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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's finally been confirmed: for the winter semester 2026-27, I will be a guest professor at the University of Graz!

Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Grateful to note a 2nd review of my book &to read its judgement that the book 'represents a major advance in the study of imperial violence, bridging military history and colonial history in productive ways and demonstrating the analytical power of transimperial comparison' brill.com/view/journal...

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Book Reviews

"Book Reviews" published on 07 May 2026 by Brill.

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last chance to submit an abstract for our conference: "Revisiting Geopolitics and Empire: A Transimperial Approach": networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There is still a week to submit a proposal for our conference 'Revisiting Geopolitics and Empire: A Transimperial Approach'! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

CFP for a great conference of the Centre for Transimperial History, taking place in Leipzig next year 19-21 May. Organised by Nadin Heé, Daniel Hedinger & me. Subject: Geopolitics and Empire, revisited from transimperial perspective. Please send in your abstracts! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Revisiting Geopolitics and Empire: A Transimperial Approach | H-Net

Geopolitics have returned to our present—and it is only a matter of time before they will also return to the study of our past. The conference, organized by the Centre for Transimperial History at Lei...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Maršrutas" - if I am not completely mistaken, the Lithuanian word for direction/itinerary seems to derive directly from the German military word "Marschroute"...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Some while ago already but still honoured to finally share that I was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society back in May!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The generous review of my book by Benjamin Harris has now also been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very strange moment in this summary of the England vs Congo DR World Cup game (9:26). The German commentator really says 'The empire wants to strike back' (Das Empire will zurückschlagen) - there is so much a colonial historian could say about this... www.sportschau.de/fussball/fif...

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England, USA und Co.: Die Highlights vom 21. WM-Tag

England trifft im Sechzehntelfinale auf DR Kongo, Belgien spielt gegen den Senegal und die USA kämpft gegen Bosnien-Herzegowina um den Einzug ins Achtelfinale. Die Highlights der WM-Nacht vom 1. Juli ...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It was a great pleasure talking about my book yesterday with the @transimperial.bsky.social and @recentglobe.bsky.social ! Hope to be back soon!

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Centre for Transimperial History, Leipzig University @transimperial.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are restarting our series on transimperial history. Join us tomorrow for Tom Menger's book talk.

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Next week I'll be talking about my book at @recentglobe.bsky.social in Leipzig!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's already more than a week since the last day of my 'Violence in East and West' fellowship at the University of Konstanz, but still wanted to say it's been a wonderful (and sunny!) time and send a special thanks to Pavel Kolář and Maria Buko at the department and Kamil Ruszała as my co-fellow!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This appears to be 1st review of my book! And, fortunately, quite a positive one ;) ‘An ambitious and thought-provoking study that offers a significant contribution to imperial and military history’ writes B. Harris in the Journal of Imperial&Commonwealth History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German, and Dutch Empires c.1890-1914

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I still wanted to share that this month I will be in beautiful Konstanz as a Visiting Research Fellow in the 'Violence in East and West' fellowship programme!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It was a pleasure being in Zürich yesterday to present at the Joint ETHZ-UZH Colloquium in Global and extra-European History. Many thanks to Harald Fischer-Tiné for the invitation and to Sarujan Theivendran for the organisation!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Amazing to see this is now coming out! Congrats, @mark-condos.bsky.social

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I had the honour to speak to the New Books Network about my book The Colonial Way of War. Very happy to see the podcast has now appeared! And a great thanks to Kelly McFall for kindly inviting and hosting me. newbooksnetwork.com/the-colonial...

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Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is a bit late, but still wanted to say I really enjoyed speaking about my book to Kelly McFall of the New Books Network last Wednesday! The podcast episode should be up soon!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Passing some quiet days over Christmas I wasn't prepared to see popping up on the historic guest list of a Regensburg café the name of Belgian King Leopold II, the man who plundered the Congo & whose wars and system of forced labour killed & mutilated millions of its inhabitants between 1885-1908...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Book launch! I look forward to presenting my book The Colonial Way of War on 9 December (11:30) at my old workplace in Munich. If you're around and would like to come, please send me a short message as space is limited!

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Susanne Quitmann @susannequitmann.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Save the Date: 9 December 2025 - Launch event of @tommenger.bsky.social's The Colonial Way of War (published with CUP) at @globaldiscnct.bsky.social www.globaldisconnect.org/11/24/9-dece...

Cover of Tom Menger, The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c.1890-1914, Cambridge University Press.

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I too really enjoyed @sochistorywar.bsky.social 's annual conference in Potsdam. Good to see many friends and acquaintances and get to know some new ones! And it was a pleasure to present my new research project in our panel on 'Imperial boomerangs' convened by Sibylle Scheipers

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I was struck today by the fact that this rather new Edeka supermarket ostentatiously displays the German supermarket chain’s origins as a cooperative of Kolonialwarenhändler, i.e. grocers selling predominantly colonial-origin goods. (at Forum Schwanthalerhöhe, Munich, opened 2019)

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Centre for Transimperial History, Leipzig University @transimperial.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Today on a long train journey to Växjö, Sweden, for the upcoming ENIUGH Conference!

View from train window on rails and other trains against a rising sun

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It seems the day my book came out my LMU e-mail went down, so that all e-mails sent to me now mysteriously bounce back. If you contacted me in the last days, please DM me here

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Tom Menger's new book is out now - with @kimatiwagner.bsky.social blurb "In The Colonial Way of War, Menger presents a masterclass in transimperial history", congrats @tommenger.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I have been looking forward to @tommenger.bsky.social's book on colonial warfare for some time now, and it's amazing to see that it's finally out. A must for anyone who's interested in the study of violence in a transimperial comparative framework...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

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The Colonial Way of War

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

My author copies already came today! Online version is not yet available, but hard copies can already be ordered and official publication date should be very soon!

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It's now been confirmed: my book The Colonial Way of War will finally come out in early August! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Newest in AI craze: Academia.edu now pushes AI-generated reviews of my own uploads on me: an AI-generated review of a book review (!)&a podcast in which a supposed Academia director has a “friendly chat” with undefined listeners (“folks”) abt an article of mine. Things are getting very weird indeed

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Slightly different archive today than the ones I am used to!

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global dis:connect @globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

📣 Open Call for Fellowships & Artist in Residence📣 🎓 for academic year 2026/27 ⏰ Apply until Sunday, 27 July 2025 Fellowships: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u... Artist in Residence: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u... 😊 We look forward to receiving your applications

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Images related to my upcoming book #5: a major source corpus for my study on colonial violence are British, German and Dutch manuals of colonial warfare. While generally studies are limited to the famous manual of Charles Callwell (1896) I use a transimperial corpus covering the years 1820-1920...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

CFA: fellowships of 6-12 months at global dis:connect Munich 2026-7. Centre explores inter- and disconnectedness, entanglements&disentanglements in historical&contemporary globalisation(s). For Humanities&Soc.Sciences, esp. history&theatre studies&art history www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Somewhat flashed to see Kaye and Malleson's 'History of the Indian Mutiny' (first published in the 1870s) still in open stack at the LMU Munich History library

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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

👀 I thought I would never see the day. www.routledge.com/Muslims-in-t... Thank you @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @kassymbekova.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social

Screenshot from the acknowledgements in my book.

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Exciting Global History PhD opportunity here at ETH Zürich in the project 'Engineering Empires from the Margins: Global Techno-Colonialism and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, c. 1860–1980' jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

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PhD Position in Global History

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This scene from the Portuguese film Mosquito (2020; set in Mozambique 1917) I found quite typical for the colonial national exceptionalism that I have always sought to debunk in my work. A Portuguese soldier and his German POW come upon a...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue... Munich: a commission of experts recommends the change of 39 street names. As far as I could ascertain, 7 of these concern German colonial history, and one concerns involvement in the Transatlantic trade in enslaved people. For Robert Koch, implicated in...

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Umbenennung von Straßen in München: Experten-Kommission sieht 39 kritische Fälle

Eine Experten-Kommission empfiehlt, 39 Straßen in München umzubenennen. Wer sich künftig auf eine neue Adresse einstellen muss.

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Andreas Mehler @mehler.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Uni Freiburg schreibt eine Provenienzforschungsstelle für die Alexander-Ecker-Sammlung aus. Bitte weiterleiten, das ist wichtig. uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Images related to my forthcoming book #4: one of the most shocking instances of colonial violence I found while researching my dissertation was the dynamiting of Shona cave refuges in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) 1896-1897. The case not only further emphasised that British colonial violence was... (1)

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Traces of colonial history around Munich: I visited the Museum of the St. Ottilien Mission last week. What struck me most was this. I knew the German colonial authorities had never banned slavery after the establishment of their East African colony. Seeing an official 1895 German document... (1/2)

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