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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live.
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“Tocqueville came to see Algeria as a French version of the American frontier. His experience of democracy in America justified French colonization of North Africa." Olivier Zunz quoted in Beecher's review of his Tocqueville biography. h-france.net/vol25reviews...

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Wild chart of via Chartbook adamtooze.substack.com/p/military-r...

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I regularly melt students' brains with this. In French, the analogy ("tiers monde" - "tiers état", not "troisième monde") is clearer. Sauvy wrote during the beginnings of decolonization: "car enfin, ce tiers-monde ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le tiers état, veut lui aussi, être quelque chose".

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"Sauvy coined the phrase tiers monde ("third world") in analogy to the Third Estate in the French Revolution." Huh.

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The spitting, specifically! Feels like a Vietnam vet thing, which also did not in fact happen.

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Los Angeles, 2025 📸 afpphoto

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Logos for the Office de la recherche scientifique coloniale from the 1940s and 50s. From Steinmetz.

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Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82

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my main takeaway after spending the afternoon at the national history day competition is that the kids are pretty alright. also, that reactionaries are right to fear the consequences of kids learning the truth.

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This looks interesting--two books free from U of North Dakota Digital Press on the oil field boom and bust cycle's effects on the state. Likely broadly applicable to Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, too.

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This post made me realize I’ve been confusing Roland Garros and Roland Barthes for a few years now, occasionally wondering why the French named a tennis event after a semiotician

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@buildsoil.bsky.social Why Kant in particular that Galton falls back to after Darwin?

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Anthology of Haitian poetry in translation, published in 1934 in *Maine*. It reproduces a letter of support from Stenio Vincent, then president of Haiti. Also has a substantial introduction from Edna Underwood, the translator, that seems really, ah, of its time.

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Grudgingly have agreed to keep older kid's Duolingo streak going for her while she's away at camp.

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Yes

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BikeWalkMHK's 4th Annual Tour de Taco will be held on Saturday, June 28. Tickets are $15 and include tacos from 3 local restaurants. The ride is #PartyPace and chill! #MHK #TourDeTaco www.bikewalkmhk.com/tour-de-taco

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*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

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It's naive I know but I'd like a political party that is clearly committed to democracy, not just to *different* plutocrats.

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