Showing posts with label Books That I Have Read. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books That I Have Read. Show all posts
Saturday, May 18, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXX: Quoi?

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  This one originally qualified as a response to something I read online: not here, of course: Over at Quora, where the best of the resident...
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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Boom: The Space Race, 1

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  Everyone has a first public event they remember, and for me, it is the live television broadcast of the landing of Apollo 9. I was a bit y...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVII: More From the Shimmering Sky

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  Nine years ago, so in 2014, some vaguely professional media people up in Nebraska decided that these six young people had something going ...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

The Iron Age Revival of the State, XXV, With Bonus Gathering the Bones Content: Shining New City on a Hill

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  Queen Dido of Carthage has come up in this blog in two very different contexts. First, "an urn said to contain the ashes of Dido...
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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Summer Trip and a Book: Reza Aslan's Zealot In Ranch Country

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 Sometime during his Christmas, 2013 visit to his sister, just as his mental decline was getting in the way of his packrat intellectual curi...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

A Technical, But Not At All Technological, Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1952: Pound Sterling But Also Energy

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  That was weird. So much for more talk about the Comet this week! (After a planned week off from work collapsed due to labour churn, befor...
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Saturday, July 9, 2022

A Technical Appendix About Airplane Crashes and Revisiting the Great Siege With Derek Leebaert

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  Per Wikipedia: Derek Leebaert  is an American technology executive and management consultant who writes books on history and politics, whi...
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Saturday, May 14, 2022

"I Would Run Away to the Air:" Industrial History of Strategy, Great Britain, and WWII: Preliminary Comments on a Projected Outline

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  Morbid thought for the day: No book is ever finished, except by the author's death. Not that I have that to worry about a posthumous e...
Friday, May 6, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: From Cuba to the Canaries, Mining Language

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 Shoutout to Allison Margaret Bigelow . I thought about using the frontispiece to her new book from the University of North Carolina Press *...
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Saturday, August 7, 2021

The Bishops' Sea: Admirals of the Ocean Seas

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  Our Vice-President for Retail Operations visited the store on Thursday. The white glove inspection went very well, and I'm pleased wit...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXII: Roman Britain's Window Into the Sacred Spring

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 The Roman Empire arrived in the United Kingdom in 43AD and left it in 408BC. These are relatively late and early dates compared with adjace...
Friday, February 5, 2021

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State: The Axial Age?

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  Not that I'm complaining or anything, but the Academia.edu algorithm can bombard you with tangents if once you reveal some idle curios...
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Friday, November 29, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXI: Silver and the State

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My schedule briefly had me working an overtime shift next week, so as long as that prospect was before me, I was working on September of 19...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, 19: Scheidel Versus Soap

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"Sacred Spring" is a thesis about cleanliness being next to godliness. The Bronze Age was the age of wool, not of metal...
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Friday, July 26, 2019

Tinplate: An Inquiry for a Vacation Week

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I should have taken a landscape portrait, but it was before breakfast.  Five weeks ago I went to visit my sister's family in Kamlo...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

The Bishop's Sea: Saint Colman, Saint Boniface and St. Tridwell, Pray for Us

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I'm not going to go pointing fingers, but  someone underperformed on the writing front this holiday long weekend. (In completely unre...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XIV: Geoffrey Crowther's Take

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"Cottonopolis." Probably a factory, not a tenement, not 1930s construction. I just liked the name. It's not uncommon for...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XIII: A Midsummer's Night Update

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I hope that you've had a restful June. I have, with the family visits and the vast amount of standing around involved in closing a groce...