Tweeting Historians
Rotating acct ft. a new historian each wk. Don’t use content w/o permission. Founder & manager @SasanianShah. Tweets this week: @DrJSchramm
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🧵4 by @BennoWeiner for #TweetHistorians @HistoryCMU In recent years, China under Xi Jinping seems to have embraced a "second-generation ethnic policy," the latest iteration of a c...
So, let's talk about the #Fatimid (909-1171) who dominated the tenth-century Mediterranean world forming a maritime empire from the Atlantic in the West to Arabia and Levant in th...
WORK & LIVELIHOODS IN THE MAHJAR: today, I will share a few stories about the Syrian diaspora's labor economy, 1890s-1934. We will talk about peddling, factory work, and the stor...
Today is my last day here! It’s been really fun sharing with you my research on Britain’s political relationship w Bahrain especially in the last ten years before Britain’s formal...
London & the British Residency in the Gulf knew that military presence wasn’t going to fly - not in the 1960s with #Nasserism at its height & the #BritishEmpire increasingly dwindl...
In 1926, Charles Belgrave became Adviser to the Khalifa family. He exercised control over #Bahrain ‘s diplomacy, the economy, domestic issues, & even the judiciary. He was a symbol...
Hello 👋🏽 I’ll start with a little background. #Britain has had a long relationship with the nations of the #PersianGulf, beginning with the East India Company (@PeterGood7 knows mo...