Similarly, in Germany, the diaspora in Brazil, which was one of the largest German diaspora, & its settler lifestyle was viewed as an alternative to migration to the United States for industrial work, which subjected Germans both to indignities and detachment from their national identity.

An interesting historical theme is how both Japan and Germany saw Brazil as a "settler colonial laboratory." Japanese settlers in Brazil acted as part of the broader imperial project and promoted settler colonial visions in Southeast Asia in the 1930s and 1940s.

Easily top three out-of-context @keanuheydari.bsky.social moments:

Tipu was historically progressive. Eviscerated petty rentiers of South India in his conquests & laid the groundwork for the ryotwari system, which allowed for private ownership of land w/o rents due to any middlemen unlike the zamindari system which predominated in rest of India.

Great analysis by Steven Hahn of the role of rumor as a form of political struggle among slave populations in the rural South. Rumors not only imparted information but mobilized recipients while being anonymous and untraceable. . .

The demographic revolution of the Late Ottoman Levant. Muslim refugees arriving from Crimea & Balkans were able to obtain private land titles, grow cash crops, and prosper. Christians struggled with feudal system + decline of old crafts & trade routes, causing many to emigrate.