Indeed, the renown publisher Geca Kon rejected the publication as it was too traumatic, with the logic that it is better to forget.
I think the experience of this retreat in 1915 also shaped the decision of Milan Nedić to accept to be the Serbian maréchal Pétain in Second World War.
The Armistice Day post.
Nothing says how it is to be a scholar like a €30 paywall on an article about how hard it is to be an early-career scholar.
The abstract is free, the irony is extra.
Did Nikola Tesla truly sit there as lightning exploded around him?
My new Substack looks at the trick behind the photo, the self-fashioning of scientists, and where Tesla really was in his life when he posed as a “wizard” of electricity.
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"early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita"
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My review of Iryna Vushko’s "Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867–1939" is now online in the Austrian History Yearbook.
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They need to add a haček, but other than that, I quite like our cover.
Everybody loves a bargain, don’t they. Grab yours now, by pre-ordering my new book with a massive discount 👊
My second book is out 🎉
If you are interested in gender policies and Muslim minorities in Eastern Europe, it is on its way to libraries and can already be ordered online. Very excited to finally share this one.
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Miloš Vojinović
Miloš Vojinović
Three Posters by Ernst Deutsch-Dryden (1887–1938; Merrill C. Berman Collection, #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...
Iryna Vushko. Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867–1939. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. Pp. 352.
Communist gender policies were often violent, placing many people, particularly women, in difficult and marginalized positions. Targeted individuals were rarely consulted, yet their clothing and bodil...
Disasters, riots, gangsters and construction … early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita
This (The Sixth Day, by Rastko Petrović) may be a classic of Serbian WW1 literature, but OMG it’s hard work. His publisher refused to publish it because it’s too complicated and grim.