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Janne Lahti

@jannelahti.bsky.social
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PhD, Historian at Linnaeus University and University of Helsinki. Global, settler colonialism, American West, Nordic colonialism, German colonialism, borderlands

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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Parasta juuri nyt (30.3.2026): Christine Webb, Janne Lahti & Johanna Skurnik, Berliinin taidenäyttelyt, iltamusiikki - Kulttuuritoimitus
Jari Paavonheimo on käynyt Berliinin taidemuseoissa, lentänyt musiikillisella taikamatolla ja lukenut ajatuksia ravisuttavia tietokirjoja.
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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This week! Nordic Colonialism in 2026: The Truth Commissions and their Outcomes with Gunlög Fur, Professor of History at Linnaeus University and founder of Concurrences. 12 March, 13:15-17:00 Dacke (Fe3016) & zoom (register at link below) #academicsky lnu.se/.../2026/lnu...
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New era of US expansion
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Eline Ceulemans @elineceulemans.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The issue includes contributions by ➡️ Amandine Lauro @ulbruxelles.bsky.social ➡️ @veropouillard.bsky.social University of Oslo ➡️ Gijs Dreijer @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social ➡️ Kevin Goergen @uni.lu ➡️ @jannelahti.bsky.social Linnaeus University ✅🔓 Available open access! bmgn-lchr.nl/issue/view/1...
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Vol. 140 No. 4 (2025): Transimperial Opportunities? Small State Colonisation of Congo (1876-1940) | BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence. Details below. Please circulate widely!
CALL FOR PAPERS: Patrick Wolfe’s Settler Colonial Theory, 20 Years On
This special issue of Settler Colonial Studies aims to collaboratively examine the residual
impacts of Patrick Wolfe’s influential essay, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native."

• What did this essay do to shift or situate the conversation of postcolonial studies
towards settler colonialism?
• What chord did it strike that made it so widely taken up? And how have the
essay’s key concepts travelled globally?
• How do the essay’s arguments hold up when considered in settler colonial
contexts not addressed in Wolfe’s essay.

Our aim is to curate a special issue by inviting a mix of scholars from across the globe,
Indigenous and non-Indigenous, established and newer voices, to comment on the essay in
2026 as a way to examine the current state of the field. We seek research article contributions
of 5,000 words that will undergo double-blind peer-review and also encourage reflective
essays and creative responses to “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.”
We will hold an online symposium in June 2026, where a working version of accepted essays
will be shared with scholars from across the globe. Our target deadlines are as follows:
• 350 word abstracts by March 15, 2026;
• Conference version of the paper for the online symposium in June 2026;
• Submitted draft for peer review, October 2026;
• Revised and final draft for publication, Jan 2027;
• Publication: May 2027.
Please send abstracts of 350 words with a 1 page CV to: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower,
rebeccawh@vt.edu or raweav1@yahoo.com. Please make sure the subject line indicates the
special issue. Abstracts will be acknowledged with an email. If you do not receive a response
within 2 weeks, please email Rebecca (in case your original email was unintentionally filtered
out by her email program).
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Kolonialismin historiasta ajatuksia www.hs.fi/taide/art-20...
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10 kysymystä | ”Petsamo oli Suomen siirtomaa” – Nämä asiat jokaisen pitäisi ymmärtää kolonialismista
Tutkijat tekivät yleistajuisen tietokirjan kolonialismin historiasta ja vaikutuksista. Ovatko suomalaiset siis kolonialisteja, Janne Lahti ja Johanna Skurnik?
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Tervetuloa Rosebud Sivulliseen tiistaina 21.10 klo 17.00 kirjamme Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma julkaisutilaisuuteen. historianswithoutborders.fi/tapahtumat/k...
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Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma -kirjan julkaisutilaisuus
Tervetuloa Janne Lahden ja Johanna Skurnikin Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma -teoksen julkaisutilaisuuteen tiistaina 21.10.2025 klo 17.00–18.30 kirjakauppa Rosebud Sivulliseen!
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Juttelemassa uudesta kirjastani Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma. Kuuntele Yle Areenassa: areena.yle.fi/1-75853435
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Kolonialismin kirous | Kalle Haatanen
Kolonialismi on merkittävä osa maailmanhistoriaa. Voisi erehtyä luulemaan, että se oli vain historiallinen vaihe, jolloin Eurooppa sorti muuta maailmaa. Kyse on kuitenkin paljon syvemmästä asiasta, j...
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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The Namibian: „Germany rejects reparation payments to former colonies.“ @he-mel.bsky.social h/t @heikebecker.bsky.social www.namibian.com.na/germany-reje...
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Germany rejects reparation payments to former colonies
The German government says it will not make any reparation payments to Germany's former colonies, since there was no international criminal law at the time of […]
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My new open access article discussing settler memory and monuments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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‘To the Homeland’: Settler Monument, Memory and the Finnish Colony of Petsamo on the Finnish–Russian Borderlands - Janne Lahti, 2025
This article examines a set of entanglements between settler memory and a monument in a nation that does not acknowledge that it ever had a colonial history. It...
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I appreciate @kevinmkruse.bsky.social's point, but I would argue that there is a logic to waving the Mexican flag, especially in the context of raids on immigrant Latino communities in LA. A short thread. 1/
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Elokuussa....
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Germany still hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks further burying that history – sidestepping the voices of victims’ descendants. I met some of them in Namibia. This is my report (Support my work on Substack). open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
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From Genocide to Greenwashing: Germany’s Legacy in Namibia
Germany hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Descendants of the victims want a seat at the table. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks burying the past.
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies is here! Check out what is going on. Edited by @karl-jacoby.bsky.social and Magdalena Naum. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rset20/c...
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Settler Colonial Studies
New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies. Volume 15, Issue 2 of Settler Colonial Studies
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The Finnish American Studies Association @fasafinland.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Jos olet väitöskirjatutkija, joka on menossa Yhdysvaltain tutkimukseen liittyvään konferenssiin Euroopassa tai Yhdysvalloissa, voit nyt hakea FASA:n ja Suomi-Amerikka-yhdistysten liiton konferenssiapurahaa www.samsuomi.fi/konferenssia...
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Konferenssiapuraha – kannustus Yhdysvaltojen tutkimukseen | Suomi-Amerikka Yhdistysten Liitto | SAM
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Woohoo, our Itinerario special issue 'Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires' is now out in its proper, physical form! 🥳 Check out the introduction by myself and Andreas Greiner here: doi.org/10.1017/S016... And the entire table of contents here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cover of the latest issue of Itinerario: Journal of Global and Imperial Interactions. The cover image is an 1896 photo of a helpless-looking white male tourist being pushed and pulled up the side of a pyramid by a group of Egyptian guides/porters. 'Ascension de la grande pyramide par un touriste', by Félix Bonfils, 1896. Rijksmuseum.
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The Finnish American Studies Association @fasafinland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Members of FASA register at a lower rate! Join FASA here: www.fasa.fi/membership/j...
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Join FASA // Renew Your Membership
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NAAS Turku 2025 @naas2025.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
As a member of any of the Nordic Associations for American Studies (including @fasafinland.bsky.social), European Association for American Studies, or American Studies Association, you can register at the members rate!
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NAAS Turku 2025 @naas2025.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Registration is open! As a member of any of the Nordic Associations for American Studies (including @fasafinland.bsky.social ), European Association for American Studies, or American Studies Association, you can register at the members rate! www.fasa.fi/membership/j... #NAASpirations
FASA The Finnish American Studies Association 
JOIN FASA: https://www.fasa.fi/membership/join-fasa-renew-your-membership/
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows
‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Looking for associate editor(s) for Settler Colonial Studies👍👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Associate Editor/s needed for Settler Colonial Studies
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Lotta Leiwo @lottaleiwo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
”New Directions in Finnish North American Research” Webinar, Thursday, January 23 at 18.00 Finnish time (GMT+2) /10:00am CST. @infomigration.bsky.social @fasafinland.bsky.social @ihrc-umn.bsky.social Info and registration: siirtolaisuusinstituutti.fi/events/new-d...
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“New Directions in Finnish North American Research” Webinar, Thursday, January 23 at 18.00 Finnish time (GMT+2) /10:00am CST - Siirtolaisuusinstituutti
This webinar showcases four innovative PhD dissertation projects on Finnish North American history and heritage. The speakers will present new approaches from the perspectives of history, folklore stu...
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Send your proposals to our Summer School: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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REMINDER: CfP International Summer School Towards Inclusive Global Histories  | H-Net
Archives and Voices have become much-debated aspects of recent research in global history. Under the overall theme of “Towards Inclusive Global Histories” the summer school aims to further discussion,...
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Join our team! Settler Colonial Studies is looking for new associate editors. Call here👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Associate Editor/s needed for Settler Colonial Studies
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Reetta Humalajoki @reettaeh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This summer the biannual Nordic Assocation for American Studies conference is coming to Turku! You can now follow us here @naas2025.bsky.social for update.
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The Finnish American Studies Association @fasafinland.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
It is time to renew your membership for 2025. On how to renew your membership or join FASA, check our website: fasa.fi/membership/j...
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Join FASA // Renew Your Membership
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Residential school denialists don’t want you to watch Sugarcane - a new documentary about the St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School that’s getting Oscar buzz and is now streaming on Disney+ and Hula. That’s good enough reason to check it out and learn about the ongoing legacy of the IRS system.
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thanks to all the new followers! By way of introduction here are 3 more or less recent, open-access articles of mine that might give you a sense of my current research interests. 1) German colonial history and the varied responses of colonised peoples to it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa
While German Samoa has appeared to some historians as a colony that demonstrates the benevolence of liberal colonial government, this article argues that Germany’s administration of Samoa should no...
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Bloomsbury wants me to put this pic in my email signature, which isn't going to happen, but I'll post it here as a compromise. Check out our book, maybe? It's free, you know. Hardback coming out in January. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
A marketing banner for the book 'Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950', edited by myself and Bernhard C. Schär.
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Strong text on Native American boarding schools in the US by Vincent Veerbeek. www.sammagazine.fi/puheenvuorot...
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FASA: Recognition of Boarding School History - A First Step to Reconciliation?
Af­ter fif­ty ye­ars of si­len­ce, the Uni­ted Sta­tes go­vern­ment has be­gun to ad­d­ress its long his­to­ry of vi­o­len­ce against Na­ti­ve Ame­ri­can child­ren in bo­ar­ding schools. Two ma­jor re...
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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Learn more about the research clusters within #Concurrences, like the cluster for Ecology, Culture & Coloniality - Projects include South African resource & energy cultures; speculative fiction; ecotopian postcolonial comics; the politics of border narratives & more - lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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New Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo)
The Aesthetics of Empire cluster within LNUC Concurrences has recently reformed as the new cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo). The decision was made by members during a workshop held ...
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Check out the Latest Articles section in Settler Colonial Studies! A diverse and robust field, I would say. But I may be partial as editor here... www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
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Latest articles from Settler Colonial Studies
Browse the latest articles and research from Settler Colonial Studies
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Anu Lahtinen @anulah.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Kuulumisia Historian oppiaineesta, vietimme eilen Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -seminaaria luentoineen ja juhlallisuuksineen. blogs.helsinki.fi/historia/202...
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Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -luento, professori Laura Kolben muotokuva ja gradupalkinnot | Historia
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
How's this for serendipitous archival discovery: The personal papers of Belgium's notorious King Leopold - believed to have been destroyed- were found hidden in a walled-in cellar in a chateau scheduled for demolition in 1983: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Surveying the Archives of the Congo Free State - The Congo Free State: What Could the Archives Tell Us? New Light and Research Perspective Edited by Patricia Van Schuylenbergh and Mathilde Leduc-Grima...
Surveying the Archives of the Congo Free State - The Congo Free State: What Could the Archives Tell Us? New Light and Research Perspective Edited by Patricia Van Schuylenbergh and Mathilde Leduc-Grima...
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Niladri Chatterjee @niladri4u.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The #CFP for our #SummerSchool in #globalhistory is out! In association with @lnuccon.bsky.social and European Network in Universal and Global History. Join us in #Växjö in September 2025! Link 👇🏼 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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CfA: International Summer School Towards Inclusive Global Histories | H-Net
Organized by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) in collaboration with Global Diplomacy Network (GDN), Linnaeus University Center fo
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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
We are looking for relatively short (1-2,000 words) opinion pieces on issues pertaining to imperial history, historiography, colonialism or the legacies of empire. Please do not hesitate to get in touch (jonas.f.gjerso@uis.no)!
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Glad to be part of this👍👇
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Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃‍♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Rebuilding my Writing Westward Podcast community here as the other place devolves. There are 68 past episodes to catch up on, share, rate, and review. Get to it!
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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
That time of the year when I advertise for my #University - or rather the #Master's programme in #Colonial and #Postcolonial Studies that I'm coordinating: lnu.se/en/programme... Please do forward to students and professionals! (also #distance alternative) /1
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Master's in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Work with past and present expressions. Learn about how colonial exercises of power influence today’s economic, social, cultural, and political relations.
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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! We are the Linnaeus Uni 🇸🇪 Centre for #Concurrences in Colonial & Postcolonial Studies. We analyze the consequences of colonialism & other forms of domination, particularly on those dispossessed, exploited & marginalized due to imperial expansion lnu.se/en/research/... #Academicsky
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Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
The Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is a leading centre for Colonial and Postcolonial studies in Europe and a major Swedish and international research ...
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Felicity Jensz @fjensz.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7... It's out now... Get your copy now, fresh off the press!
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Koloniale Spuren in Münster und im Münsterland
Wo ist der Kolonialismus bis heute sichtbar? Historische Spuren in der westfälischen Provinzhauptstadt Münster und ihrer ländlichen Umgebung.
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Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My first post here is my latest book review that just came out on H-Net, H-TGS networks.h-net.org/group/review...
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Lahti on Bryce, 'The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario' | H-Net
Bryce, Benjamin. The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario. McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2...
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