Alex Levine
@alexmaxlevine.bsky.social
PhD student at UCLA studying 20th-century European internationalisms
https://history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine/
https://history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine/
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They need to add a haček, but other than that, I quite like our cover.
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
They need to add a haček, but other than that, I quite like our cover.
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My book on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s is available for preorder (discount code: CUP20), for more info and kind words of Dagmar Herzog and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social see: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...
Progress from the Margins | Columbia University Press
The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities differs markedly from other forms of international human rights law: it not onl... | CUP
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November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My book on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s is available for preorder (discount code: CUP20), for more info and kind words of Dagmar Herzog and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social see: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...
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I've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out!
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November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out!
lsupress.org/978080718678...
lsupress.org/978080718678...
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The newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...
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Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.
New article (OA): Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social on 'Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain'
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Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain*
Abstract. This article explores how Britons envisaged and planned for the end of working life across the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how
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October 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.
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📣 Latest content in English
'Two Protestant Assemblies in #Tianjin: In Search of Markers of Certainty'
by Isabelle Thireau (@ehess.fr)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
'Two Protestant Assemblies in #Tianjin: In Search of Markers of Certainty'
by Isabelle Thireau (@ehess.fr)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
📣 Latest content in English
'Two Protestant Assemblies in #Tianjin: In Search of Markers of Certainty'
by Isabelle Thireau (@ehess.fr)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
'Two Protestant Assemblies in #Tianjin: In Search of Markers of Certainty'
by Isabelle Thireau (@ehess.fr)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
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📘 Article Highlight
One of Andrew’s recent FWWS publications was co-authored with Fiona Houston:
“The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930.”
www.tandfonline.com
The article examines war-related publishing in the late 1920s and explores how this shaped British cultural memory of the conflict.
One of Andrew’s recent FWWS publications was co-authored with Fiona Houston:
“The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930.”
www.tandfonline.com
The article examines war-related publishing in the late 1920s and explores how this shaped British cultural memory of the conflict.
The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930
Based on a dataset of unparalleled extent containing nearly 1500 books, this article for the first time offers an analysis of the War Books Boom that combines the qualitative and quantitative. The ...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
📘 Article Highlight
One of Andrew’s recent FWWS publications was co-authored with Fiona Houston:
“The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930.”
www.tandfonline.com
The article examines war-related publishing in the late 1920s and explores how this shaped British cultural memory of the conflict.
One of Andrew’s recent FWWS publications was co-authored with Fiona Houston:
“The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930.”
www.tandfonline.com
The article examines war-related publishing in the late 1920s and explores how this shaped British cultural memory of the conflict.
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Bravo to Ideas on Fire author Reena Goldthree, whose new book Democracy's Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean is out now from @princetonupress.bsky.social! 👏
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#IoFAuthors
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#IoFAuthors
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Bravo to Ideas on Fire author Reena Goldthree, whose new book Democracy's Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean is out now from @princetonupress.bsky.social! 👏
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#IoFAuthors
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#IoFAuthors
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🏭 New Special Issue on Industrial Urbanisms and Entangled Modernities in Eurasia edited by Victoria Fomina
🔗 Introduction doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
🔗 Introduction doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🏭 New Special Issue on Industrial Urbanisms and Entangled Modernities in Eurasia edited by Victoria Fomina
🔗 Introduction doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
🔗 Introduction doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
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Fresh out of the press (well, digitally)! My new article is out – it looks at how the Bohemian Forest’s ‘peripherality’ was shaped and used in early Czech tourism before WWI. If tourism history, media, or borderland dynamics interest you, check it out! rurallandscapesjournal.com/articles/10....
Instrumentalising Peripherality: Early Czech Tourism and the Making of the Bohemian Forest As a Destination | Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History
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November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Fresh out of the press (well, digitally)! My new article is out – it looks at how the Bohemian Forest’s ‘peripherality’ was shaped and used in early Czech tourism before WWI. If tourism history, media, or borderland dynamics interest you, check it out! rurallandscapesjournal.com/articles/10....
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What role did Japan play in World War 2? How does our understanding of Global History change if we consider Japan more seriously? You can now re-watch the #DIJForum with Sheldon Garon (Princeton) & Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin) on our YouTube channel
🎬 youtu.be/7pFlPRW8tHU @maxweberstiftung.de
🎬 youtu.be/7pFlPRW8tHU @maxweberstiftung.de
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What role did Japan play in World War 2? How does our understanding of Global History change if we consider Japan more seriously? You can now re-watch the #DIJForum with Sheldon Garon (Princeton) & Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin) on our YouTube channel
🎬 youtu.be/7pFlPRW8tHU @maxweberstiftung.de
🎬 youtu.be/7pFlPRW8tHU @maxweberstiftung.de
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Our volume is finally out! Open access to boot! Personal thanks to Michal Frankl for his patience and trust ...and, of course, to our authors for powering through the long production process. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189929/
Manchester University Press - Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe
Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe by Doina Anca Cretu
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November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Our volume is finally out! Open access to boot! Personal thanks to Michal Frankl for his patience and trust ...and, of course, to our authors for powering through the long production process. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189929/
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Join us for the Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture delivered by our new visiting professor Anja Laukötter (@uni-jena.de)!
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Join us for the Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture delivered by our new visiting professor Anja Laukötter (@uni-jena.de)!
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
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How can the activities of German companies in the Global South be researched? Paul Sprute explores the challenges of researching German postcolonial business in the Global South and demonstrates how these frequently overlooked materials can provide valuable insights. 👇
The Archives of German Construction Companies and their Post-Colonial Projects
By Paul Sprute How can one research the activities of German companies in the Global South? In this blog post, I present an overview of archives relating to construction companies as one sector of German post-colonial business stemming from the work in the research project “Conquering (with) Concrete: German Construction Companies as Global Players in… Continue reading The Archives of German Construction Companies and their Post-Colonial Projects
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November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How can the activities of German companies in the Global South be researched? Paul Sprute explores the challenges of researching German postcolonial business in the Global South and demonstrates how these frequently overlooked materials can provide valuable insights. 👇
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Thanks to Jonah Berger at EUI for writing this review of our section in Bonn!
It was great to bring together people from our Arbeitsgemeinschaft on historical landscape research and as always a pleasure to work with @lucowitz.bsky.social and Solveig Vanniez-Salvesen.
It was great to bring together people from our Arbeitsgemeinschaft on historical landscape research and as always a pleasure to work with @lucowitz.bsky.social and Solveig Vanniez-Salvesen.
HT 2025: Micropolitics of Landscape. Power and Control in the Invisible Spaces (1750-1950s)
Landscapes are often considered – subconsciously in most cases – as passive, vast, and empty spaces. Consequently, discussions about dynamics of power within landscapes tend to match the immensity of ...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Thanks to Jonah Berger at EUI for writing this review of our section in Bonn!
It was great to bring together people from our Arbeitsgemeinschaft on historical landscape research and as always a pleasure to work with @lucowitz.bsky.social and Solveig Vanniez-Salvesen.
It was great to bring together people from our Arbeitsgemeinschaft on historical landscape research and as always a pleasure to work with @lucowitz.bsky.social and Solveig Vanniez-Salvesen.
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Why don't we have an EU wide carbon tax? Well, some people worked as hard as they could to stop it. Important new research by Fabienne Jouty and Christophe Bonneuil!
Undermining Climate Action: The Fight by European Oil Companies Against the European Carbon Tax
This article examines, in the lead-up to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, the role played by five major European oil companies—BP in the United Kingdom, Shell in the Netherlands and UK, ENI in Italy, ...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Why don't we have an EU wide carbon tax? Well, some people worked as hard as they could to stop it. Important new research by Fabienne Jouty and Christophe Bonneuil!
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#OpenAccess! HABSBURG NATURES: Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918, edited by Jawad Daheur and Iva Lučić has now been published.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3W3h8Y1
#History #EnvironmentalStudies
Find out more here: bit.ly/3W3h8Y1
#History #EnvironmentalStudies
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#OpenAccess! HABSBURG NATURES: Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918, edited by Jawad Daheur and Iva Lučić has now been published.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3W3h8Y1
#History #EnvironmentalStudies
Find out more here: bit.ly/3W3h8Y1
#History #EnvironmentalStudies
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In Great Power Diplomacy, A. Wess Mitchell reveals how history’s most legendary empires have used diplomacy as a tool of grand strategy to outwit, outmaneuver, & outlast militarily superior opponents.
Out now (9 Dec UK pub). Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #PoliSci
Out now (9 Dec UK pub). Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #PoliSci
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In Great Power Diplomacy, A. Wess Mitchell reveals how history’s most legendary empires have used diplomacy as a tool of grand strategy to outwit, outmaneuver, & outlast militarily superior opponents.
Out now (9 Dec UK pub). Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #PoliSci
Out now (9 Dec UK pub). Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #PoliSci
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Today marks publication day for my book When Fitness Went Global!
It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape.
Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...
It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape.
Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Today marks publication day for my book When Fitness Went Global!
It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape.
Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...
It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape.
Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...
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The First Real Peace Settlement after the First World War. Why we can still learn a lot from the Locarno Pact - after 100 years. My latest essay for Engelsberg Ideas:
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The Locarno Pact's enduring legacy
The Locarno Pact of 1925 provided the foundations for a more just, durable and peaceful European order. Although its early promise was snuffed out by the global crisis of the 1930s, the pact's guiding...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The First Real Peace Settlement after the First World War. Why we can still learn a lot from the Locarno Pact - after 100 years. My latest essay for Engelsberg Ideas:
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-l...
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-l...
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#CfP : Doing #Migration History with Digital Methods.
Deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
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Deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
dhdhi.hypotheses.org/12659
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#CfP : Doing #Migration History with Digital Methods.
Deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
dhdhi.hypotheses.org/12659
Deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
dhdhi.hypotheses.org/12659
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András Nagy - Diplomacy and Disregard
The Hungarian Revolution and the United Nations 1956–1963
À paraître en janvier aux Indiana UP
The Hungarian Revolution and the United Nations 1956–1963
À paraître en janvier aux Indiana UP
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
András Nagy - Diplomacy and Disregard
The Hungarian Revolution and the United Nations 1956–1963
À paraître en janvier aux Indiana UP
The Hungarian Revolution and the United Nations 1956–1963
À paraître en janvier aux Indiana UP
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Tomorrow! Join us for this seminar with Anders Blomqvist to find out how #Sweden responded to the evolving 'Transylvanian Question' from the post–WWI settlement through the late communist period in #Romania.
🗓️ 11 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 11 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Tomorrow! Join us for this seminar with Anders Blomqvist to find out how #Sweden responded to the evolving 'Transylvanian Question' from the post–WWI settlement through the late communist period in #Romania.
🗓️ 11 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 11 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Unser Sammelband "Hamburg: Tor zur kolonialen Welt. Erinnerungsorte der (post-)kolonialen Globalisierung" ist jetzt als open access Version vollständig frei verfügbar: www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
Hamburg. Tor zur kolonialen Welt | Wallstein Open Library
Als wichtigster Hafen Deutschlands war Hamburg auch zentrale Kolonialmetropole. Das »Tor zur Welt« war über Jahrhunderte ein Tor zur kolonialen Welt. Man hatte Handelsbeziehungen zu Kolonialmächten un...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Unser Sammelband "Hamburg: Tor zur kolonialen Welt. Erinnerungsorte der (post-)kolonialen Globalisierung" ist jetzt als open access Version vollständig frei verfügbar: www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de