🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
PhD Opportunity in Global History
Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome.
More details:
World History Association members: look for a membership-wide vote on a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza later today. Add to the pressure on the AHA's leadership. members.thewha.org/general/cust...
#envhum folks!
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
Publication Day!
My book is officially out with @uncpress.bsky.social. A case study of conservation from the Progressive Era to the age of sustainability, it shows how agricultural conservation aided the rise of industrial ag -- with similar results for land & people.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Follia pura! 🤯
20th c. international and global historians: If you will be at the AHA and have a book project to pitch for our series, our sponsoring editor @dgershenowitz.bsky.social will be there and is eager to set up meetings! Her email address is on our series webpage:
uncpress.org/series/inter...
RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).
If you are in/near Paris, please join us at Sciences Po for a wide-ranging #envhist conversation with myself, Sverker Sorlin, Antoine Acker & @brdemuth.bsky.social on planetary history, global history and national history,
Thursday Dec 12 from 3pm to 5:30 pm, 1 place St Thomas.
More details here:
My project, DEVHIST, will focus on how aid workers and Global South communities renegotiated development projects at the point of implementation, to better understand the material outcomes of development aid. I’m so thrilled this was funded and can’t wait to get started
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/three-s...
A sample of Norin 10 wheat seeds in an envelope held at the New South Wales State Archives
My colleague Diana Méndez Rojas and I are preparing an Oxford Bibliography on transnational perspectives on the Green Revolution, broadly conceived. If you've written on this topic or know of important works we should include, we'd love to hear your suggestions! 🌽🌎 #envhist #aghist #histsci
This article explores the #transimperial politics and meanings of Fascist material legacies in between #Italy and #Ethiopia. Connecting troubled restitutions and international aid, it examines (post)colonial reworkings of imperial objects and relations, here in OA! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Great suggestions, thank you!!
I need to pick your brains #hist community!
I am no food historian, but next term I am going to teach an undergraduate course on #foodhistory --- what readings should I and my students not miss out on?
Grateful for any reading suggestions incl. self-promotion (articles preferred)!
Absolutely, her work is brilliant
A sample of Norin 10 wheat seeds in an envelope held at the New South Wales State Archives
My colleague Diana Méndez Rojas and I are preparing an Oxford Bibliography on transnational perspectives on the Green Revolution, broadly conceived. If you've written on this topic or know of important works we should include, we'd love to hear your suggestions! 🌽🌎 #envhist #aghist #histsci
Bloomsbury just published Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century. The volume sheds new light on the globalization of technology and international power struggles in the twentieth century through the perspective dams.
Please see attached a CALL FOR A DEPUTY EDITOR for 'Environment and History'. #envhist
Did not expect to stumble on the actual seeds of the Green Revolution at the archives in Australia😁
Glad to share my contribution to the Review Forum of Natalie Koch's brilliant book "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (2022), just published in Political Geography. authors.elsevier.com/c/1i88m3Qu6u...
Michele also has a great article on Italy's wheat revolution that builds on my book research. Really interesting and it's open access, check it out! "The fascist Green Revolution" #histsci #envhist
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"This is a brilliant and engaging book that should undoubtedly become a must-read text for historians, social scientists, and policy actors interested in the history, present, and future of the Green Revolution".
upittpress.org/books/978082...
Happy to share my review of Marci Baranski's @ecomarci.bsky.social great book "The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution", just published in Environmental History 28 (4). doi.org/10.1086/726417
🔍If anyone knows a research assistant for hire in the DC area (NARA College Park) let me know!
My article "How to Feed an Empire? Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and Wheat Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia" is now Open Access for 3 months. Many thanks to the Society for Italian Historical Studies and to Duke UP. Feel free to download and share widely!!
doi.org/10.1215/0002...
New book review by Emily M Hill on H-Environment!
"Baranski’s admirable multidisciplinary effort to 'dismantle the narrative of wide adaptation' therefore deserves a wide readership"
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
#envhist #envhum 📗🗃️
🎉Happy news! 🎉I've received the Article Prize for Modern Italian History, awarded by the Society for Italian Historical Studies (SIHS) to my article "How to Feed an Empire? Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and Wheat Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia" published in Agricultural History (2022)
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