Harry Croft
@Captain_Boot
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he/him | on unceded Boonwurrung land | PhD student at Monash University | Environmental History
Joined July 2022
Minoru Hokari, Gurindji Journey. Brilliant and paradigm shifting. Intimate and revelatory. What happens to the Western tradition of the historical discipline when it takes seriously the Dreaming, Everywhen, and Indigenous epistemologies? Truly wonderful things.
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Fernand Braudel, Identity of France vol. I. The attention to detail is breathtaking. Linking regions’ roofing materials with local economies and geographies (pp. 53 & 171) to paint a longue durée history, to give one example. Siân Reynolds’ translation is fantastic.
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Yves Rees, Travelling to Tomorrow. I am in awe. Rees has taken great care to rewrite the thesis as a book that will appeal to everyone. The scene setting is so rich and the interrupted chronologies are very clever. The women’s stories are spectacular and, with Rees, fun!
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Ruth A. Morgan, Climate Change and International History. A much-needed exploration of the globalisation of the changing climate and responses to this. It’s backed by some brilliant archival finds and is so damn readable despite its attention to politicking and bureaucracy.
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Sandra Swart, The Lion’s Historian. Swart shows the non-human in all its multifaceted complexity. They are much more than the Disneyfied cartoonish innocents or the unthinking ferals of the popular imaginary. And the punny subheadings: delectable!
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For the third year in a row, I read one book per week. Hopelessly, only one was fiction (Joseph Heller, Picture This); the rest history, animal studies, memoir, archaeology, pedagogy, and the like. Some highlights include:.
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It’s giving Franklin Dam.
I support salmon farming on Macquarie Harbour because it means jobs for Tasmania.
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RT @RebiHoulihan: The SoPHIS postgrad cohort was very much cohort-ing at our end of year event
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Monash’s main library is binning half its collection over the summer. Just look at the shelves! 😢
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Standing room only for the launch of Judith Buckrich’s latest!
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RT @AustHistAssoc: The website for the 2025 AHA Conference is live! Hosted by James Cook University and Central Queensland University, the….
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Feeling very full following a week in Canberra "thinking planetarily", writing, scouring archives, and catching up with friends and family :).
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RT @Joshua_Black97: Retweeting this CfP for a special issue of @AJPandH on the 49th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government/….
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RT @AustHistAssoc: The AHA welcomes the Australian Government's proposed 20% cut to HECS-HELP student debts. But this modest cost-of-living….
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The Australian Historical Association welcomes the federal government’s recently announced proposal, if re-elected, to reduce the HECS-HELP debt burden on Australian university graduates by twenty...
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RT @JessUrwin95: Had the pleasure of getting this bumper @ANZ_EHN publication round up on the website this week! Dozens of phenomenal new….
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ThemesActivism, and Scholarly PracticeAntarcticaAnthropoceneBlogsColonialism, Capitalism, and CommoditiesWater and FireEnvironmental GovernanceGenderHistory of ScienceMore-than-Human HistoriesRevie…
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Climate%20change%20is%20also%20impacting,pollen%20patterns%20in%20two%20ways.
scientificamerican.com
Longer growing seasons and increased pollen production driven by climate change could be aggravating your seasonal allergy symptoms
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A platypus was almost sent to Churchill in '43 (Cushing & Markwell 2009), but tragically died en route. Here's some (provisional) data from the platypus attendant's log, showing changes in food, air, & water temp as they made the crossing from MEL to Liverpool (NAA: A2908, V23/2)
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