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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you so much!

Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 2d

Hi! I work on the history of cities and coasts in nineteenth/twentieth-century Southeast Asia, and I would love to be included in this!

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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 2d

I was fortunate to work with two terrific editors, Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu, on this project.

If you'd like to have a look at a digital offprint of the chapter, please send me a message or an email! (3/3)

Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 2d

I examine the reasons behind the meteoric rise and fall of the pineapple industry in early twentieth-century Singapore—once the world's largest exporter of canned pineapples. (2/3)

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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to share my chapter, "A Liminal Commodity: Catch-Cropping, Chinese Capitalists, and the Colonial State in the Pineapple Industry of Singapore, 1900s–1930s", in this new edited volume on the global history of pineapples, published by @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social (1/3)

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 19d

New in the Proceedings of the British Academy series, ‘The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification’ considers the pineapple as a story of modern globalisation: from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable. 👇

https://bit.ly/3K9V4bO

Promotional graphic for a publication from British Academy Publishing featuring the cover of "The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification", which includes a painting of a person in historical attire holding a pineapple.

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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 2d

I examine the reasons behind the meteoric rise and fall of the pineapple industry in early twentieth-century Singapore—once the world's largest exporter of canned pineapples. (2/3)

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 19d

New in the Proceedings of the British Academy series, ‘The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification’ considers the pineapple as a story of modern globalisation: from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable. 👇

https://bit.ly/3K9V4bO

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 21d

It's publication day! 🎉🥳 Very soon I won't need to post about this anymore, but in the meantime, if you're interested in the colonial roots of modern tourism, or the role of leisure travel in producing knowledge about the world, check it out. Also as e-book on JSTOR: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31...

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · Sep 2

Author copies have arrived! The book is demonstrably real! Official publication date in about two weeks but I've heard it will already be available at ENIUGH next week. Check out the full info over at: lup.nl/publications...

Three copies of my monograph Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka on a table, with a Leiden University Press postcard saying "Congratulations!" on top.

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 13d

I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3

Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam

patchworkcities.com

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Title and abstract for the linked article

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · Jun 19

📣 New Special Issue edited by Avner Ofrath and Norman @aselmeyer.bsky.social making its way to #FirstView

🏘️ 'Introduction: Uneasy neighbours: proximity, sociability and difference in the colonial city, c. 1870–1940'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 12d

This was just published, also by @urbanhistory.bsky.social, and it's an urban history of coasts and colonialism. I look at why a series of settlements struggled to survive in Borneo from the late eighteenth century.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo

doi.org

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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 12d

This article came out a few months ago. It's about how the socio-spatial boundaries of towns colonial Sabah (North Borneo) were drawn and transgressed. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

The spaces of colonial towns: urban life in North Borneo, 1900s–1930s | Urban History | Cambridge Core

The spaces of colonial towns: urban life in North Borneo, 1900s–1930s

doi.org

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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 12d

Joining academic social media really late now—it feels like arriving at a party after everyone has left.

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