Alex Levine
PhD student at UCLA studying 20th-century European internationalisms
history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine/
- Reposted by Alex LevineAre you an emerging scholar seeking to share your research with a wider audience? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" that highlights research by advanced grad students + early career on European history 1914-present. Submit your work! tinyurl.com/2s45996j
- Reposted by Alex LevineIt is out, everyone! 🎉 My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the @ghiwashington.bsky.social! The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚 @thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alex LevineJoin us online on February 12 for the event "German Americans and the Founding of the United States," a lecture by Dr. Emily Sneff presented in partnership with the Max Kade Institute (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and the German Society of Pennsylvania uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Alex LevineHappy publication day to @claudiakreklau.bsky.social, whose book “The Making of Modern Eating” is now published in our Studies in German History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social book series! Available in open access and other formats here: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Krekla...
- Reposted by Alex LevineWe at @conteurohistory.bsky.social have just published our latest editorial digest for Jul-Dec 2025, including details of new special issues + our favourite articles. Give it a read! www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
- Reposted by Alex LevineThe research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum
- Reposted by Alex LevineFascist regionalism is part of old Nazi policy in the Nordic/Scandinavian region. Quisling and other Nazi collaborators worked to increase cooperation in the region, but failed due to internal dissent.
- Reposted by Alex Levine📚 Out with OUP this summer: "Experts in a Turbulent World" 📚 An edited volume that connects historical and contemporary perspectives on the role of experts in international organisations. 1/3 👇 #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Sapporo Japan 🇯🇵 was scheduled to host the 1940 Winter Olympics (which never happened). The city hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, the first time the event was held in Asia #olympics #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - Reposted by Alex Levine🌐 How do Rapid Response Mechanisms at the UN affect the making & use of expertise? My new article @risjnl.bsky.social, part of a special issue by Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, @uribejuanita.bsky.social & Leandro Montes Ruiz on sources of expert authority beyond objectivity 👇 tinyurl.com/yzn422nn
- Reposted by Alex LevineSt. Moritz 🇨🇭 hosted the first postwar Winter Olympics in 1948. Germany & Japan weren’t invited because they were both still occupied & considered not sovereign - but Austria (also divided & occupied) competed #olympics #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Alex LevineThis week we published 'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment' bit.ly/3LKB8NF - new in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. With contributions from Gary Gerstle, @quinnslobodian.com, @priyalalista.bsky.social lista.bsky.social, and @tsasson.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
- Reposted by Alex LevineA neat little nugget of medieval coal history as we come to the end of a year where the UK has just finished it first 15 months freed from coal power, but the US has slid backward on so many energy fronts. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #Speculations #MedievalSky
- Reposted by Alex LevineOur choice for Book of the Year is The Hungry City: A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona, by Marie A. Kelleher www.medievalists.net/2025/12/medi... #BookoftheYear #Books #medieval
- Reposted by Alex LevineWe’re very excited about this at @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social HQ! This is OPEN TO ALL, regardless of your background, so no imposter syndrome, and please SHARE THE NEWS. If you have a story to tell, get in touch! You can interpret the theme any way you choose!
- Reposted by Alex LevineWe are seeking to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 2026. Applications are due on January 11; for more details visit: www.ghi-dc.org/news-...
- Reposted by Alex Levine📘 The official edition of the “Preparatory Work” of the Convention is now available in digital format. ➡️ This fully searchable digital PDF has been made possible thanks to @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, which digitised all eight volumes free of charge. www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/...
- Reposted by Alex LevineExcellent new article on labour history & (pre) colonial Samoa. "The Bankruptcy of the ‘South Sea Kings’: Plantation Business, Labour Recruitment and German Politics in the Western Pacific, 1870s and 1880s" www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...
- Reposted by Alex LevineWhy do bourgeois elites try to transform cities? What happens when their fantasies fail to materialize? Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today! bookshop.org/p/books/citi...
- Reposted by Alex LevineAndrew Fialka et Aaron Sheehan-Dean (eds.) - Rebels and Regimes The Nature of Violent Resistance in the Nineteenth Century À paraître en mai aux LSU Press
- Reposted by Alex LevineLook what I found in my mailbox today! 🤗 🤩 ✨It’s finally real ✨
- I can finally share the cover of my forthcoming monograph, “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir” A few more weeks and this thing becomes real: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
- Reposted by Alex LevineMy forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Reposted by Alex LevinePage proofs! #skystorians @lsupress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alex LevinePeter Ekman, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge and Doubt in America’s Postwar Urbanism - @cornellupress.bsky.social, November 2024 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
- Reposted by Alex LevineFrom the current issue: “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument” by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
- Reposted by Alex LevineCheck out our recent Research Article titled 'Hospital ships of the Royal Navy in World War One: From pre-war planning to the aftermath of Jutland' by Edward J. Wawrzynczak and Jane V.S. Wickenden doi.org/10.1177/0843... #maritimehistory #firstworldwarhistory
- Reposted by Alex LevineThis is a really excellent and under-utilised historical source. For whatever reason, the CIA has made a lot of digitised material available online.
- casually making my way through the cia reading room www.cia.gov/readingroom/
- Reposted by Alex LevinePolitical Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. ow.ly/BktL50XG3X9
- Reposted by Alex LevineDer wunderbare Paul Stubbs hat ein tolles Buch über die Blockfreien-Bewegung und die 1970er Debatten über eine neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung (NIEO) geschrieben. Lesetipp für alle, die sich für politische Ökonomie, historische Soziologie und den globalen Süden interessieren. Und/oder Jugoslawien.
- Reposted by Alex LevineIn better news my book is coming out in paperback next March (pre-orders now available)! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
- Reposted by Alex LevineMy article on Hans Kelsen and the world state is now published in open access on The Journal of Global History and you can check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S174....
- Reposted by Alex LevineIt was great to be at the launch by @miriamocal.bsky.social of Childhood and the Irish: A Miscellany edited by @salvadorryan.bsky.social last week at @ria.ie! Thinking back on the childhoods of two of the crucial Carmelite figures within my PhD was fascinating and so rewarding.
- Reposted by Alex LevineCongratulations to our former Visiting Fellow Simon Unger, who will be joining Princeton Theological Seminary as assistant professor of modern European Christianity next month! ptsem.edu/about/the-qu...
- Reposted by Alex Levine#CfP Call for Papers Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick: Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026 Submit to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
- Reposted by Alex LevineCongratulations to author @hpollingalay.bsky.social, whose book OCCUPIED WORDS has been selected by @choicereviews.bsky.social as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2025! bit.ly/4oFY9zt
- Reposted by Alex LevineA special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alex LevineEverybody is talking about culture – and nobody agrees on what it means. If you want to think about why, you can check out my book published this week. “The Politics of Culture“ is about how three political movements used the concept of culture in France between the late 1960s and the early 1980s:
- Reposted by Alex LevineAbiding Influence by Giuseppe Paparella shows how presidents' nationalist beliefs can influence distinct foreign policy attitudes that have underpinned important US foreign policy decisions and turning points in the Asia Pacific ow.ly/OiQU50XmeR1
- Reposted by Alex LevineDelighted to receive my copy of Framing the First World War, a great collection edited by @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social and @dmorganowen.bsky.social who have put together a broad range of original essays
- Reposted by Alex Levine„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.
- Reposted by Alex Levine📣Out now on #firstview! Laura Newman (@ucl.ac.uk) David Green (@davidgreen.bsky.social) and Harry Smith (@exeter.ac.uk) on 'Vision Impairment and the British Post Office, c.1860 to 1910' #Work #Disability #Employment #PostOffice 19thc 20thc📮🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Alex LevineCongratulations 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
- Reposted by Alex LevineNeuerscheinung: "Das gelebte Europa!" Ich freue mich übermäßig, dass dieses von Florian Greiner und mir herausgegebene Themenheft heute erschienen ist - mit fünf großartigen Beiträgen, von Abolitionskampagnen über Wein und Versicherungen bis hin zu faschistischen Netzwerken und Siedlerkolonien...
- Das Projekt Europa begann nicht erst mit der EU – es wurde seit dem 19. Jh. gelebt, erdacht und bestritten. Das neue Themenheft von Geschichte und Gesellschaft erkundet, wie es sich in Alltag und Praxis, Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur formte. 🔗 www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
- Reposted by Alex LevineDas Projekt Europa begann nicht erst mit der EU – es wurde seit dem 19. Jh. gelebt, erdacht und bestritten. Das neue Themenheft von Geschichte und Gesellschaft erkundet, wie es sich in Alltag und Praxis, Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur formte. 🔗 www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
- Reposted by Alex LevineThey need to add a haček, but other than that, I quite like our cover.
- Reposted by Alex LevineMy book on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s is available for preorder (discount code: CUP20), for more info and kind words of Dagmar Herzog and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social see: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...
- Reposted by Alex LevineI've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out! lsupress.org/978080718678...
- Reposted by Alex LevineThe newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...
- Reposted by Alex LevineDelighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.
- New article (OA): Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social on 'Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
- Reposted by Alex Levine📣 Latest content in English 'Two Protestant Assemblies in #Tianjin: In Search of Markers of Certainty' by Isabelle Thireau (@ehess.fr) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
