Andy Denning
@AndyDenningHist
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European and imperial history @UnivOfKansas. Books: Automotive Empire https://t.co/XkUlwcQmcC. Skiing into Modernity https://t.co/N4LgTiF9mE. Interwar World https://t.co/opXGalRqBS
Joined September 2020
🚨 publication day! 🚨 Automotive Empire is officially available for purchase today with @CornellPress !. A 🧵 on its key findings and a discount code below!.
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In Automotive Empire, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railro...
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The book edited by @HeidiTworek and me with @RoutledgeHist is two years old, and to celebrate its attainment of toddler status, is now available in paperback! Great for classes in HIST/IR with 50+ contributors in 40 globally-framed, thematic chapters!
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great opportunity for historians of games and/or the environment - check it out!
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Through Playing Inside, we hope to develop a place to discuss the many ways that playing inside impacts people’s relationships with environments outside.
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RT @SollaiMichele: 🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉.My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian….
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Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s)
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RT @MoritzBrescius: 📢 Job alert! We're hiring! Come work with me @UniBasel_en  📢  1 fully-funded PhD position (4 years) in my Consolidat….
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delighted to share that @HeidiTworek and I have a new article available from @PastPresentSoc on the promises and perils of periodization in global history. DM or email at institutional address if you need access!
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Abstract. This article considers the role of periodization in global history through the lens of the inter-war era. The global turn has shifted the ‘metage
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RT @ctounsel1: Next Friday, UW African Studies Program will host @AndyDenningHist for a virtual talk on his new book "Automotive Empire: Ho….
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New York conference goers! Come bright and EARLY Sunday to hear me and some brilliant authors gab about all things transimperial!
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RT @KUMuseumStudies: Congrats to MUSE professor Jeanne Vaccaro! Her co-curated exhibition at ICA LA, Scientia Sexualis, made @friezeofficia….
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From a bold architectural intervention in New York to a group exhibition in Los Angeles on the science of sex
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RT @KUMuseumStudies: Congrats to our museum exhibits class: Their exhibits open today @WatkinsMuseum! Presentation & reception 4 p.m. today….
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KU museum studies students will soon debut new exhibitions at the Watkins Museum telling the stories of two legendary Lawrence figures.
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RT @HistoricalJnl: 📣From our latest issue, 'Global Social History: Class and Social Transformation in World History'. Andrew Sartori (@NYUH….
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Looking forward to this online book talk tomorrow about Automotive Empire ( - conveniently timed for audiences across the globe! Thanks to @Chris_Chang_Liu for organizing and a fantastic lineup of commentators! @CornellPress
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RT @DavidMotadel: Delighted about the publication of GLOBAL SOCIAL HISTORY: RETHINKING CLASS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE MODERN WORLD,….
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bought a five pound bag of gummy bears and this thing is an absolute moral hazard. At all times of day, I think "there are gummy bears just over there" and "there are five pounds, you couldn't possibly make a dent in it" and "they're so light and tasty, you deserve it for being.
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Looking forward to a truly intercontinental discussion of my book with excellent interlocutors next month. See flyer for registration details and join us in the morning (North America), afternoon (Europe), or late evening (East Asia)!.
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