Dagmar Herzog, "The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century" (Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social#skystorians#historypress.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Question of Unworthy Life

The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today—and the courageous countervoices

Lúcio De Sousa's "The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves" is currently open access! Link: brill.com/display/titl...

I wrote a sonnet about always stopping first in Istanbul. (jacobbacharach.com/2024/09/26/p...)

Fascinating review of what looks like a very interesting book. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

My review of Marcelo Hoffman’s remarkable book Foucault in Brazil (upittpress.org/books/978082...journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... If you can't access the pdf, drop me an email or request on researchgate.

Nesting, and then nested. Max was a little upset by his grooming engagement this afternoon, so it's good to see him happier.

Hot off the press: Bruce Gordon‘s single volume, global history of the Bible is stunningly well researched and beautifully written. Cannot recommend highly enough. www.basicbooks.com/titles/bruce...

Max thinks we can all do better.

Paul Kosmin's *The Ancient Shore*, due out next month with Harvard University Press. Can't remember the last time I was so excited for a new book. 📘

The Ancient Shore — Harvard University Press

An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity.As we learn from Th...

I haven’t read the paper and can’t vouch for the methods, but this finding seems plausible and, if true, important. www.nber.org/papers/w32943