Daniel Banks

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

📚Exploring early modern transatlantic migration

Join the book presentation by our researcher Alejandro Salamanca (@desvelandooriente.com) on the history of early modern migrants in the Spanish Atlantic and the networks they forged.

📅 4 February, 17:00
👉 Register: loom.ly/15ie5w4

couldn't agree more!

Tra società e potere. Studi di storia per Marco Meriggi Il rapporto tra società, istituzioni e potere è stato sempre al centro dei vari interessi di ricerca di Marco Meriggi, a cui questo volume rende omaggio. I saggi che lo compongono coprono un arco temp...

Un omaggio a un amico e maestro con affetto e gratitudine ☺️

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A wonderful and very pertinent wrap up of one of the funnest and most intellectually stimulating conferences I have attended so far!

A Spanish Commune The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book.In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commune, ...

Out today!!! "A Spanish Commune", about a little Spanish sister of the Paris Commune.
Endorsements from Kristin Ross and José Carlos Moya here:
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@versobooks.bsky.social @cataratalibros.bsky.social

Rethinking labour politics, political violence, and brutalisation thesis!

🔥Le nouveau numéro de Source(s) vient de paraître !
Avec un dossier consacré aux « Mémoires transnationales des révolutions au XIXe siècle (1820-1871) », vous y trouverez aussi une contribution de ma part📘
🙏 Merci à N. Bourguinat et A. Dupont !
👉Pour l’intégralité : shs.hal.science/halshs-05285...

A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/

Are you an early-career researcher working with environmental history? Join ESEH Nextgate! Part of the ESEH, Nextgate promotes and supports work by #EnvHist scholars from students to post-docs. Whether or not you'd like to join, make sure to follow @esehnextgate.bsky.social for upcoming events!

¡Tenemos nuevo número de Historia y Política! Iremos compartiendo su contenido en las próximas semanas:

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I'm also incredibly excited (and feel quite humbled) about this prize! Thanks so much Dominique for sharing. For those who are interested, P&P's very kind editors have made the article open access for the next three months:

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It's a fascinating history from below that brings this revolutionary moment to life in vivid detail and reminds readers of its importance, while connecting it to anticolonial struggles in Cuba and the Philippines and to Mediterranean networks of exile and contraband. Well worth a read!

I'm so happy to see one of my favourite books come out in English next week! Jeanne takes readers on an incredible journey through a Spanish Commune-style revolution that lasted much longer than its Paris counterpart, with impressive details on the lives and ideas of its everyday supporters.

JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY

The new issue of @modernitaly.bsky.social is finally out & it's the special issue I guest edited with Maria Stella Chiaruttini, entitled: Turning Points and Transformations in Contemporary Italy: A Century of Big Changes Through ‘Small Histories’

snappy, I know...
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A fascinating, thought-provoking interview by @marcobresciani.bsky.social and @stefanobottoni.bsky.social of the much admired and astoundingly influential historian of the Habsburg Monarchy and Europe, Pieter Judson. Don't miss it! www.francoangeli.it/riviste/arti...

The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!

Screenshot of an article title page. 'An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia' by Mikko Toivanen. Abstract: This article examines the development of colonial public culture in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, over the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on two moments of extended colonial ceremony: the city’s 250th anniversary in 1869 and the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898. The analysis shows that over the course of the century, colonial ceremonial increasingly sought to assimilate facets of local cultural practices, while also expanding spatially into a more diverse set of neighbourhoods. Nevertheless, this new and superficially more representative order still maintained a strict internal hierarchy embedded in spatial and socio-cultural boundaries.

New week, new publication! 🎉 Excited to see my article 'An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia' out in @urbanhistory.bsky.social! And it's Open Access, too, so feel free to check it out (and share, maybe?): doi.org/10.1017/S096...

📢¡Anunciamos la publicación de un nuevo número! Se trata del vol. 138 (2/2025), compuesto por un dosier coord. por Assumpta Castillo y Joan Pubill, cuatro estudios y un ensayo bibliográfico. En abierto, aquí: revistasmarcialpons.es/revistaayer/...

Estamos realizando una muy bonita encuesta: "Ser historiador.a hoy en España".
Y necesitamos que seais muchos y muchas las que contesteis nuestro cuestionario aqui 🙏🙏
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My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You can find the full call here: www.ssmeridionale.it/avcp/bando-d...

The Scuola Superiore Meridionale has an exciting and interdisciplinary English-language PhD program with generous funding for research stays and exchanges + great opportunities for international mentoring. I'm happy to answer any questions on the program and admissions process!

Come join us in Naples! 5 PhD positions in Global History starting in November with 4 years of funding. Deadline 27 August.

www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Immobility Abstract. Increasingly, since the early years of the twenty-first century, some have questioned the relevance of historians’ ‘fetishization of mobility’ in

Thrilled to see this published (free!) in Past&Present - though it unfortunately feels more relevant than ever... @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
And feeling fortunate to have been able to do this with two of the most talented historians Malika Zehni & Lamin Manneh ❤️
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Cover M. Isabella, Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions

Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales

Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions' (@princetonupress.bsky.social)

'Une manière #méridionale de traverser l’âge des #révolutions'

par Juan Luis Simal

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Cover : Maurizio Isabella, Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions

Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales

#Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern #Europe in the Age of #Revolutions'

'Mobilités et espaces des révolutions' par Lucy Riall

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@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site, "New Voices", for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post on any aspect of European history and its empires since 1914? Contact cehnewvoices@gmail.com (via @dominiquereill.bsky.social)