Oceans as Archives. My new book, a collection of essays and creative work co-edited with @renisamawani and Mikki Stelder, is in the world! We hope the very high price is temporary - consider ordering a copy for your library.

Reorganizing storage this week, finding my partner’s old Uni readers. Some hand written and photocopied

And this beauty arrived - happy to see my chapter on the global Seven Years War in the world. And looking forward to reading all the wonderful work in this volume

My author/ editor copies arrived

#NewRelease Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and South East & East Asia eds. Angela Schottenhammer et al. BRill 2025 https://t.co/zq7US4xXfw Preliminary Material PDF https://t.co/S6JRbEfj9C

Grad student stipend $15,000 Adjunct salary $40,000 Busta Rhymes appearance fee $800,000 Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my university is dying

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We're excited to reveal our Spring 2026 catalog, featuring books being published between January and June 2026. Many of them are available for pre-order on our website. Download your copy now! https://t.co/4GTvN5HrJl

Friends of God and Slaves of Men by Kevin Bales and Michael Rota The first book-length study of religious responses to slavery across faiths from antiquity to the present day. 📘 https://t.co/whinC0deQp

Thank you to Nelson Lichtenstein for this careful review of Capitalism: A Global History. https://t.co/0SCAk7kBzQ

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY: The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2026-27 fellowship program! See the attached announcement for further details.

Jorge Luis Borges is one of those writers who, once you’ve become obsessed by them, make you wonder how you coped before. The endless mirrors and magic of his art, changing how you think, how you speak, how you see the world.

#NewPublication Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800 eds. Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner, Amsterdam Univ Pr 2025 https://t.co/Pc1sQFlcfU https://t.co/MmnxOlSiAk

It's important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas: ghosts terrorising rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more.

The HKU Spring History Symposium, held on May 8-9, 2026, invites works that produce, employ and engage with historical research focusing on events and movements (dis)connecting Asia with the world from the 18th century onwards. Apply by Jan. 31, 2026:

The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South | Oxford Academic- just out with my chapter on decolonial feminism in transnational times.

A video has ignited questions over the impartiality of British policing after a man holding a placard reading “I oppose Palestine Action I support genocide” approached officers and asked why he was not being arrested despite police detaining people carrying Palestine Action signs

https://t.co/lpZ6WwfQLv

Going to dive into Beckert's mammoth soon. I have many intelligent oomfies here, so does anyone have any recs on what to read to balance/counter Beckert? I guess Braudel+Wallerstein is the obvious one, but I also want Marxist counterpoints (please no EM Wood/early Brenner).

In Iceland, they exchange books at Christmas. The tradition is to spend the rest of the evening reading and eating chocolate. Night