#100JahreRadio Wie viele Empfangsgeräte gab es 1923? Ich habe Zahlen zwischen wenigen 100 und 10.000 - was ist eine gesicherte bzw. wie begründete Zahl @histodons
@CGdoppelpunkt@histodons@istuetzle IIRC wurden sets zum Selberbauen verkauft. Die Arbeiter-Radio-Bewegung bestand zu Anfang vor allem aus Bastlern, die sich gegenseitig halfen, Geräte selber zu bauen, die sich Arbeiter natürlich zunächst nicht leisten konnten
Palestinians and Jews have been maligning, menacing and murdering each other since the 19th century, writes a documentary filmmaker who grew up in Israel.
For many Jewish Israelis, October 7’s attack was unexpected in the “unimaginable brutality and destruction. Few pictured Hamas wreaking ISIS-style havoc on 20 towns, raping women and murdering children.”
@TheConversationUS@histodons
It’s more like 911 than ISIS because both Bush and Netanyahu had advance warning of an impending massive terror attack and choose to ignore the warnings.
Why did they choose to ignore the warnings and why are both Bush’s (and trump) not in jail?
Because the foolish voters allow it, woefully thinking the fascist warmongers won’t come for them one day…despite the thousands of American families already inexcusably harmed by the failed warmonger response to 911.
@TheConversationUS@histodons
Perhaps it has to do with the observation that (if you’re lucky) hitting an appliance (like a TV or a radio) a second time may temporarily make it work once again. More recently I’ve heard it said about hard drives.
Ok. You've just discovered a magical camcorder that can travel through space and time. It can record high quality sound and video for one hour. You can only use it three times.
I'm looking for literature on the relationship between concepts of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' and local practices in the Global South and/or indigenous communities in the Global North (e.g. First Nations).
Specifically, I'd like to know how 'sustainability' is defined; what forms of knowledge are privileged; and how local practices are described by outsiders (& vice versa).
@lutzray@bojacobs@histodons where they detail the reasons why the US actually thinks it can carry out a nuclear strike on Russia without fear of retaliation: The US THINKS it has sufficiently weakened Russia's ability to respond!
That's the dangerous situation we are in - American hubris !!
C'est la rentrée, et les #Annales arrivent avec un très beau numéro spécial:
➡️ Le fait religieux à l'épreuve du monde
Quatre articles pour explorer l'Inquisition espagnole, un saint jésuite en Inde du Sud, une danse de la conquête dans la Sierra péruvienne, et deux assemblées protestantes en Chine contemporaine.
À quoi sert le #protestantisme dans la #Chine d'aujourd'hui ? En partant d'une longue #ethnographie à Tianjin, Isabelle Thireau restitue comment la Bible peut servir de ressource linguistique à même d'aider à naviguer les incertitudes et inquiétudes du quotidien dans un contexte de rigidités idéologiques du langage disponible dans la Chine du XXIe siècle.
@peterbrown@cat_static@NorCallover@histodons Glory is about the 54th Massachusetts, a Black regiment; Lincoln is about enactment of the 13th amendment. The latter is particularly interesting because although the political figures are of course White, the Black presence is continually, uh, backgrounded.
thoughtful piece by historian @kawulf and archivist Amanda Strauss on the need for us to engage and collaborate with each other #archives#history@histodons
@kawulf@histodons You might be interested in the 2022 National Council on Public History working group created by @sharonmleon (Omeka) & Brenda Gunn (UVA): Records, Reckoning, Repair (archivists and historians).
@ExcessivelyDiverting "Founder Kevin Duffy thinks that a new publisher entering the market is a positive step, but sounds a note of caution. “My concern is that a bigger slice of the publishing pie will go to celebrities who already have huge social media profiles, and further reduce the opportunities of talented but under-represented writers to see their work published.”"
@kerstinsailer@bookstodon@histodons Agreed. I was a local bookstore a few months back and they had callouts on book displays on what was popular on Book Tok. I find this blend of "popular" reading superposes best seller lists. As a former bookseller AND librarian, as long as people are reading and continue to read, that is all that matters to me!
She takes a while to get there, but in the closing paragraph of the last chapter of her ambitious and deeply erudite "Civilization: From Enlightenment Philosophy to Canadian History," Elsbeth Heaman makes a pithy and, in my view, wholly convincing argument that in #Canada (and, I would say, in many other places) we need more #history. #histodons#CdnHist@histodons
@histodons More worth considering from Heaman: “Conservatives look everywhere for the friends versus enemies distinction and use it to concentrate power and wealth amongst their friends. Liberals look for some check on that concentration and some ways to build up alliances. Conservatism shores up property to insulate it against challenges, often calling itself liberal in the process. That's my thesis. Conservatism is entrenched in the material order of the world...”
@histodons "... and liberalism a framework for negotiating with it for purposes of enlargement according to natural sentiments of sympathy and self-protection against domination."
Looking for articles on how access to OCR:ed/full-text digitized newspapers is changing historic research practice. I've found a few Swedish articles (by Pelle Snickars, Johan Jarlbrink, David Larsson Heidenblad) but would like to broaden my reach.
Is Lara Putnam, ”The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” American Historical Review 121, no. 2 (2016) the go-to reference? (not looking specifically for the transnational angle)
@jconnellstryker@histodons@academicchatter I agree the proposals are not all practical. My institution grants terminal MAs but it actively discourages 2-year degrees. We have no indication that taking an additional year (nearly all of our MAs are 1-year) affects employment outcomes, while leading some students to disconnect entirely in the 2nd year, something can lead to failure to finish.
Re: PhD: IMO we need to push for increased packages for all admissions, regardless of external funding.
You would have to ask somebody who wrote for MA in my program how it really felt to do that and then continue on to PhD, but being friendlier to dipping out after 2 years with an MA seems like a good thing to me. Maybe even actively working to encourage (and accept) transfers to finish the PhD elsewhere after a 2-year MA would be a good idea, to encourage broader institutional experience?
At last, it's publication day for the 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' special collection in the Modern Languages Open journal edited with an intro by yours truly -- and all available Open Access.
Allow me to share each paper in this thread as they get published one by one.
First up,
“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain
by David Miranda-Barreiro
Abstract
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. [...] Drawing on studies on state nationalism (Billig 1995) and Spanish nationalism (Taibo 2014, Delgado 2014) this article examines not only Camba’s own views but the response from contemporary scholarship to his texts.
The Picturesque and the Beastly: Wales and the Absence of Welsh in the Journals of Lady’s Companions Eliza and Millicent Bant (1806, 1808)
by Kathryn Walchester
Abstract
[...] The journals written by lady’s companions, Eliza and Millicent Bant, in 1806 and 1808 respectively, present a complicated view, one in which multifarious and often negative versions of Wales compete, but overall where linguistic otherness is not evident. [...] The Bant sisters’ lack of comprehension and their representation of its linguistic otherness is, I suggest, instead played out through a representation of Wales as complex, multifarious and impossible to comprehend. Wales is simultaneously “beastly” and “picturesque”, a place of industry and nature, beauty and squalor.
This leaves me with just my own #introduction to the whole special issue.
Abstract
This introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.
Happy reading, y'alls. (For convenience, I will later post the link to the complete bundle.)