Hi, new followers! This fab trailer for a live online @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social book event summarizes HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, just out from @ucpress.bsky.social. 1/n 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbG... - ThreadSky

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social • 22 days ago

Hi, new followers! This fab trailer for a live online @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social book event summarizes HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, just out from @ucpress.bsky.social. 1/n

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbGDLoZf68

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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•22 days ago

Why do humans make monsters, and what do monsters tell us about humanity? Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. In this book I show how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and invented race, gender, and nations along the way. 2/n

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•22 days ago

Captions:

MS Ludwig XV 4. Digital image courtesy of Getty’s Open Content Program, fol. 117v.

Program for The Tempest, Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration, New York, 1916. The cover shows Caliban. Program Collection, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. 3/n

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•22 days ago

Captions (contd.)

Pierre Boaistuau, the “monster of Kraków,” in Histoires prodigieuses, a compendium of remarkable births and events, 1559. MS 136, Public Domain Mark, Wellcome Collection, London, [fol. 29v]. 4/n

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•22 days ago

Captions (contd.)

“Krao,” the “Missing Link,” poster advertising the exhibition of Krao at the Royal Aquarium, London , 1887. EPH 499A:18, Wellcome Collection. 5/n

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•21 days ago

Want to hear more? Join me at a book event online (April 17, 24, 27), or in NYC (April 8 and 9), Philly (April 17), or London (April 27 and 28)! 6/n

Links to events: https://www.surekhadavies.org/booktour

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•21 days ago

Would you like to sample some of the book? For excerpts available to view for free, see: 7/n

https://www.surekhadavies.org/essays-and-reviews

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•14 days ago

This looks so great! Is it released?

partickle.bsky.social•21 days ago

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