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Koji Yamamoto

@kyamamoto.bsky.social
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Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England ur0.jp/DliJo Research Unit for Business in Context ur0.jp/6w9gs Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Let me share this again. If interested, please drop me a line by the end of February.
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Thanks for reposting this yesterday!! Let me share this once again! #historysky #earlymodern
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Looking for a postdoc opportunity outside the UK/US? I'm happy to support up to two JSPS postdoc applicants for the coming round for two-year posts starting from Sep./Oct. 2026 onwards at UTokyo. The application to be submitted before the end of March. 1/n
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
#NACBS at Montreal has been wonderful. I presented here for the first time. Really useful feedback and stimulating panels across the entire program. The presidential address on J.S. Mill's 'family life' was a real treat. Looking forward to coming back to it again.
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)
The title pageThe first page of "Of Man" with extensive marginalia
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇 It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
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John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
東京カレッジGHCでのChie Ikeyaさんのブックトーク、とても面白かった。 InterAsian intimacies across race, religion, and colonialism (2024)についてで、本の一部をご本人が読み上げて解説を加えるというスタイルだった。小説などではよくある手法だけれど、研究書の文脈ではとても新鮮に感じた。
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Yesterday I participated at a workshop in a traditional teahouse in the Edo-era Hama-rikyū gardens with scholars from UTokyo & KyotoU. Brilliant range of talks - from 17thC naval contracting & confessional co-existence to a 20thC asylum in Peking & the 1999 introduction of the pill in Japan.
An interior view inside the teahouse overlooking a doorway, corridor, and window A box involving various elements on Japanese food
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today was my first day @utokyoofficial.bsky.social as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. I am grateful to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for the nomination & to colleagues at the JSPS & UTokyo for supporting my move to Japan, especially @kyamamoto.bsky.social. I am very excited to begin my new work!
A photo of Akamon, a historic red gate A photo of two figures walking through an archwayA very green tree from below
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Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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Ruthless - Yale University Press London
A revelatory new history of Britain’s industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result o...
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Some news: in 2026 I'll take over as Editor of Renaissance Studies. It's a journal that means a great deal to me and which occupies a uniquely important position in the interdisciplinary study of the early modern world. With our new Associate Editor, Dr Elizabeth Petcu, I can't wait to get started!
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New editor and associate editor, Renaissance Studies – Society for Renaissance Studies
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July! See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social
The call poster. Follow the link for details.
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Thanks Eva! I'm currently working on a few things, including London soap boilers and washerwomen and the constitutional crisis, and also on state-interventions on essential work like cooking, washing, heating and food preservation.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/05/2025
This is really cool:
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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
今の世の中が生きづらい原因の一つは、前の世代の人たちが十分に苦情を訴えなかったこと。
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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OMG!! The ESTC is back!!!! datb.cerl.org/estc/
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English Short Title Catalogue
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Hello colleagues! I'll be on sabbatical, and plan to be in London / Amsterdam between October 2025 and September 2026. Please let me know if there are places where I can share my ongoing research / advocacy work with you. I'd love to see if I can come and see my old friends and meet new ones.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/04/2025
Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Getting pretty tired of the “future historians will say X about this time.” I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
来週の月曜日4時50分から本郷で研究発表をします。テーマは「No more rigid monopoly? チャールズ一世親政期ウェストミンスター石鹸会社再訪、1633-1637」 ハイブリッド開催です。 www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/wor...
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Research | CIRJE
CIRJE Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
As of April 11, more than 840 international students and recent graduates at 160 universities and colleges around the US have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, per @insidehighered.com's count: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such.
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
リーディングクラブ、今年度一回目。
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John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Superb analysis from Liz on state capture/kleptocracy in the US and globally. We need to talk about the related concepts of "state capture" (@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social), "kleptocracy" (@tenaprelec.bsky.social) and "Poligarch" (@balint.bsky.social)! 1/2 www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...
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The Economic Consequences of State Capture
Oligarchs are warping markets and corrupting economies around the world.
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Sophie Waring @atinybitwaring.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude! All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume! Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
A book cover showing a man on a bizarrely styled float in the sea trying to take a measurement with a sextant. Another sailor sits waiting next to him in a small rowing boat. The title of the book is The Board of Longitude: science, innovation and empire, written by a group of authors.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It's an apt week to remember the South Sea Bubble of 1720. And for anyone thinking of teaching comparative financial crises next year, a reminder of the fab resources and datasets on the Bubble compiled by the Yale School of Management: som.yale.edu/centers/inte...
'Satire on the South Sea Bubble; a man imprisoned behind bars is surrounded by a medley of cards and ballads each of which carries engraved texts; at bottom right is an anamorphosis. For a full descrption see BMSat; later re-issue. 1720 Etching' British Museum 354195001
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Jun Akiba @jun-naibzade.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
論文 from:jun-naibzade.bsky.social と検索すればオスマン帝国史関連の最新論文情報が収集できます。 新刊 from:jun-naibzade.bsky.social だと新刊書の情報になります。fromを入れなくても「新刊 osmn」て洋書が、「新刊 osmn」でトルコ語の本が検索できます。 いずれも私の勝手な基準で選んでますが、できるだけ網羅的になるようにしています。
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hello colleagues! I want your recommendations: Do you know any great articles exploring the ethics and the politics of historical research (or any other context-driven disciplines) in the age of Chat GPT and other LLMs? I'd like to assign some reading to graduate students. Thanks for suggestions!
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Hello - good evening new followers! Let me repost this self-introduction in case it has escaped your attention. :)))
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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international
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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’ at University of London
At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’. Explore our d...
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2025
I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.
Letter from the Georgetown Energy Law Group withdrawing from a Skadden recruiting event, and explaining the reason for the cancellation: Skadden promising the Trump regime to end its DEI programming and give $100 million in free legal services to Trump-approved causes.
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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The forthcoming issue of the BJHS on science diplomacy in Asia looks good. Some CHSTM involvement.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Trump’s Justice Department is now arguing that the president can deport people to a prison in El Salvador without giving them a chance to object or prove their innocence… AND that the “mandate of the electorate” shields the operation from judicial scrutiny. Dictator shit. slate.com/news-and-pol...
On Monday, Donald Trump's Department of Justice made two arguments in two different courts that, taken together, amount to a legal claim of near-dictatorial power by Trump. First, it informed a federal appeals court that the president has authority to declare any noncitizens to be "alien enemies" and to deport them to foreign prison, where they will be forced to perform hard labor indefinitely-without notice, a hearing, or any meaningful opportunity to prove their innocence. Second, it refused to provide U.S. District Judge James Boasberg with details of these mass deportation operations, even in a closed courtroom, even under seal, insisting that Boasberg's authority must yield to the "mandate of the electorate." In other words, Trump's electoral victory grants him an absolute right to conduct these deportations, rendering them unreviewable by the judiciary.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The DARVO Presidency.
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Trump Downplays Signal Leak, Backing Waltz and Pointing Finger at Journalist
Democrats denounced the country’s top intelligence officials for “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” for discussing secret military plans in a group chat.
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are all vulnerable when anyone in our community / vicinity is vulnerable! PS I’m also concerned about potential ICE impersonators. If ICE won’t show ID or give names and uses unmarked vehicles, who is to say kidnappers won’t do the same.
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Astrid Christofori @astridchristofori.eurosky.social · 23/03/2025
Interessantes Forschungsthema aus dem Bereich der "Frauengeschichte" - es geht um Londoner Waschfrauen und die Qualität der Seife.
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Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hello! This is 'Material Identities, Social Bodies', a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project at the University of Birmingham. Led by @kharveyhistory.bsky.social and supported by @helenesfandiary.bsky.social, it explores embodiment & social identity in C18th British letters socialbodies.bham.ac.uk
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Social Bodies
Social Bodies research project website
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Clear and thoughtful, as always. @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on Trump's attacks on academic freedom and what to do.
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Academic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s how | Jan-Werner Müller
To begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. That’s not necessarily true
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Dr. RawheaD @rawhead.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
アメリカで開催される学会に出席するために渡米したフランス人科学者が、チャットのメッセージでトランプ政権の政策を批判してるのが入国管理官の目にとまり入国拒否された、という、もう完全にイっちゃってる出来事が既に起きているンですよ。
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/03/2025
Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.
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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Tokyo Tower right now.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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斉藤正美 @msmsaito.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
「女性トラブル」から「中居さんトラブル」に変わっていた。 「女性トラブル」はおかしいと言い続けた意味があったように思う。 実際、トラブル起こしたのは中居さんなわけだしね。
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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hello new followers!! I'm a historian interested in market and morality, improvement and state-formation, and more recently gender and feminism in England before its industrial take-off, c. 1550-1720. My first book was about what we might call the taming of capitalism before its triumph.
In this book I explored the darker side of England's culture of economic improvement between 1640 and 1720, and how people tried to contain its destructive tendencies. 

It is often suggested that England in this period grew strikingly confident of its prospect for unlimited growth. Indeed, merchants, inventors, and others promised to achieve immense profit and abundance. Such flowery promises were then, as now, prone to perversion, however. This volume is concerned with the taming of incipient capitalism — how a society in the past responded when promises of wealth creation went badly wrong. It reveals a history of numerous visible hands taming incipient capitalism, a story that Adam Smith and his admirers have long set aside.

The notion of 'projecting' played a key role in this process. Thriving theatre, literature, and popular culture in the age of Ben Jonson began elaborating on predominantly negative images of entrepreneurs or 'projectors' as people who pursued Crown's and their own profits at the public's expense. This study examines how the ensuing public distrust came to shape the negotiation in the subsequent decades over the nature of embryonic capitalism. The result is a set of fascinating discoveries. By scrutinising greedy 'projectors', the incipient public sphere helped reorient the practices and priorities of entrepreneurs and statesmen away from the most damaging of rent-seeking behaviours. Far from being a recent response to mainstream capitalism, ideas about socially responsible business have long shaped the pursuit of wealth, power, and profit. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph unravels the rich history of broken promises of public service and ensuing public suspicion — a story that throws fresh light on England's 'transition to capitalism', especially the emergence of consumer society and the financial revolution towards the end of the seventeenth century.
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Mari L (she/her) @mlatibash.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Response from student leaders at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social: “While we did not expect to be fighting for our basic First Amendment rights, we are prepared to do so—we will not waver, cower, nor hesitate.”
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