This & other projects make a case for why, e.g., the groundbreaking work of Chinese scholars like Deng Xiaonan & many others should be included in #medieval history-I guess you missed the footnotes where their work is cited at length? Translations of their work also in the makinghttps://twitter.com/dorothyk98/status/1070692266426146816 …
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Replying to @hild_de
Did you read the introduction? What is the point of footnotes when literally the introduction is saying that the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism were just "mass migrations" and look, it brought diversity and so that's fine?!?!
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Replying to @dorothyk98
Read on, I don’t think this is the argument at all.
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Replying to @hild_de
#MedievalTwitter Here is what I see and I have read: "The Global Middle Ages offered more options than before, and experimentation abounded. But when does this change? in 1492 a Genoese seafarer re-established the spindliest of connections between Eurasia and the Americas, 1/21 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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#MedievalTwitter "starting an experiment that from a European perspective took rather well, even if many around the world, especially Native Americans and African Americans, would have seen it, and continue to see it, differently." 2/21 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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#MedievalTwitter further in the reading "Looking further ahead, the mobility that had enabled options and diversity eventually became mass migrations, including the Atlantic slave trade and settler colonialism. Although some willingly embraced the options comprising modernity,1/21 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
"by the nineteenth century for the most part European imperialism imposed options originating in one small part of the world on the astonishing variety of the rest, who were no longer experimenters in their own rights but experimented upon." 2/2
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