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
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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📣
🎓 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
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.
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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...
www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue... Munich: a commission of experts recommends the change of 39 street names. As far as I could ascertain, 7 of these concern German colonial history, and one concerns involvement in the Transatlantic trade in enslaved people. For Robert Koch, implicated in...
Umbenennung von Straßen in München: Experten-Kommission sieht 39 kritische Fälle
Eine Experten-Kommission empfiehlt, 39 Straßen in München umzubenennen. Wer sich künftig auf eine neue Adresse einstellen muss.
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March 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue... Munich: a commission of experts recommends the change of 39 street names. As far as I could ascertain, 7 of these concern German colonial history, and one concerns involvement in the Transatlantic trade in enslaved people. For Robert Koch, implicated in...
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Uni Freiburg schreibt eine Provenienzforschungsstelle für die Alexander-Ecker-Sammlung aus. Bitte weiterleiten, das ist wichtig.
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March 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Uni Freiburg schreibt eine Provenienzforschungsstelle für die Alexander-Ecker-Sammlung aus. Bitte weiterleiten, das ist wichtig.
uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
Images related to my forthcoming book #4: one of the most shocking instances of colonial violence I found while researching my dissertation was the dynamiting of Shona cave refuges in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) 1896-1897. The case not only further emphasised that British colonial violence was... (1)
March 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Images related to my forthcoming book #4: one of the most shocking instances of colonial violence I found while researching my dissertation was the dynamiting of Shona cave refuges in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) 1896-1897. The case not only further emphasised that British colonial violence was... (1)
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Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social
Traces of colonial history around Munich: I visited the Museum of the St. Ottilien Mission last week. What struck me most was this. I knew the German colonial authorities had never banned slavery after the establishment of their East African colony. Seeing an official 1895 German document... (1/2)
March 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Traces of colonial history around Munich: I visited the Museum of the St. Ottilien Mission last week. What struck me most was this. I knew the German colonial authorities had never banned slavery after the establishment of their East African colony. Seeing an official 1895 German document... (1/2)
Last weekend I finally managed to see the whole 'Der Kolonialismus in den Dingen' exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich, which delves into the colonial provenance of many of their objects. It is an interesting and critical exhibition, even if personally I slightly felt the lack of a...
February 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Last weekend I finally managed to see the whole 'Der Kolonialismus in den Dingen' exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich, which delves into the colonial provenance of many of their objects. It is an interesting and critical exhibition, even if personally I slightly felt the lack of a...
Congratulations @mtoiv.bsky.social! Fabulous news!
Some personal news! I'm very, very grateful to the Finnish Cultural Foundation (@skr.fi) for awarding a two-year research grant to my new project 'Trees and the travels of knowledge: making modern (trans)imperial forestry from the margins, 1917–1939'. This is now definitely happening!
The Finnish Cultural Foundation awards €29 million to science, research and the arts – one million euro in funding to research on child and adolescent mental health - Finnish Cultural Foundation
The Finnish Cultural Foundation awarded a total of 831 grants. In October 2024, a record number of people working in science, research, art and culture applied for these grants.
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February 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Congratulations @mtoiv.bsky.social! Fabulous news!