What do you see as the pro's and con's of #documentaries? I'm often not a fan, but want to be. My issues with them, and mostly it comes from I love to learn and want docs to be a starting point, not the end:
Credentials of the experts can be spotty
No sources given
No way to ask follow-up questions
Too much theatrics / reenactment
Not as detailed as a book
Often don't cover the topics I want (social science, #religion, #history, etc)
How did past climate events show up in art? Let’s look at paintings whose artists captured the Little Ice Age and the biggest volcanic eruptions of the nineteenth century, often without really understanding what they were seeing.
And now for an aspect of war that is more overlooked in general education and popular consciousness: the humanitarian efforts. #USA had an interesting position in #WWI, first as a neutral nation, then as a participant. This is a small slice of that.
The connection between #emdiplomacy and trade needs still much more research. Here is a new study on Anglo-Swedish relations and the close connection between commercial and diplomatic relations and interests.
Greetings from Trento!
Turning Points: ‘Turns’ in Recent Historiography #history 👉 bit.ly/3PDK1GF
The #conference reflects on the meaning of a series of recent historiographical turns and on their impact on our interpretation of the #past @histodons@historikerinnen@digigw
"Why is the US far right finding its savior in Spanish dictator Francisco Franco?" by Jason Wilson (#TheGuardian)
"Some US far-right figures have made renewed attempts to rehabilitate the 20th century Spanish dictator Gen Francisco Franco in recent months, praising him as an avatar of religious authoritarianism, and praising his actions during and after the Spanish civil war as a model for confronting the left in the US."
"The critics of this flurry of neo-Francoism say that the real target of this revisionism is domestic attitudes to US democracy."
"For Faber, parts of the the American right are captured by “the dream of order, where social order is more important than democracy, and democracy is a threat to social order”."
A very interesting article on the "re-emergence" of Franco in Spain: "Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar" by Francisco Ferrándiz (#OpenAccess, 2021).
"Our project is revealing a new perspective on how these sites, contrary to previous assumptions, seem to have played a significant role in the configuration and evolution of trading networks throughout the Roman period."
Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two classic medieval dishes: a runny porridge known as “plum pottage”, which featured any seasonal mixture of meats, dried fruits, and spices; and “figgy pudding” (yes, the one mentioned in the song), a mixture of sweet and savory ingredients bagged with flour and cooked by steaming.
Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance
Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era.
My cousin Ivelisse Pabón does genealogical research on our family's African ancestors. She doesn't publish her work so I wanted to share a recent find.
The image is the cover of an article from the provincial #library in Cádiz #Spain. It shows the brand that was burned into the skin of people trafficked by La Companía Gaditana de Negros in 1765 to show that the transaction had paid the duties to make it " legitimate".
WHITE SIGHT. Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness by Nicholas Mirzoeff (The MIT Press, 2023).
"White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing. Nicholas Mirzoeff argues that this form of “white sight” has a history. By understanding that white sight was not always common practice, we can devise better ways to dismantle it. Spanning centuries across this wide-ranging text, Mirzoeff connects Renaissance innovations—from the invention of perspective and the erection of Apollo statues as monuments to (white) beauty and power to the rise of racial capitalism dependent on slave labor—with ever-expanding surveillance technologies to show that white sight creates an oppressively racializing world, in which subjects who do not appear as white are under constant threat of violence".
🎁 Looking for an original present for anybody curious to learn about the fascinating history of chess & its remarkable impact on culture, art, science, education, social advancement, prison reform and more?
FILM PAGE: ideasroadshow.com/chess/
BOOK PAGE: ideasroadshow.com/chessays/