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!

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last wk.

Benjamin Harris reviews "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German, and Dutch Empires c.1890-1914" by @tommenger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you are doing historical research on subjects such as (post-)colonial companies, labour, commodities or infrastructure/transport, consider applying! www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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...

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 ...

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It was a great pleasure talking about my book yesterday with the @transimperial.bsky.social and @recentglobe.bsky.social ! Hope to be back soon!

Centre for Transimperial History, Leipzig University@transimperial.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are restarting our series on transimperial history. Join us tomorrow for Tom Menger's book talk.

We are restarting our series on transimperial history. Join us tomorrow for Tom Menger's book talk.

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

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!

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....

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)

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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!

Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher - Member of the REVENANT (Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation) Research Group: www.euraxess.hr/jobs/416774

Postdoctoral Researcher - Member of the REVENANT (Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation) Research Group, supported by the European Research Council consolidator grant #101002908

A full-time position on a fixed-term contract to conduct research related to the overall objectives of the REVENANT project REQUIREMENTS:

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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!

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

Mark Condos@mark-condos.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Are you interested in how revenge and honour shaped British and French colonial warfare? Then check out my new book, Empire with a Vengeance, published with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Available now for pre-order from Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... @waterstones.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...

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!

global dis:connect@globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉 Book Launch: The Colonial Way of War 📅 9 Dec, 11:30 📍 Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich We’re excited to welcome former gd:c postdoc Tom Menger back for the launch of his new book with @universitypress.cambridge.org 👉 Publisher link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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...

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

The Society for the History of War @sochistorywar.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for SHoW 2025! 🇩🇪 Great conversations and even better company. Our members are at the heart of SHoW, and it really showed this year. Thank you to the ZMSBw and the University of Potsdam for their hospitality! If you have photos, please DM them our way!📸

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...

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

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...

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

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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...

Tom Menger@tommenger.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

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

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

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My author copies already came today! Online version is not yet available, but hard copies can already be ordered and official publication date should be very soon!

It's now been confirmed: my book The Colonial Way of War will finally come out in early August! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

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Newest in AI craze: Academia.edu now pushes AI-generated reviews of my own uploads on me: an AI-generated review of a book review (!)&a podcast in which a supposed Academia director has a “friendly chat” with undefined listeners (“folks”) abt an article of mine. Things are getting very weird indeed

Slightly different archive today than the ones I am used to!

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