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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 28d

Have a good journey! Looking forward to meeting tomorrow

Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 29d

No, day train - started 6 AM today in Munich and am scheduled to arrive this evening - but you took the night train, then?

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 29d

Today on a long train journey to Växjö, Sweden, for the upcoming ENIUGH Conference!

View from train window on rails and other trains against a rising sun

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 7

It seems the day my book came out my LMU e-mail went down, so that all e-mails sent to me now mysteriously bounce back. If you contacted me in the last days, please DM me here

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tom Menger's new book is out now - with @kimatiwagner.bsky.social blurb "In The Colonial Way of War, Menger presents a masterclass in transimperial history", congrats @tommenger.bsky.social!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

www.cambridge.org

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks!

Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you! I would be honoured!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Indeed...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

That's what the cover ended up being after the rejection of seven previous proposals… 😅

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks, Huw!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you!

Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks, Kim!

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · Sep 5

I have been looking forward to @tommenger.bsky.social's book on colonial warfare for some time now, and it's amazing to see that it's finally out. A must for anyone who's interested in the study of violence in a transimperial comparative framework...

Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

shorturl.at

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Dankjewel!

Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you!

Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

… finally reveals how specific practices of violence, such as colonial genocide or scorched earth, can be best understood from a transimperial perspective.

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

…not only traces shared practices of colonial violence but equally conceptualises a shared body of thought behind this violence. In a 2nd step, it explores how transimperial connectivity, in publications and in human mobility, contributed to bringing this shared thought&practice into being. It...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

shorturl.at

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Aug 26

My author copies already came today! Online version is not yet available, but hard copies can already be ordered and official publication date should be very soon!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Jul 29

Source?

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Jul 21

It's now been confirmed: my book The Colonial Way of War will finally come out in early August! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

www.cambridge.org

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Jul 15

The AI-generated podcast grasped most of the article’s points and mastered academic speech, but (as I think is often the case with AI) it also remained strangely superficial and somewhat unfocused and kept circling back slightly redundantly to the same points

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Jul 15

Newest in AI craze: Academia.edu now pushes AI-generated reviews of my own uploads on me: an AI-generated review of a book review (!)&a podcast in which a supposed Academia director has a “friendly chat” with undefined listeners (“folks”) abt an article of mine. Things are getting very weird indeed

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · Jul 8

Slightly different archive today than the ones I am used to!

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