Next is a review of Choon Hwee Koh's "The Sublime Post" (2024), about the Ottoman postal system and its maintenance through the ages, serving the Empire's communication needs. newdiplomatichistory.org/the-sublime-...

Congratulations to @superoldgranny.bsky.social's whose book The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service just won the @mesa1966.bsky.social's Albert Hourani Book Award #Mesa2025

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

New on FirstView: Serkan Yolaçan's "A Seven-Headed Public: #Empire and #Satire in Revolutionary #Caucasus." #History #Anthropology doi.org/10.1017/S001...

論文　オスマン帝国の国家形成：集権化／分権化の隘路を超えて：増殖する仲介者 Koh, Choon Hwee. “The Quandary of Proliferating Intermediaries: Ottoman State Formation Beyond the De/Centralization Impasse.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2025, 1–18. otmn doi.org/10.1017/S002....

Thank you so much Jeff!!! I'm just checking into my BlueSky account right now, appreciate it!!! <3 <3 <3

This was pretty obvious to non-experts before the invasion even began. Now 20,000 people are dead and Israel continues to lack a plausible strategy. It’s a moral and political disaster.

Excited to announce that you can now preorder my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina scheduled for December 5 release with a @stanfordpress.bsky.social discount code AMZI-ERDOGDULAR20 sup.org/books/title/... #menasky #what's history 🗃️

Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow in digital history. Please join our growing and vibrant team at HKU Big Data Studies Lab. jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/52...

We've already received some excellent applications. This will be a great cohort, and you could be one of them! Applications open until October 1st, more info at emdigit.org/2023/call-fo... #earlymodern 🗃️