The Travel Book of the Year award committee meets on Wednesday. Can't wait to make a pick with the other judges! #TravelWriting #TravelLiterature #amreading

@earlymodernmaritimestudies

If you follow this group and know one other person who's working on maritime topics, please encourage them to follow us, also! Perhaps it will be a colleague who is interested in #EarlyModern #Navigation as the primary mode of transportation during periods of #ImperialExpansion and #Colonization, perhaps someone who works on #OceanStudies, on the #AtlanticWorld or on #TranspacificStudies, on early modern #TravelLiterature, on the #MiddlePassage and the many topics associated with the #SlaveryArchive, on #Pirates, on #MediterraneanStudies, in #CoastalStudies or on #PortCities. #CulturalStudies folks and #Histodons all welcome. Any work on early modern #BlueHumanities themes would be more than fitting. And while I'm at it, please share something about your own work on the group page! We're still getting to know one another. With thanks to the most avid supporters of the group. 😊

Some people like to believe that the Ottoman Empire was Europe’s ultimate “other.” Several European nations, not least the Serbs and the Hungarians, consider themselves those who held the Ottomans at bay. Some still consider the two sieges of Vienna as a pivotal moment in which the borders of Europe could suddenly contract. On the Way to the “(Un)Known”? explores not how the Ottomans “encroache... https://www.worldhistory.org/review/316/on-the-way-to-the-unknown-the-ottoman-empire-in-tr/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia #history #OttomanEmpire #MiddleEast #TravelLiterature

The 2023 Edward Stanfords Travel Book of the Year shortlist was announced today on the birdsite. I'm looking forward to reading the shortlisted books I haven't yet read and rereading the ones I have. #ESTWA2023 #TravelWriting #TravelLiterature

Hello, everyone! I hope you survived the server tempest, despite the loss of data, etc. Please, let’s reconnect! I write to let you know that I created the @earlymodernmaritimestudies group right before the server went down. Here’s the revised group description, for those whose work & interests fit. As you can see, we use “early modern” expansively! Have a look!
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This is an interdisciplinary group for those who study #Maritime topics in the early modern period and beyond (c.1500-1900s), from different perspectives. It is intended to be a point of encounter and a gathering space for specialists in fields such as #MaritimeHistory, #TravelLiterature, the #SlaveTrade, #CoastalStudies, #PortCities, #OceanStudies, #AtlanticStudies, #TranspacificStudies, etc., for the purpose of sharing ideas and supporting one another in our work.

#earlymodern #maritime #SlaveTrade #MiddlePassage #TravelLiterature, #histodons, #CoastalStudies, #PortCities, #OceanStudies