Tom Menger
@tommenger.bsky.social
Historian of colonial violence and war, transimperial history c. 1880-1914. Forthcoming book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/colonial-way-of-war/0F3E02F14036481275F425952E91BD5C#fndtn-information
I had the honour to speak to the New Books Network about my book The Colonial Way of War. Very happy to see the podcast has now appeared! And a great thanks to Kelly McFall for kindly inviting and hosting me. newbooksnetwork.com/the-colonial...
Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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February 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I had the honour to speak to the New Books Network about my book The Colonial Way of War. Very happy to see the podcast has now appeared! And a great thanks to Kelly McFall for kindly inviting and hosting me. newbooksnetwork.com/the-colonial...
This is a bit late, but still wanted to say I really enjoyed speaking about my book to Kelly McFall of the New Books Network last Wednesday! The podcast episode should be up soon!
January 20, 2026 at 7:31 PM
This is a bit late, but still wanted to say I really enjoyed speaking about my book to Kelly McFall of the New Books Network last Wednesday! The podcast episode should be up soon!
Passing some quiet days over Christmas I wasn't prepared to see popping up on the historic guest list of a Regensburg café the name of Belgian King Leopold II, the man who plundered the Congo & whose wars and system of forced labour killed & mutilated millions of its inhabitants between 1885-1908...
January 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Passing some quiet days over Christmas I wasn't prepared to see popping up on the historic guest list of a Regensburg café the name of Belgian King Leopold II, the man who plundered the Congo & whose wars and system of forced labour killed & mutilated millions of its inhabitants between 1885-1908...
Book launch! I look forward to presenting my book The Colonial Way of War on 9 December (11:30) at my old workplace in Munich. If you're around and would like to come, please send me a short message as space is limited!
🎉 Book Launch: The Colonial Way of War
📅 9 Dec, 11:30
📍 Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich
We’re excited to welcome former gd:c postdoc Tom Menger back for the launch of his new book with @universitypress.cambridge.org
👉 Publisher link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
📅 9 Dec, 11:30
📍 Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich
We’re excited to welcome former gd:c postdoc Tom Menger back for the launch of his new book with @universitypress.cambridge.org
👉 Publisher link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
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December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Book launch! I look forward to presenting my book The Colonial Way of War on 9 December (11:30) at my old workplace in Munich. If you're around and would like to come, please send me a short message as space is limited!
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Save the Date: 9 December 2025 - Launch event of @tommenger.bsky.social's The Colonial Way of War (published with CUP) at @globaldiscnct.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Save the Date: 9 December 2025 - Launch event of @tommenger.bsky.social's The Colonial Way of War (published with CUP) at @globaldiscnct.bsky.social
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I too really enjoyed @sochistorywar.bsky.social 's annual conference in Potsdam. Good to see many friends and acquaintances and get to know some new ones! And it was a pleasure to present my new research project in our panel on 'Imperial boomerangs' convened by Sibylle Scheipers
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for SHoW 2025! 🇩🇪
Great conversations and even better company. Our members are at the heart of SHoW, and it really showed this year.
Thank you to the ZMSBw and the University of Potsdam for their hospitality!
If you have photos, please DM them our way!📸
Great conversations and even better company. Our members are at the heart of SHoW, and it really showed this year.
Thank you to the ZMSBw and the University of Potsdam for their hospitality!
If you have photos, please DM them our way!📸
December 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I too really enjoyed @sochistorywar.bsky.social 's annual conference in Potsdam. Good to see many friends and acquaintances and get to know some new ones! And it was a pleasure to present my new research project in our panel on 'Imperial boomerangs' convened by Sibylle Scheipers
I was struck today by the fact that this rather new Edeka supermarket ostentatiously displays the German supermarket chain’s origins as a cooperative of Kolonialwarenhändler, i.e. grocers selling predominantly colonial-origin goods. (at Forum Schwanthalerhöhe, Munich, opened 2019)
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I was struck today by the fact that this rather new Edeka supermarket ostentatiously displays the German supermarket chain’s origins as a cooperative of Kolonialwarenhändler, i.e. grocers selling predominantly colonial-origin goods. (at Forum Schwanthalerhöhe, Munich, opened 2019)
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We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...
Today on a long train journey to Växjö, Sweden, for the upcoming ENIUGH Conference!
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Today on a long train journey to Växjö, Sweden, for the upcoming ENIUGH Conference!
It seems the day my book came out my LMU e-mail went down, so that all e-mails sent to me now mysteriously bounce back. If you contacted me in the last days, please DM me here
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
It seems the day my book came out my LMU e-mail went down, so that all e-mails sent to me now mysteriously bounce back. If you contacted me in the last days, please DM me here
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Tom Menger's new book is out now - with @kimatiwagner.bsky.social blurb "In The Colonial Way of War, Menger presents a masterclass in transimperial history", congrats @tommenger.bsky.social!
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The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
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September 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Tom Menger's new book is out now - with @kimatiwagner.bsky.social blurb "In The Colonial Way of War, Menger presents a masterclass in transimperial history", congrats @tommenger.bsky.social!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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I have been looking forward to @tommenger.bsky.social's book on colonial warfare for some time now, and it's amazing to see that it's finally out. A must for anyone who's interested in the study of violence in a transimperial comparative framework...
Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
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September 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I have been looking forward to @tommenger.bsky.social's book on colonial warfare for some time now, and it's amazing to see that it's finally out. A must for anyone who's interested in the study of violence in a transimperial comparative framework...
Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
shorturl.at
September 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2
My author copies already came today! Online version is not yet available, but hard copies can already be ordered and official publication date should be very soon!
August 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My author copies already came today! Online version is not yet available, but hard copies can already be ordered and official publication date should be very soon!
It's now been confirmed: my book The Colonial Way of War will finally come out in early August! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
www.cambridge.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's now been confirmed: my book The Colonial Way of War will finally come out in early August! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Newest in AI craze: Academia.edu now pushes AI-generated reviews of my own uploads on me: an AI-generated review of a book review (!)&a podcast in which a supposed Academia director has a “friendly chat” with undefined listeners (“folks”) abt an article of mine. Things are getting very weird indeed
July 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Newest in AI craze: Academia.edu now pushes AI-generated reviews of my own uploads on me: an AI-generated review of a book review (!)&a podcast in which a supposed Academia director has a “friendly chat” with undefined listeners (“folks”) abt an article of mine. Things are getting very weird indeed
Slightly different archive today than the ones I am used to!
July 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Slightly different archive today than the ones I am used to!
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📣 Open Call for Fellowships & Artist in Residence📣
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June 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📣 Open Call for Fellowships & Artist in Residence📣
🎓 for academic year 2026/27
⏰ Apply until Sunday, 27 July 2025
Fellowships: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
Artist in Residence: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
😊 We look forward to receiving your applications
🎓 for academic year 2026/27
⏰ Apply until Sunday, 27 July 2025
Fellowships: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
Artist in Residence: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
😊 We look forward to receiving your applications
Images related to my upcoming book #5: a major source corpus for my study on colonial violence are British, German and Dutch manuals of colonial warfare. While generally studies are limited to the famous manual of Charles Callwell (1896) I use a transimperial corpus covering the years 1820-1920...
June 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Images related to my upcoming book #5: a major source corpus for my study on colonial violence are British, German and Dutch manuals of colonial warfare. While generally studies are limited to the famous manual of Charles Callwell (1896) I use a transimperial corpus covering the years 1820-1920...
CFA: fellowships of 6-12 months at global dis:connect Munich 2026-7. Centre explores inter- and disconnectedness,
entanglements&disentanglements in historical&contemporary globalisation(s). For
Humanities&Soc.Sciences, esp. history&theatre studies&art history www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
entanglements&disentanglements in historical&contemporary globalisation(s). For
Humanities&Soc.Sciences, esp. history&theatre studies&art history www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
CFA: fellowships of 6-12 months at global dis:connect Munich 2026-7. Centre explores inter- and disconnectedness,
entanglements&disentanglements in historical&contemporary globalisation(s). For
Humanities&Soc.Sciences, esp. history&theatre studies&art history www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
entanglements&disentanglements in historical&contemporary globalisation(s). For
Humanities&Soc.Sciences, esp. history&theatre studies&art history www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
Somewhat flashed to see Kaye and Malleson's 'History of the Indian Mutiny' (first published in the 1870s) still in open stack at the LMU Munich History library
May 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Somewhat flashed to see Kaye and Malleson's 'History of the Indian Mutiny' (first published in the 1870s) still in open stack at the LMU Munich History library
The Centre for Transimperial History at Leipzig University has a lecture series this semester and it looks exciting! Here's the programme: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Transimperial History Lecture Series (hybrid)
The Transimperial History Lecture Series (THLS) is a hybrid lecture format organized on a regular basis by the Centre for Transimperial History at Leipzig University, in cooperation with international...
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April 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Centre for Transimperial History at Leipzig University has a lecture series this semester and it looks exciting! Here's the programme: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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I thought I would never see the day.
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Thank you @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @kassymbekova.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social
I thought I would never see the day.
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Thank you @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @kassymbekova.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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I thought I would never see the day.
www.routledge.com/Muslims-in-t...
Thank you @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @kassymbekova.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social
I thought I would never see the day.
www.routledge.com/Muslims-in-t...
Thank you @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @kassymbekova.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social
Exciting Global History PhD opportunity here at ETH Zürich in the project 'Engineering Empires from the Margins: Global Techno-Colonialism and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, c. 1860–1980' jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
PhD Position in Global History
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April 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Exciting Global History PhD opportunity here at ETH Zürich in the project 'Engineering Empires from the Margins: Global Techno-Colonialism and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, c. 1860–1980' jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
This scene from the Portuguese film Mosquito (2020; set in Mozambique 1917) I found quite typical for the colonial national exceptionalism that I have always sought to debunk in my work. A Portuguese soldier and his German POW come upon a...
March 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This scene from the Portuguese film Mosquito (2020; set in Mozambique 1917) I found quite typical for the colonial national exceptionalism that I have always sought to debunk in my work. A Portuguese soldier and his German POW come upon a...