Anthony Ballas
tonyjballas.bsky.social
Anthony Ballas
@tonyjballas.bsky.social
@DukeU Literature | @3ammagazine, @monthly_review, @NatCounterPunch, @scalawagmag, @proteanmag & more | Internationalism, Haitian Revolution, Melville | Host: De Facto Podcast, Co-Host Cold War Cinema Podcast
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Wonderful on you and Gerald - thanks for letting me know, Tony! 🤗

And I'm tagging @sjzimmerman.bsky.social! She recently posted that her book is now in open access: bsky.app/profile/sjzi...
Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!

Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.

Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Militarizing Marriage
Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Amazing! Thanks for letting me know, Alyssa! And @sjzimmerman.bsky.social, we really appreciated your excellent scholarship 🙏
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Very cool!

Sarah J. Zimmerman has a wonderful dissertation on the tirailleurs: escholarship.org/uc/item/4x19...

If interested, Gerald and I just wrote a bit about them as well in a section of this (we cite your work on Abbé Grégoire—starts on PDF page 15): www.iskrabooks.org/_files/ugd/e...
Living Beyond Boundaries: West African Servicemen in French Colonial Conflicts, 1908-1962
Author(s): Zimmerman, Sarah Jean | Advisor(s): Kanogo, Tabitha | Abstract: Living Beyond Boundaries: West African Servicemen in French Colonial Conflicts, 1908-1962, is a history of French West Africa...
escholarship.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Agreed!
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🙏 ✊️
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Portolan
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November 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Portolan
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portolan-journal.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM