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Megan

This aside blew my mind🤯 :

"The cops were founded in 1829 in London essentially as a counterinsurgency force and that has been the model for cops ever since."

From the Colonial Outcasts podcast episode "US-Israel: Breaking down the political ties"

In the 🧵 thread below...

1. What's counterinsurgency?
2. What was happening in London leading up to 1829?
3. Who do police protect?
4. What other police forces fit this model?

(1/5)
#ACAB #Histodon #Policing #CounterInsurgency

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Catherine Rideau-Kikuchi

Dans le dernier numéro de Genèses, une passionnante discussion de Marie Fontaine-Gastan autour d'un livre qui avait remué les médiévistes (et peut-être aussi les sociologues) il y a deux ans :
Champ ecclésial et pouvoir symbolique au cœur de la sociologie du Moyen Âge
À propos de : Alexis Fontbonne, Introduction à la sociologie médiévale, CNRS Éd., 2023.
shs.cairn.info/revue-geneses-2

Page de couverture du livre Introduction à la sociologie médiévale d'Alexis Fontbonne. L'image de couverture est une enluminure médiévale, représentant deux saints, un livre chacun à la main, assis sur un banc et (peut-être) en train de discuter
#medievistodon#histodon#histodons
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DoomsdaysCW

20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder

in History | January 20th, 2017

"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.

"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."

openculture.com/2017/01/20-les
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism

Open Culture20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism, According to Yale Historian Timothy SnyderTimothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s.
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DoomsdaysCW

When #DietrichBonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How #Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the #Nazis (1942)

in History, Politics | March 26th, 2025

"Two days after Adolf #Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by the regime for association with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Even while imprisoned, he kept thinking about the origins of the political mania that had overtaken Germany. The force of central importance to Hitler’s rise was not evil, he concluded, but stupidity.

"'Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice,' Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter to his co-conspirators on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship. 'One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.' When provoked, 'the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.'

"Fighting stupidity, to Bonhoeffer’s mind, first necessitates understanding it. 'In essence not an intellectual defect but a human one,' stupidity can descend upon practically anyone: 'under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.' And it happens most noticeably when a particular figure or movement seizes the attention of the public. 'Every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity,' he writes. Since such phenomena could hardly arise without blindly obedient masses, it seems that 'the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.'

"You can see Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity explained in the illustrated Sprouts video above, and you can learn more about the man himself from the documentary Bonhoeffer. Or, better yet, read his collection, Letters and Papers from Prison. Though rooted in his time, culture, and religion, his thought remains relevant wherever humans follow the crowd. 'The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent,' he writes, which held as true in the public squares of wartime Europe as it does on the social-media platforms of today. 'In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken possession of him.' Whatever would surprise Bonhoeffer about our time, he would know exactly what we mean when we call stupid people 'tools.'"

openculture.com/2025/03/when-d
#Histodon #History #USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #BalladOfTheLittleMan

Open CultureWhen Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader.
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Ministerratsprotokolle

#OTD Am 28. März 1865, beschloss der #Ministerrat

"aus Anlaß der in #Petersburg herrschenden epidemischen #Krankheit (Flecktyphus), welche mit bedeutender Ansteckungsgefahr verbunden sein und schon viele Opfer hingerafft haben soll, österreichische Ärzte so rasch als möglich dahin abzusenden".

mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #Geschichte
#Habsburgermonarchie #Ministerrat
#Sozialgeschichte #Seuchen #Epidemie

Microscope image of a cell, courtesy of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Tania Lévy

Conférence de Laura Pennane'ch le 3 avril à Brest : « Pour une histoire de la médecine par l'image : l'exemple de la peinture néerlandaise au 17e siècle ».

"Quelle histoire de la médecine permettent de faire les images peintes ? Cette communication s'appuiera sur un corpus de tableaux peints dans la seconde moitié du 17e siècle à Leyde, dans la province de Hollande, [connue] pour son université (...)."

Il est possible de la suivre à distance : cfv.univ-nantes.fr/seminaires-

Centre François VièteSéminaires et manifestations scientifiques
#HistoireDelArt#Histoire#Histodon
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 📖 **Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome**

“_Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes._”

🔗 doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11453670.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Romans #Academia #UniversityPress @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

doi.orgBeyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome<I>Beyond the River, Under the Eye</I> of Rome presents the Danube frontier of the Roman empire as the central stage for many of the most important political and military events of Roman history, from Trajan's invasion of Dacia and the Marcomannic Wars, to the humbling of the Roman state power at the hands of the Goths and Huns. Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes.<I> Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome</I> explores how Roman stereotypical perceptions of specific Danubian peoples directly influenced some of the most politically significant events of Roman antiquity. <BR /><BR /> Drawing on textual, inscriptional, and archaeological evidence, Hart illustrates how Roman ethnic and ecological stereotypes were employed in the Danubian borderland to support the imperial frontier edifice fundamentally at odds with the region's natural topography. Distorted Roman perceptions of these Danubian neighbors resulted in disastrous mismanagement of border wars and migrant crises throughout the first five centuries CE. <I>Beyond the River </I>demonstrates how state-supported stereotypes, when coupled with Roman military and economic power, exerted strong influences on the social structures and evolving group identities of the peoples dwelling in the borderland.
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Maria Candea ✅🍓

Vous connaissez le "è ou ê" ouvert en français? Apparemment on l'a appelé au 17e siècle "e beelant parce qu'il représente au naturel les cry des brebis lors qu'elles beellent" 😋

(Oui, je lis des textes anciens sur la prononciation, ce sont des traces indirectes des évolutions de la langue parlée ; et c'est drôle)

Extrait d'un livre de Sieur Jean Hindret, "l'Art de bien prononcer et bien parler la langue française", en libre accès sur Gallica⤵️

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6

#phonetique #Histodon #histodons #histoire

poke @doctunder

image du texte publié en 1687 en graphie d'origine
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