If you just hadn’t included that pesky European in the title

It’s focused more on fascist regimes of diplomacy, but Christian Goeschel’s “Performing the New Order” in Contemporary European History (2024) is also quite good

Merry Christmas from my little drummer boy (his name’s Bowie)!

We are seeking to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 2026. Applications are due on January 11; for more details visit: www.ghi-dc.org/news-...

The first few months are really frustrating. I was down to a soft brace after 4 months and just tennis shoes another 6 weeks after that. Take it slow because you don’t want to rush it and then screw it up even more.

I would say that it’s at about 90% after three years. It still twinges at times (today was not a good day) but I also did some pretty severe damage to the major tendons in my ankle

That’s what I did a few years ago and I can confirm that it is an unpleasant experience - do you need surgical repair?

Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths Exclusive: Exhibition will reveal complex reality, featuring women and artistic creations, beyond armour-clad warriors

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Oh no! Broken ankles are the worst. Hope it’s a relatively straightforward recovery

Fascism: The History of a Word–Federico Marcon

I'm pleased to announce the first *virtual* event in a speaker series I'm organizing on New Histories of Fascism, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust: Federico Marcon on his new book, "Fascism: The History of a Word" @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Register here via Zoom: events.rochester.edu/event/fascis...

Congratulations!! Looking forward to reading it!

That would be my guess

Cover of book with old map at the top and postage stamps of Nietzsche, Kant and Herder at the bottom

Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories - Oxford University Press, November 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A Farewell to the Thucydides Trap: The ‘Anglo-German Antagonism’ as History and International Relations Paradigm* Abstract. Prefacing a series of articles in the Special Issue examining the imperial and colonial dimensions of Anglo-German relations prior to and during

My new article on Anglo-German relations prior to 1914 (the introduction to a special issue) has just come out online for the journal 'German History'. academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...

New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic

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Interested in (Dis)continuities and Comparisons between Colonialism and Nazi Rule? Consider answering the CfP for the ‚Imperial Legacies?‘ conference at the GHI Washington.
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Coll: German-Austrian POWs in Japan during the First World War (IEG, Mainz)

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-154471

Mainz, 15.04.2025-15.04.2025, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz

Prof. Dr. Matthew Fitzpatrick, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia: „German Imperialism in Samoa: Exception or Empire as Usual?“

For those in Bremen, I'll be speaking about my recent research at the history research seminar there. www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...

„Und morgen die ganze Welt“. Nationalsozialismus und internationale Öffentlichkeit

Morgen in der Topographie des Terrors: Norman Domeier und ich stellen den Sammelband "Und morgen die ganze Welt" über NS-Deutschland in der internationalen Öffentlichkeit vor. Moderation Babette Quinkert.
11.3. Beginn 19 Uhr, Eintritt frei.
@topographie.de
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Thank you for the kind words - I’m glad you found my article helpful/interesting!

New Directions in Modern German History This two-day conference (April 25-26) will bring together historians of modern Germany from the greater New York region to present and discuss new research in the field. The two keynote lectures will ...

Mark your calendars! I'm organizing a workshop in modern German history @ URochester April 25-26. Keynotes will be Anne Berg and Sam Huneke, with Paul Hanebrink, John Abromeit, and Robert Terrell also presenting. Write me if you'd like to attend or share a paper. events.rochester.edu/event/new-di...

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying
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Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.

Practically speaking race was made a non-issue after 1935 and the alliance was sold to the German public as a geopolitical project

They weren’t quite equal to the Germans but that they shared enough of the same geopolitical goals that an alliance (with separate spheres of influence) was a viable proposition for at least the immediate future. There was also a faction that still subscribed to the old yellow peril nonsense.

There were several high-placed individuals within the SS and Propaganda Ministry who believed that the Japanese were Aryan and so there was no problem working with them (or marrying them for that matter). There was also the position (usually associated with a few quotes from Mein Kampf) that…

@waitmanwbeorn.com thanks for the shout out! Like most things, the simple answer is that there was never a consensus within Nazism about how to categorize the Japanese racially and so depending on who:which org you’re looking at the answer can vary a lot.

I’d like to be added please!

Faculty: we need more TT lines, better pay for grad students & support staff, research funds & money for the libraries

Chancellors: what I’m hearing is you want us to pay a consulting firm to do a climate survey, launch a new LMS, redo the uni website, & make every class hybrid