iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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...

brill.com

Book Reviews

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

000

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...

networks.h-net.org

000

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...

networks.h-net.org

022

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...

networks.h-net.org

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...

01819

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"...

010

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!

010

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!

052

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...

sportschau.de

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 ...

010

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!

020

Reposted by Tom Menger

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.

01624

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

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

072

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!

040

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....

tandfonline.com

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)

030

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!

010

Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ah! Hadn't thought of that...

000

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!

011

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

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

101

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...

newbooksnetwork.com

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

040

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!

010

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...

240

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!

070

Reposted by Tom Menger

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.

0113

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

120

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)

0113

Reposted by Tom Menger

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...

0149

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

Have a good journey! Looking forward to meeting tomorrow

010

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

No, day train - started 6 AM today in Munich and am scheduled to arrive this evening - but you took the night train, then?

100

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

140

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

000

Reposted by Tom Menger

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...

cambridge.org

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

1198

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

Thank you! I would be honoured!

010

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

That's what the cover ended up being after the rejection of seven previous proposals… 😅

100

Reposted by Tom Menger

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...

2258

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

… finally reveals how specific practices of violence, such as colonial genocide or scorched earth, can be best understood from a transimperial perspective.

080

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

…not only traces shared practices of colonial violence but equally conceptualises a shared body of thought behind this violence. In a 2nd step, it explores how transimperial connectivity, in publications and in human mobility, contributed to bringing this shared thought&practice into being. It...

180