mmccord.bsky.social
Early Modern East India Company, Bombay (Mumbai), Britain, Empire. History PhD at Chicago.
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And on the flip side, us historians of 17th/18th C England often argue it's the expanding bureaucracy that enabled the growth of the English empire and the winning of a big pile o'wars.
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Highly recommend the oral typhoid if you can remember to follow the instructions! I haven't had it in a while but iirc it lasts longer
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Describing original face books as tools of social reproduction, which Harvard students could use to select Harvard spouses and have Harvard babies--I miss the version of me that had never heard "Wellesley to wed, BC to bed, Harvard to talk to"
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You might start with some of those edited collections reviewing/reevaluating Scientific Revolution historio from around 2000? I seem to remember these being frequently assigned to HoS folks for orals/comps?
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Bombay! Is not! Bengal! It! Can! Never! Be! Bengal!
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In brief: reasons for pursuing territorially extractive imperial policy in Bengal on part of English do not make sense in Western India, so we need to explicate why the Clive argument wins (if it wins, which I argue it doesn't--at least not totally)
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We mostly assign John Neale, Patrick Collinson, and maybe GR Elton or Wallace McCaffrey for qualifying exams in my department with modules on Tudor history. I believe some of these authors have written scholarly biographies!
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we really should replace our car, but that's still a big purchase for us (since the current one is paid off), so we're waffling.
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would love an add, you're doing great service for our community with this!