Tom Menger

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

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...

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!

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...

Congratulations!

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!

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.

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

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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

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)

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...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Have a good journey! Looking forward to meeting tomorrow

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

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

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

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

The Colonial Way of War Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

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!

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Thanks!

Thank you! I would be honoured!

Indeed...

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

Thanks, Huw!

Thank you!

Thanks, Kim!

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...

Dankjewel!

Thank you!

Thank you!

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

…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...

The Colonial Way of War Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

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