Wow, @universitypress.cambridge.org keeps putting out bangers on early modern Japan!
Can’t wait for Laura Nenzi’s Japan After Dark, which challenges the idea that 19th-c. electrification disenchanted night
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There are over 380 issues of the Japanese journal 婦人衞生雜誌, 1888-1926 on Internet Archive to read or download. This is a key source in the study of the rise of modern concept of hygiene in Japan and a turn to a focus on women's bodies in public health. archive.org/search?query...
This is exactly it. The work is the point.
No I don't need to buy another book that's not immediately relevant to the book that I'm supposed to be writing NOW, but....sometimes the book cover just draws you in and...
In a week!
Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) on her new book “A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan”, in conversation with Yumi Kim (University of California Berkeley) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6602790
Hey #Slystorians and #Alaskasky! Now is a great time to order my book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II” for 40% off plus free domestic shipping if you order through the UW Press website with the discount code: WARM26
Woohoo!
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Good explainer from @leedrutman.bsky.social on why "ban gerrymandering" within the context of single-member districts is deceptively oversimplified. There is no such thing as any one objectively right measure of non-gerrymandered fairness, and they all have predictable partisan biases.
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Moss on Stone
The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
Winner of the 2025 Robert M. Utley Award, Western History AssociationWinner of the 2025 John C. Ewers Award, Western History AssociationWinner of the 2025 Ro...
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Fair maps require a definition of fair. There isn't one. There are infinite ones.
