breeds came to be seen as national resources in the early modern period, amidst European imperial competition and changing conceptions of race, breed and climate.
It particularly focuses on how governments protected – and stole – sheep breeds in the 18th century.
📢 New publication!
”Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France” in @annales.ehess.fr is now available OA🐑🌍
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Of course, I’ll send it right away!
09.09.2025 20:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just stumbled upon this post when I was looking for something else. Have you seen the dissection report by Mertrud, Daubenton and Vicq d’Azyr in the MNHN archives (Ms. 219)? I have it photocopied and would be happy to share if still relevant.
09.09.2025 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Lien qui fonctionne :
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Gravure des moutons mérinos devant la bergerie nationale de Rambouillet (Archives nationales)
”Mercantilisme animal” est désormais disponible sur Cairn. Ce lien donne accès gratuit à l’article jusqu’au 5 octobre :
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@annales.ehess.fr
Continuing now with colonial climates & environments chaired by @lindaaburnett.bsky.social
Speakers:
@davidemartino.bsky.social
Wenrui Zhao
@jamborg.bsky.social
It’s going to be about water, mines and cattle consecutively but maybe also connecting?
#eseh2025
#envhist
Ravi de découvrir que le @mondediplomatique.bsky.social de ce mois propose aussi un bel article de @raphaelmago.bsky.social sur la géopolitique animalière ! 🐪
23.08.2025 08:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The English version will appear shortly.
22.08.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cet article paraît dans le double numéro spécial « Animaux et animalités », publié par les @annales.ehess.fr
Une exploration collective des liens entre savoirs, pouvoirs et mondes animaux.
Le sommaire est disponible ici
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annales.hypotheses.org/460
