Right-wing group gets Anne Frank's Diary and other Holocaust books removed from Texas school

#bookban #holocaust #FarRight #ChristoFascists #Nationalism #WWII #Nazism #uspolitics #AnneFrank #history #MAGA

https://www.rawstory.com/book-ban-texas-mission-cisd/

Right-wing group gets Anne Frank's Diary and other Holocaust books taken from Texas school

Pastor Luis Cabrera and his conservative group threatened to shut down school board meetings if a superintendent of a school district in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas did not heed their demands to ban a wide array of books, the Jewish Telegraphic Ag…

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The new year brings great news: 📯

Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the #emdiplomacy handbook! 🎉

Neither the pitfalls of the overheated academic system nor a pandemic could stop our wonderful authors and us from completing this project. After four years in the making the #earlymodern #diplomacy #handbook was finally published on New Year’s Eve 2023. What a great way to end the project and the old year!

We are over the moon that this book turned out as huge and pink as we wished it to be. A big thank you to our authors, the members of the editorial board as well as our publisher for their cooperation and commitment.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008

#histodons #history #NewDiplomaticHistory @histodons @historikerinnen

Nonetheless, Switzerland was because of its geopolitical position of great interest for these foreign powers. Thus, they sent their diplomats who then struggled to understand the dynamics of Swiss politics that differed quite a bit from European monarchies. (4/5)

#eamdiplomacy #earlymodern #history #earlyModernEurope #diplomacy #switzerland

Swiss #emdiplomacy differed in many ways from #emdiplomacy by European #monarchies. For one, the Swiss Cantons didn’t develop a centralized foreign office and didn’t sent permanent #emdiplomats to foreign courts. Instead, they relied heavily on informal diplomatic actors, such as military officers, merchants and clergymen.
This was much cheaper and helped them avoid ceremonial conflicts that they usually could not win against the great European powers. (3/5)

#emdiplomacy #earlymodern #history #histodons #earlyModernEurope

From the #HRE we turn to another quite special actor: #earlymodern #Switzerland. We are very happy to have found none other than Sarah Rindlisbacher Thomi from the university of Bern as an author.

Rindlisbacher wrote her PhD on “Ambassadors of Protestantism. Foreign policy activities of Zurich's town clergy in the 17th century” (in German). So who could be better suited to tell us about the characteristics of Swiss #emdiplomacy?! (2/5)

https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835352360-botschafter-des-protestantismus.html

#diplomacy #history #Zurich #earlyModernEurope

17 Sarah Rindlisbacher Thomi: Between the Great Powers: Early Modern Swiss Diplomacy (1/5)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-017

#earlymodern #Switzerland #history #earlyModernEurope #emdiplomacy #diplomacy
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As Swiss #diplomacy worked a bit differently, it helps us realize the variety of #emdiplomacy. (5/5)

#earlymodern #earlyModernEurope #monarchies #diplomacy #history #histodons

#OnThisDay, 26 Jun 1949, all Belgian women are able to vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory

Around 50 years ago, our rulers chose to begin a massive project, essentially conducting a unique scientific experiment, one with potentially foreseen but possibly unpredictable outcomes.

They decided to go all out in (1) extracting fuels buried deep in the Earth, energy from the sun stored via photosynthesis and animal metabolism over a span of 500 million years as coal, oil, and gas, and then (2) burning all of this they could find in the brief period of a few decades.

Our rulers were warned by scientists that their project involved serious risk, but they figured the power they could gain and the money they could make was worth any cost. They didn't care about the negative consequences, and/or foolishly believed that future technologies (still a fantasy in the year 2024) would somehow be able to fix whatever problems their actions caused.

And now, guess what — we're seeing signs that this experiment might be out of control. Feedback loops are kicking in, causing "natural" emissions which could trigger cascading effects, breaking down the ecosystem. It also appears that Earth's climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than first believed. Yet our rulers *still* continue to recklessly burn fossil fuels, always drilling and fracking for more, hungry for power and compelled by greed.

#History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Finnane & Richards in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review investigate the evidence of genocide against First Nations on the Queensland frontier 1859-1897. They argue that the impact of colonisation needs to be studied carefully using local sources.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12278

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #colonialism #indigenous #Auspol #Australia

Today is #ShowYourStripes day — every year on the summer solstice!

Get your local US stripes here: https://climatecentral.org/graphic/2024-warming-stripes

And get your international #WarmingStripes here: https://showyourstripes.info

#History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis