@bluehistory.bsky.social
Digging through Mediterranean history. We love it all: the plow, the fishing net, the bandit's knife and the wedding contract. A little music as well.
Happy Smallpox Eradication Day to all who celebrate. (And seriously, shouldn't we all?)
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Cover of The Gates of the Sea
I love it when my friends publish books and send me a copy. Here are four great ones I got this year:
1) The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe by @lunavives.bsky.social with @columbiaup.bsky.social
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-gat...
Book cover of Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq by Zainab Saleh
Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s.
https://ow.ly/BktL50XG3X9
¡Primer seminario DIPLOINMED-Mentidero de la Villa! Javier Irigoyen (University of Illinois) hablará en el IH-CSIC el martes 16 a las 12 sobre "Músicos moriscos itinerantes (1492-1614)". Online en conecta.csic.es/rooms/rub-iy...
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La recension
Dans l' #Indice de décembre, il est question des Mediterranei. Giovanna Fiume nous pose aussi quelques questions à @mathieugrenet.bsky.social et moi (sur Braudel, sur l'Espagne, sur les religions, etc.). La traduction italienne donne une (belle) seconde vie au livre.
👉 www.viella.it/download/856...
Alonso de Córdoba: Información y abastecimientos para Orán:
www.archivodelafrontera.com/archivos/alo...
Pasado el verano de 1543, los abastecimientos vuelven a ser la preocupación principal para los oraneses; la razzia del 9-10 de octubre había tranquilizado a la gente, de momento...
Bienvenido el invierno, la época más oscura y fría del año, como
dejan muy claro las criaturas que la pueblan. Entre ellas el Krampus, que aparece la noche entre el 5 y el 6 de diciembre, durante la
Krampusnacht o «noche de Krampus» … 🧵👹❄️
[1/10] La recherche montre que la peste noire résulte d’une conjonction climatique, commerciale et sociale. Des éruptions volcaniques ont refroidi le climat, ruiné les récoltes et déclenché des importations de grains qui ont favorisé l’arrivée de la maladie. #HGGSP #ClimateHistory
07.12.2025 08:18 — 👍 26 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 3il ya une bio de Pierre "le Grand" en BD??? mais on la mérite cette invasion!
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New episode drops tomorrow 📚📚
Reuben Silverman on “The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60” (@universitypress.cambridge.org)
Stay tuned 👇👇
turkeybooktalk.com
turkeybooktalk.substack.com
A lengthy and detailed paper by Ragip Soylu and Levent Kemal on the spectacular transformation of Ahmed al-Sharaa, which highlights in particular the key role played by Turkey (and specifically the MIT).
www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/sy...
I've discussed this sort of geographic determinism before,
It appeals to a specific type of Hegelian-style reductionist, who uses pseudo-scientific language not to understand African history, but to deny its existence
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Acemoglu in Kongo
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/acemoglu-i...
İsmet Akça’nın derlediği “Türkiye Siyaseti Dönemler Aktörler Meseleler” kitabına yazdığım “Modern Türkiye’nin İnşasında Sınıf Meselesi, Sermaye ve Burjuvazi” adlı makaleye aşağıdaki linkten ulaşabilirsiniz. 👇 @ismetakcagdlr
academia.edu/145318383/Mode…
La traduction du livre de Mohamed Naeem par Victor Salama vient de paraitre. J'ai eu le plaisir d'écrire une courte préface qui essaie d'en restituer quelques enjeux.
08.12.2025 19:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The effort reverberated around German frontlines. Russia complained. A Lufthansa Ju 90 was shanghaied. KG40 FW Kondors were used but their engines couldn't stand sand. The night flying school was ordered to Greece. Luftwaffe command scraped through the bottom of the barrel, and it was only 1941.
05.12.2025 16:17 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1785 years ago, the Mongols crushed Kyiv and its Kiptchak allies thus setting a whirpool of events that would over the following century dominate the history of the Eastern Mediterranean, starting with the capture of a young Baybars. Read @nicmorton.bsky.social's excellent Mongol Storm for more.
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🔊 RADIO | El castillo de #Monzón va mucho más allá del paso de los caballeros templarios. Es una fortaleza con más de 1000 años de historia que te contamos en el nuevo episodio de nuestro programa en @aragonradio.bsky.social. Pincha en el enlace y no te lo pierdas.
#Historia | #Aragón |
Me paso por aquí con la #Aragoturra de esta semana, que nos viene en formato podcastil.
Y esta vez hablo de una fecha que escuece mucho en la memoria aragonesa: el 20 de diciembre de 1591, el día en que Juan de Lanuza y Urrea, el Justicia de Aragón, fue ajusticiado ⚔️
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Why is this good news? Canada has an interest in contributing to Syria's reconstruction, working with its allies and partners. The challenges are massive, but these sanctions acted as major obstacles.
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“Assad, who escaped to Russia last December, is largely resigned to exile in Moscow, say four people close to the family. But other senior figures from his inner circle, including his brother, have not come to terms with losing power.” www.reuters.com/investigatio...
06.12.2025 04:49 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Treize Allemands de l'Est furent abattus entre 1980 et 1989 en tentant de franchir le Mur de Berlin. Chacun d'eux fit la Une des journaux.
Quarante-quatre Palestiniens ont été tués ces deux dernières années en tentant de sauter le Mur de Cisjordanie, et ça n'a même jamais fait une brève.
Esto es un crimen de guerra:
Israel confisca decenas de piezas arqueológicas en Cisjordania y los traslada a un museo israelí
elpais.com/internaciona...
I should add for more on this - and a particularly important thread on this hypothesis the person to go to is @monicamedhist.bsky.social - who has referred to this being a possible factor in 2020.
05.12.2025 15:33 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I didn't know there was a French theater play about Livornese Jews from the 18th century.
With Shakespear and Marlow, that makes at least a trilogy about the early modern port jews
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"Transitions politiques et mobilités en Méditerranée orientale (XIXe et XXe siècles)"
Ça a l'air super intéressant mais c'est aussi une façon bien timorée de parler de nettoyade ethniques à répétition.
Au cas où, vous ayez besoin de bonnes nouvelles aujourd'hui: un nouveau médicament anti-malaria semble sur le point de considérablement étoffer l'arsenal de ceux qui luttent contre le plus vieil adversaire de l'humanité.
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It’s kind of grimly symbolic how easily Hamas took out Israel’s top proxy in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
“‘This is our land, and I make the rules here’ Over the past year, settlers have built a record number of outposts — small encampments often made of prefabricated homes — according to an Israeli military official.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/w...
Opening page to Marshall et al., Last-millennium volcanic forcing and climate response using SO2 emissions, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-161-2025.
El Chichon has been ruled out for the 1345. Here's what Marshall et al. 2025 have to say re IDs: "Most eruptions in the last millennium are not attributed to specific volcanoes (of 127 identified eruptions between 800 and 1890 CE, only 30 have been confidently assigned to the volcano of origin)."
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