"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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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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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.
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Did Tesla really sit next to millions of volts?
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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
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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Miloš Vojinović
Iryna Vushko. Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867–1939. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. Pp. 352.
They need to add a haček, but other than that, I quite like our cover.
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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Three Posters by Ernst Deutsch-Dryden (1887–1938; Merrill C. Berman Collection, #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...
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...
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Rok Stergar
Dr Ivan Simic
John Raimo
Everybody loves a bargain, don’t they. Grab yours now, by pre-ordering my new book with a massive discount 👊
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.
