Historian. Working on the history of colonialism in Africa from a global perspective at Ghent University. Also doing history of science and medicine.
PI ERC Project CATTLEFRONTIERS www.cattlefrontiers.eu
Ex-Berliner. Academic Dad.
Samuël Coghe
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It is hard to grasp that no institution in the US seems to be able or willing to prevent their president and his crusaders from committing blatant war crimes.
If a single man has the power to bomb other countries without any mandate of Congress, cause a global economic crisis and commit war crimes as he sees fit, the US of A is, besides all other things, clearly a failed democracy.
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
We have a new blog post up on our website where team member Paulo Matos talks about some of his experiences conducting fieldwork in Angola earlier this year: cattlefrontiers.eu/paulo-matos-...
Sur Jacques Revel, grand passeur de la microstoria, qui vient de décéder
www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
History repeating, the same procedure as in Gaza... This world now needs courageous politicians to stop these illegal wars. Yet historians have a long memory and will bring up the cruelties and war crimes for decades to come! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #WarCrimes #genocide
My chapter ‘Livestock Commodities in a Globalizing World: Between Pastoralism and Capitalism’ has been published in Open Acces (doi.org/10.4324/9781...) in the fantastic Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism. All you ever wanted to know about why and how meat, milk and hides became global commodities.
From 3 to 5 June 2026, the ERC Starting Grant Project CATTLEFRONTIERS organised the international workshop 'Cattle Commodifation in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire'.
Samuël Coghe
Samuël Coghe
The journal "Monde(s)" organised a debate around my book "Catholicism and the mkaing of politics" with Profs Elizabeth A. Foster, Samuël Coghe, Markku Hokkanen and myself. Here: shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes...
#Mozambique #Africa #Catholic #History #Politics #Church #Diocese #Sociology
This chapter analyzes how, and with what consequences, livestock commodities became an increasingly important feature of the global economy, from the late 18th
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
Eric Morier-Genoud
Bill McKibben
L’historien, qui a notamment travaillé sur la société d’Ancien Régime, a contribué à promouvoir la microhistoire, pour mieux approcher les réalités passées. Il s’est éteint jeudi 12 mars, à l’âge de 8...
