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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 22d

EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Screenshot from the website of the European Declaration

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 16d

Absolutely essential reading for all historians of science
antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...

Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online

Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 22d

🚨 #OpenAccess 🚨

This article is also available in #English

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#mercantilism #diplomacy #animals #skystorians

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22d

Very very happy to announce that the @jhokjournal.bsky.social special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World," edited by Vera Keller, Kely Whitmer, and me, is starting to be published: the first three articles are here, the rest to follow.
journalhistoryknowledge.org/Knowledge_an...

Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World | Journal for the History of Knowledge

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 24d

Merci Vincent !

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you so much Fredrik!

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 24d

Excellent article from @jamborg.bsky.social about "genetic" mercantilism. Highly recommended

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 24d

'Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de #races animales, diplomatie du mouton et #géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle'

par @jamborg.bsky.social (Uppsala)

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#skystorians #race #climate #merinos 🐑

Gravure des moutons mérinos devant la bergerie nationale de Rambouillet (Archives nationales)

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Antoine Duranton @aduranton.bsky.social · Aug 25

Really honored to be part of this issue! In my article, I study the (failed) attempts to cultivate wheat in Hispaniola during the 16th century. While the West Indies are mostly known for the sugar plantations that made them so important for later colonial empires...

Hispanic American Historical Review @hahr21.bsky.social · Aug 6

In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, @aduranton.bsky.social describes the attempts to adapt wheat in Hispaniola in the sixteenth century. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

The Transplantation of Wheat in Sixteenth-Century Hispaniola: Royal Institutions, Colonization, and Agronomic Testing | Hispanic American Historical Review | Duke University Press

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 24d

'Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de #races animales, diplomatie du mouton et #géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle'

par @jamborg.bsky.social (Uppsala)

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#skystorians #race #climate #merinos 🐑

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Arnaud Orain @arnaudorain.bsky.social · 24d

« Capitalisme, démocratie, colonialisme, Europe, comment hérite-t-on du passé ? »
Dialogue « Le présent de l’histoire » entre Antoine Lilti et moi
À 11h30 le samedi 18 octobre aux Franciscaines de Deauville à l’occasion des 150 ans de Flammarion

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 29d

Version française disponible ici :

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Mercantilisme animal

Contrebande de races animales, diplomatie du mouton et géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 29d

Combining perspectives from economic, agricultural, political, and cultural history with history of science, this article uses the concept of animal mercantilism to open up the geopolitical stakes inherent in understandings of animals, race, and climate.

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 29d

The French government was however determined to overcome their country’s weak wool production. Collaborating with breeders, smugglers, diplomats and naturalists, state officials sought ways to import breeds – often through illicit means – that could improve their national sheep population.

Note from the breeder Guerrier – including a wool sample demonstrating the high quality of a flock of sheep recently smuggled into France from Lincolnshire – sent to the French intendant of finances, Trudaine de Montigny, who supported several similar projects, around 1770. Archives nationales, F/10/515-516.

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 29d

In the early modern period, Britain and Spain were famed for their fine wool production. They made sure to protect the advantage that their superior breeds gave them by totally banning the exportation of live sheep.

Sheep smugglers could face capital punishment in both countries! (See image)

”All Persons concerned in Exporting of live Sheep or Lambs, on Conviction are liable to One Year’s Imprisonment, and at the End thereof to have their left Hand cut off, and nailed up in the openest Part of the Market nearest the Place where the Offence is committed. And for the second Offence are adjudged Felons, and to suffer Death as in Cases of Felony.”

Abstract of several Acts of Parliament, now in force, to prevent the exportation of wool, sheep, &c, 1737

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 29d

Woollens constituted the most important industrial product in early-modern Europe. While the textile trade and manufacturing industry are well-studied historical topics, the importance of sheep breeding in the political economy of wool is much less known.

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 29d

This article examines how animal breeds came to be seen as national resources in the early modern period, amidst European imperial competition and changing conceptions of race, breed and climate.

It particularly focuses on how governments protected – and stole – sheep breeds in the 18th century.

Engraving of merinos in front of the Bergerie nationale de Rambouillet. Archives nationales, 20160285-648-649.

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 29d

📢 New publication!
”Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France” in @annales.ehess.fr is now available OA🐑🌍

doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core

Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Of course, I’ll send it right away!

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Just stumbled upon this post when I was looking for something else. Have you seen the dissection report by Mertrud, Daubenton and Vicq d’Azyr in the MNHN archives (Ms. 219)? I have it photocopied and would be happy to share if still relevant.

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · Sep 6

Lien qui fonctionne :
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Mercantilisme animal

Contrebande de races animales, diplomatie du mouton et géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · Sep 5

”Mercantilisme animal” est désormais disponible sur Cairn. Ce lien donne accès gratuit à l’article jusqu’au 5 octobre :

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · Aug 22

Continuing now with colonial climates & environments chaired by @lindaaburnett.bsky.social
Speakers:
@davidemartino.bsky.social
Wenrui Zhao
@jamborg.bsky.social

It’s going to be about water, mines and cattle consecutively but maybe also connecting?
#eseh2025
#envhist

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ravi de découvrir que le @mondediplomatique.bsky.social de ce mois propose aussi un bel article de @raphaelmago.bsky.social sur la géopolitique animalière ! 🐪

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · Aug 22

The English version will appear shortly.

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · Aug 22

Cet article paraît dans le double numéro spécial « Animaux et animalités », publié par les @annales.ehess.fr

Une exploration collective des liens entre savoirs, pouvoirs et mondes animaux.

Le sommaire est disponible ici
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Parution du numéro 80/1-2 : Animaux et Animalité

Sommaire: Introduction Guillaume Calafat, Benedetta Piazzesi et Silvia SebastianiAvec la question animale Frontières d’animalitéCecilia Muratori – Le végétarisme avant le « végétarisme ». Méthode de l...

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