On this day in 1495, Genoese merchant Michele da Cuneo recorded his impressions of the pineapple.

A new @thebritishacademy volume finds this ‘discovery’ and the subsequent commodification of the fruit to recapitulate the story of modern globalisation.

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'Segregation in cities remains a major concern in many parts of the world, including Britain, so understanding what people experienced in Manchester, one of the world’s first industrialised cities, is really important'

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Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social . New blog post by Christian Jones on shorturl.at/EKABu This way to the special issue itself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy to share my chapter, "A Liminal Commodity: Catch-Cropping, Chinese Capitalists, and the Colonial State in the Pineapple Industry of Singapore, 1900s–1930s", in this new edited volume on the global history of pineapples, published by @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social (1/3)

New in the Proceedings of the British Academy series, ‘The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification’ considers the pineapple as a story of modern globalisation: from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable. 👇

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It's publication day! 🎉🥳 Very soon I won't need to post about this anymore, but in the meantime, if you're interested in the colonial roots of modern tourism, or the role of leisure travel in producing knowledge about the world, check it out. Also as e-book on JSTOR: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31...

I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

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📣 New Special Issue edited by Avner Ofrath and Norman @aselmeyer.bsky.social making its way to #FirstView

🏘️ 'Introduction: Uneasy neighbours: proximity, sociability and difference in the colonial city, c. 1870–1940'

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This was just published, also by @urbanhistory.bsky.social, and it's an urban history of coasts and colonialism. I look at why a series of settlements struggled to survive in Borneo from the late eighteenth century.
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This article came out a few months ago. It's about how the socio-spatial boundaries of towns colonial Sabah (North Borneo) were drawn and transgressed. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Joining academic social media really late now—it feels like arriving at a party after everyone has left.