#empires — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #empires, aggregated by home.social.
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In this #HotTake I explore a new #idea of #world #citizenship for everyone.
No #passport needed, just have one #border - #life itself.
Have a couple world laws any #region enforces about ones well being, but don't #weaponize things on that level. Leave the rest up to individual #cities to cultivate.
This is about #respect, #culture #conservation and #human #dignity. Throughout #locations where only common ground makes decisions, rather than #laws or #empires instead.
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#Nazis are the most #dehumanized #community in #history, while #empires with hundred times the atrocity walk like they invented #morality.
Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock
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Conquerors by Roger Crowley, 2015
How Portugal Forged First Global Empire
The epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match.
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Mapping Medieval Africa - The Great Kingdoms of the West
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https://ubiqueags.org/the-ags-globe-mapping-medieval-africa-the-great-kingdoms-of-the-west/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-west-africa-history-facts/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Nehemia-Levtzion/dp/1558763058# <-- shared link to book
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H/T #AmericanGeographicalSociety
“Medieval West Africa was dominated by three great empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhai - that grew immensely powerful from the trans-Saharan trade routes, especially for gold and salt, fostering vibrant Islamic cultures, wealthy cities like Timbuktu, and powerful centralized governments before smaller states emerged. These empires were centers of learning, art, and distinct governance, with oral traditions preserving much of their history…”
#mapping #historicmaps #Africa #WestAfrica #Medieval #cartography #empires #kingdom #Ghana #Mali #Songhai #trading #traderoutes #Sahara #gold #salt #Timbuktu #history
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Mapping Medieval Africa - The Great Kingdoms of the West
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https://ubiqueags.org/the-ags-globe-mapping-medieval-africa-the-great-kingdoms-of-the-west/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-west-africa-history-facts/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Nehemia-Levtzion/dp/1558763058# <-- shared link to book
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H/T #AmericanGeographicalSociety
“Medieval West Africa was dominated by three great empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhai - that grew immensely powerful from the trans-Saharan trade routes, especially for gold and salt, fostering vibrant Islamic cultures, wealthy cities like Timbuktu, and powerful centralized governments before smaller states emerged. These empires were centers of learning, art, and distinct governance, with oral traditions preserving much of their history…”
#mapping #historicmaps #Africa #WestAfrica #Medieval #cartography #empires #kingdom #Ghana #Mali #Songhai #trading #traderoutes #Sahara #gold #salt #Timbuktu #history
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Mapping Medieval Africa - The Great Kingdoms of the West
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https://ubiqueags.org/the-ags-globe-mapping-medieval-africa-the-great-kingdoms-of-the-west/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-west-africa-history-facts/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Nehemia-Levtzion/dp/1558763058# <-- shared link to book
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H/T #AmericanGeographicalSociety
“Medieval West Africa was dominated by three great empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhai - that grew immensely powerful from the trans-Saharan trade routes, especially for gold and salt, fostering vibrant Islamic cultures, wealthy cities like Timbuktu, and powerful centralized governments before smaller states emerged. These empires were centers of learning, art, and distinct governance, with oral traditions preserving much of their history…”
#mapping #historicmaps #Africa #WestAfrica #Medieval #cartography #empires #kingdom #Ghana #Mali #Songhai #trading #traderoutes #Sahara #gold #salt #Timbuktu #history
@AmericanGeographicalSociety -
Mapping Medieval Africa - The Great Kingdoms of the West
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https://ubiqueags.org/the-ags-globe-mapping-medieval-africa-the-great-kingdoms-of-the-west/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-west-africa-history-facts/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Nehemia-Levtzion/dp/1558763058# <-- shared link to book
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H/T #AmericanGeographicalSociety
“Medieval West Africa was dominated by three great empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhai - that grew immensely powerful from the trans-Saharan trade routes, especially for gold and salt, fostering vibrant Islamic cultures, wealthy cities like Timbuktu, and powerful centralized governments before smaller states emerged. These empires were centers of learning, art, and distinct governance, with oral traditions preserving much of their history…”
#mapping #historicmaps #Africa #WestAfrica #Medieval #cartography #empires #kingdom #Ghana #Mali #Songhai #trading #traderoutes #Sahara #gold #salt #Timbuktu #history
@AmericanGeographicalSociety -
Mapping Medieval Africa - The Great Kingdoms of the West
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https://ubiqueags.org/the-ags-globe-mapping-medieval-africa-the-great-kingdoms-of-the-west/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-west-africa-history-facts/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Nehemia-Levtzion/dp/1558763058# <-- shared link to book
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H/T #AmericanGeographicalSociety
“Medieval West Africa was dominated by three great empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhai - that grew immensely powerful from the trans-Saharan trade routes, especially for gold and salt, fostering vibrant Islamic cultures, wealthy cities like Timbuktu, and powerful centralized governments before smaller states emerged. These empires were centers of learning, art, and distinct governance, with oral traditions preserving much of their history…”
#mapping #historicmaps #Africa #WestAfrica #Medieval #cartography #empires #kingdom #Ghana #Mali #Songhai #trading #traderoutes #Sahara #gold #salt #Timbuktu #history
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"China’s leaders have spent years preparing for Trump’s return and view the trade war as part of a much larger contest that is likely to last for decades. In the short term, Beijing’s priority is securing the concessions on advanced technology needed to accelerate semiconductor development in China and reduce reliance on imports. In the medium term, it aims to deepen technological capacity, diversify export markets, and capture a larger share of value-added exports in global supply chains to reduce U.S. leverage. In the long run, it intends to build an alternative global trading and financial architecture strong enough to strip the United States of its unilateral sanctioning power. Above all, China wants recognition that its core interests lie beyond even the threat of Western interference—that it has full freedom of action within its sphere of influence, including Taiwan and its regional periphery, and that it can engage economically with the world on terms no less favorable than those accorded to the United States or other great powers.
In essence, China is attempting a geopolitical feat without precedent. It seeks to obtain an equal place alongside the United States without triggering “the Thucydides trap’’—the tendency for rising and established hegemons to come to blows. Unlike earlier revisionist powers, China intends to complete its ascent through the steady accumulation of economic power and influence rather than through military conquest. To succeed, it must not merely draw even with the United States but surpass it in some areas, to the point that any U.S. refusal to acknowledge its superpower status appears absurd to the rest of the world.
As this protracted struggle unfolds, conventional side-by-side comparisons of economic data or military capability are unlikely to provide a clear indication of which side is ahead, which is slipping behind, and why."
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-long-economic-war-zongyuan-zoe-liu#
#China #EconomicWar #USA #Empires #Imperialism #Superpowers #PoliticalEconomy -
Join us for the next talk in our RTG 2571 “Empires” Ringvorlesung, Temporality of Imperial Violence.
🗓️ 6 November 2025, 18:00–20:00, HS 1015 (KG I).
Professor Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin): “Archival Poetics: Containing Affects of Un/Belonging in British Memorial Culture.” Language: English. Bring your questions—discussion welcome.
@empires @unifreiburg @dfg_public @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @HistoMartin @teresa_mayer @ElenLeFoll @sociology @politicalscience#empires #imperialviolence #slowviolence #colonialism #postcolonial #decolonial #powerdynamics #histodons #history #academicmastodon #histodon #empire #literarystudies
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Whether you’re drawn to #stories of shattered #empires, #celestial #prophecy, sisterhood, or the cost of power, The Wrath of the Shattered Sky offers a #dazzling journey into a world where every star holds a #secret and some should never be found. #booksky #books #kindleunlimited #KU amzn.to/4mtYbc8
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🔔 Mark your calendars! Our lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” is scheduled for this Winter Term 2025/26 at the University of Freiburg.
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars from around the world will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists, and is remembered across time and space. From slow violence to sudden rupture, we’ll explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
📍 All sessions are open to the public. Join us for critical conversations and fresh perspectives!
📄 Full programme in the flyer below.#empires #imperialviolence #slowviolence #colonialism #postcolonial #decolonial #powerdynamics #histodons #history #academicmastodon
@empires @unifreiburg @mehlera @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @histodons @dfg_public @politicalscience -
African Heritage In Europe: Join a special screening of “Dahomey” and “If Objects Could Speak” on 24 July at 19:30, hosted by Kommunales Kino Freiburg (Urachstr. 40, 79102 Freiburg). Both films address the colonial appropriation of African cultural objects and pose vital questions about restitution, identity, and justice.
Afterwards, Dr. Kokou Azamede (Université Lomé, Togo) and filmmaker Elena Bauer will discuss these issues on a panel moderated by Dr. Richard Legay (ABI). This event is organised by our local partners and we highly recommend attending.
https://www.koki-freiburg.de/dahomey-if-objects-could-speak-panel/
#colonialism #postcolonial #westafrica #decolonial #globalstudies #empire #histodons #histodon #academicmastodon #empires @empires @unifreiburg @mehlera @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @histodon @dfg_public @politicalscience
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🌍🎓 Discover the complex narratives of colonial violence and the quest for postcolonial identity in West Africa! Join us on 🗓 8 July 2025 from 🕕 20:15 to 21:45 in 📍 HS 1228, KG I, for Dr. Kokou Azamede’s thought-provoking talk: “Koloniale Gewalt und postkoloniale Identität: Auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung in Westafrika.” Whether you’re attending in person or tuning in via Zoom, this is an opportunity to delve deep into history and its impact on identity.
🔗 Curious to learn more? Email [email protected] for the Zoom link and visit the event page: https://t1p.de/23qqm#colonialism #postcolonial #westafrica #decolonial #globalstudies #empire #histodons #histodon #academicmastodon #empires @empires @unifreiburg @mehlera @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @histodon @dfg_public @politicalscience
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From the Chris Hedges Report on Substack: “The last days of #dying #empires are dominated by #idiots. … Donald Trump, and the #sycophantic #buffoons in his administration, are updated versions.” https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-rule-of-idiots
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Le deuxième dossier du numéro porte sur les promesses des nouvelles approches croisées de l'étude des empires.
À partir d'une recension croisée des trois ouvrages récents, Masha Cerovic fait ressortir comment l'étude transimpériale des empires russe et ottoman renouvelle l'historiographie de ces espaces, en soulignant notamment les phénomènes de co-construction d'ordres impériaux fondés sur des conceptions partagées de la souveraineté, de la sujétion et de la protection -- dans une imbrication systémique souvent violente.
▶️ Masha CEROVIC, Pluraliser la modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahss.2025.4
👉@histodons #histodons #empires #imperialisme #russie #empirerusse #empireottoman #historiographie #recension
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Un article à rapprocher du beau texte d'Isabelle SURUN publié en 2014 dans les #AnnalesHSS, sur les bricolages juridiques de l'impérialisme français :
➡️ Une souveraineté à l ’encre sympathique? Souveraineté autochtone et appropriations territoriales dans les traités franco-africains au XIXe siècle
👉 https://doi.org/10.1353/ahs.2014.0084
👉 https://shs.cairn.info/revue-annales-2014-2-page-313 -
Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).
Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.
🔗Read it here: https://t1p.de/conf-rep-24
@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory
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Imperial violence
"Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries."
The book "brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order."
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peaceBenton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
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https://history.yale.edu/people/lauren-benton
#book #history #empires #violence #war #warmongers #massacres #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #HyperViolentPeace #Pacific #GlobalOrder #peace #TruthTelling -
How do you explain that #politically, #historically, societies tend to go the same way - like full stop.
We can go far back, much earlier than #Rome, to see a common pattern whereby a #society has a climax period and then the fall from grace that eventually leads to collapse.
#Modernity in itself is a joke, because the modern promise can't be kept, as it's backed by the same "eternal growth" touted by #empires before the invention of #capitalism, and capitalism just accelerates the problem.
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Great African empires
In this episode of “Lumumba’s Africa,” Professor PLO #Lumumba explores the #historical significance of the #African continent, which was the cradle of some of the greatest #empires, including the #Egyptian, #Songhai, #Benin, and #Yoruba empires, among others across the Mother Continent. While these #civilizations flourished, they suffered devastating impacts due to slavery and #colonization. However, some of these #kingdoms, such as the #Zulu Kingdom, #Oyo, and the #Waganda Kingdom, still exist today. The professor #emphasizes the importance of keeping the #legacies of #African kingdoms alive through discussion and #storytelling, as this will help unite Africa and contribute to a brighter future for the continent.
https://www.rt.com/shows/lumumbas-africa/605462-african-empires-legacies-historical-significance/
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By co-opting #Christianity for imperial purposes, #Constantine effectively held the keys to heaven and hell (through enforcement of imperially approved church #doctrines that excluded persons from the #church who held different views), tools which #empires have used through the ages to manipulate the masses and justify imperial expansion and #colonialism under the guise of Christian mission.
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https://archive.org/details/europeanimperialism
Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism by James S. Olson; Robert Shadle; Ross Marlay; William G. Ratliff; Joseph M. Rowe, Jr.; Judith E. Olson; J. Larry Murdock
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#imperialism, #europe, #history, #colonialism, #dictionaries, #historicaldictionaries, #spanishempire, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #portugueseempire, #portugueseimperialism, #portuguesecolonialism, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #dutchempire, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #frenchempire, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #germanempire, #germanimperialism, #germancolonialism, #belgianempire, #belgianimperialism, #belgiancolonialism, #italianempire, #italianimperialism, #italiancolonialism, #genocide, #spain, #portugal, #britain, #greatbritain, #unitedkingdom, #españa, #thenetherlands, #netherlands, #nederland, #holland, #france, #germany, #deutschland, #belgium, #belgië, #belgique, #belgien, #italy, #italia, #empire, #empires, #whitesupremacyThe major focus of this historical dictionary is on the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years.
