Matteo Miele
@matteomp23.bsky.social
Historian of Bhutan | Sherubtse Lecturer (2011-12) | Associate Professor of History and institutions of Asia, University of Florence | Affiliated Associate Professor, CSEAS Kyoto Univerisity | Genoese roots 🏴
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Matteo Miele
@matteomp23.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Mongolian Independence and the British: Geopolitics and Diplomacy in High Asia, 1911–1916
Utilising archival documents, this book focuses on High Asian diplomatic, geopolitical and trade issues from the point of view of the British in the period between the late Ch’ing dynasty and the earl...
www.e-ir.info
My book Mongolian Independence and the British: Geopolitics and Diplomacy in High Asia, 1911–1916, E-International Relations, Bristol, England 2022. Free to download:
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Mongolian has some wild Eurasian etymologies! 🥰 My favourite one is nom ᠨᠣᠮ ('book'), from Greek νόμος, via Sogdian and Old Uyghur. The semantic shift 'custom, law' > 'scripture' > 'book' is lovely.
Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀
@kebuhcah.bsky.social
Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀
@kebuhcah.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Mongolian has some wild Eurasian etymologies! 🥰 My favourite one is nom ᠨᠣᠮ ('book'), from Greek νόμος, via Sogdian and Old Uyghur. The semantic shift 'custom, law' > 'scripture' > 'book' is lovely.
Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀
@kebuhcah.bsky.social
Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀
@kebuhcah.bsky.social
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Join us in London next Thursday!
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Join us in London next Thursday!
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Il Bhutan ha fatto incetta di bitcoin, e gli sta andando bene
Il Bhutan ha fatto incetta di bitcoin, e gli sta andando bene
È uno dei paesi con le riserve più grandi al mondo, che ha già iniziato a sfruttare
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June 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Il Bhutan ha fatto incetta di bitcoin, e gli sta andando bene
His Majesty's words inspired hope and unity in every heart. འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གི་བརྗོད་དོན་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་ཚོགས་བཅར་བསྐྱོད་གཏོང་།
#Bhutan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyY8...
#Bhutan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyY8...
117th National Day Speech -His Majesty The King of Bhutan || Speech by King of Bhutan
YouTube video by Bhutan
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December 23, 2024 at 2:30 PM
His Majesty's words inspired hope and unity in every heart. འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གི་བརྗོད་དོན་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་ཚོགས་བཅར་བསྐྱོད་གཏོང་།
#Bhutan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyY8...
#Bhutan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyY8...
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Greatly looking forward to this excellent roundtable on “Atlanticism in a Changing World” - and the entire conference in Copenhagen on 9-10 December! With many thanks to Haakon Ikonomou for making it all happen!
December 2, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Greatly looking forward to this excellent roundtable on “Atlanticism in a Changing World” - and the entire conference in Copenhagen on 9-10 December! With many thanks to Haakon Ikonomou for making it all happen!
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The Bitcoin delusion is built on the economic orthodoxy so beloved of Jason Furman & 'monetarists' @gilesyb.bsky.social Namely that money is a commodity and is scarce... The delusions behind a bitcoin strategic reserve on.ft.com/3Z1vhGk
The delusions behind a bitcoin strategic reserve
It is a resilience strategy for the ‘hodlers’, not the US state
on.ft.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The Bitcoin delusion is built on the economic orthodoxy so beloved of Jason Furman & 'monetarists' @gilesyb.bsky.social Namely that money is a commodity and is scarce... The delusions behind a bitcoin strategic reserve on.ft.com/3Z1vhGk
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A long message was posted on Gwyneth Ho’s Facebook page on Tuesday after the former journalist was among 45 pro-democracy figures jailed over their roles in a primary election. Ho was sentenced to seven years in jail.
In full: https://buff.ly/3Z2UtMS
File photo: Gwyneth Ho, via Facebook.
In full: https://buff.ly/3Z2UtMS
File photo: Gwyneth Ho, via Facebook.
November 19, 2024 at 11:02 AM
A long message was posted on Gwyneth Ho’s Facebook page on Tuesday after the former journalist was among 45 pro-democracy figures jailed over their roles in a primary election. Ho was sentenced to seven years in jail.
In full: https://buff.ly/3Z2UtMS
File photo: Gwyneth Ho, via Facebook.
In full: https://buff.ly/3Z2UtMS
File photo: Gwyneth Ho, via Facebook.
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While Beijing hailed Hong Kong's rule of law following the jailing of 45 pro-democracy figures, foreign states and rights groups condemned the case.
In full: https://buff.ly/4i9tF6n
In full: https://buff.ly/4i9tF6n
Hong Kong 47: Taiwan and overseas groups condemn case
While Beijing hailed Hong Kong's rule of law following the jailing of 45 pro-democracy figures, foreign states and rights groups condemned the case.
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November 19, 2024 at 11:15 AM
While Beijing hailed Hong Kong's rule of law following the jailing of 45 pro-democracy figures, foreign states and rights groups condemned the case.
In full: https://buff.ly/4i9tF6n
In full: https://buff.ly/4i9tF6n
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For anyone interested in the origins of war, the challenges of peacemaking and what shaped international history, and order, in the “long” 20th century. An in-depth interview about my work.
www.e-ir.info/2024/11/03/i...
www.e-ir.info/2024/11/03/i...
Interview – Patrick Cohrs
Patrick Cohrs discusses his interpretation of the post World War One Trans-Atlantic order and the Paris Peace Conference, plus the current state of liberal democracy.
www.e-ir.info
November 8, 2024 at 3:12 PM
For anyone interested in the origins of war, the challenges of peacemaking and what shaped international history, and order, in the “long” 20th century. An in-depth interview about my work.
www.e-ir.info/2024/11/03/i...
www.e-ir.info/2024/11/03/i...
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My book, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social in March 2020, provides a fresh edition of the Pahlavi translation (Zand) of an Old Avestan text known as Yasna Haptaŋhāiti. It reframes the Zand and Zoroastrian Middle Persian texts as work of late antique exegesis. (1/7)
August 12, 2024 at 2:58 PM
My book, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social in March 2020, provides a fresh edition of the Pahlavi translation (Zand) of an Old Avestan text known as Yasna Haptaŋhāiti. It reframes the Zand and Zoroastrian Middle Persian texts as work of late antique exegesis. (1/7)
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Got my copy of the Chinese version of A Translucent Mirror.
November 17, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Got my copy of the Chinese version of A Translucent Mirror.
My book Mongolian Independence and the British: Geopolitics and Diplomacy in High Asia, 1911–1916, E-International Relations, Bristol, England 2022. Free to download:
Mongolian Independence and the British: Geopolitics and Diplomacy in High Asia, 1911–1916
Utilising archival documents, this book focuses on High Asian diplomatic, geopolitical and trade issues from the point of view of the British in the period between the late Ch’ing dynasty and the earl...
www.e-ir.info
November 15, 2024 at 4:33 AM
My book Mongolian Independence and the British: Geopolitics and Diplomacy in High Asia, 1911–1916, E-International Relations, Bristol, England 2022. Free to download: