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Posts by Mark Condos

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Book Launch: Concepts in International Relations - A New Introduction This event explores the role of concepts as windows into world politics.

Book launch for new textbook on "Concepts in IR" - tomorrow 2 April at King's College. I'll be speaking about my chapter on the concept of Colonialism, and its evolution in theory & practice. Look forward to sharing a panel with great colleagues & co-contributors
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Enforcing Lines in the Sand: British Egypt, Italian Libya, and the quest to build desert boundaries during the interwar years

Join us for another exciting paper TONIGHT 5.30pm online or in person in IHR Seminar Room N304: Jessi Gilchrist (KCL) will be discussing her doctoral research into the history of border-making in the interwar Middle East. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Hi folks, after some very hard graft, I've a UK publication date - 2 July 2026 - for Book I of my Second World War Trilogy.

COLLAPSE will publish with @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social. The cover, which I love, is below!!

Details and pre-order here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/316660...

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Thanks, Tom!

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Thanks!

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Thanks, Jasmine!

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Thanks, Justin!

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Book cover of Empire with a Vengeance, by Mark Condos. The coveri mage is a reproduction from the cover of Le Petit Journal, depicting the allied punitive expedition to Baoding during the Boxer Rebellion in China, featuring the execution of a Chinese official and destruction of the city's walls.

Book cover of Empire with a Vengeance, by Mark Condos. The coveri mage is a reproduction from the cover of Le Petit Journal, depicting the allied punitive expedition to Baoding during the Boxer Rebellion in China, featuring the execution of a Chinese official and destruction of the city's walls.

Are you interested in how revenge and honour shaped British and French colonial warfare? Then check out my new book, Empire with a Vengeance, published with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social.

Available now for pre-order from Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb...

@waterstones.bsky.social

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The Atlantic Charter Revised: West African and Caribbean newspapers and the seeds of decolonisation This session examines how the Atlantic Charter and wartime “rights talk” fueled anti-colonial claims, showing how West African and Caribbean presses shaped decolonisation.

Join us tmrw 5.30pm-7pm at the IHR (room N304) or online (link below) for what promises to be a wonderful event! Dr Leslie James will be discussing her research on 'The Atlantic Charter Revisited: West African & Caribbean newspapers & the seeds of decolonisation'.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Many congratulations, Tom!

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The Colonial Way of War Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

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I have been looking forward to @tommenger.bsky.social's book on colonial warfare for some time now, and it's amazing to see that it's finally out. A must for anyone who's interested in the study of violence in a transimperial comparative framework...

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The Colonial Way of War Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

It's now been confirmed: my book The Colonial Way of War will finally come out in early August! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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The Work of Empire: book release today, Amherst Books, 7pm!

Can't be there? Take advantage of UNC Press's 30% discount, thanks to its American History sale!

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Historicising Racial Militarism

I will be speaking on "Historicising Racial Militarism" at the Institute of historical Research @ihr.bsky.social on Tues 4th February, 5.30-7pm. The event is in-person and online. All welcome, but registration required - details in the link👇
www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...

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"When people think of themselves as the 'good guys' regardless of the violence they inflict, there is ultimately no atrocity they are not willing to justify."

From my book 'MASSACRE IN THE CLOUDS':

www.amazon.com/Massacre-Clo...

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'... the old [social media] is dying and the new cannot be born' - Antonio Gramsci

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Yes, you had certainly better prepare yourself, Liesbeth! Mwahahaha!

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I have been working on my revenge for a long time now. Soon, it will all come to fruition...

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