Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Columbian Exchange

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In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. No, wait: When Lugalzages i was king in Umma, Akkad came against him and defeated him. Sargon, w...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, X: Squanto's Town

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Let's begin with ....say... Stephen Greenblatt. You're probably too young to remember when the New Historicism  was actually new, b...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Gather the Bones, 12: Disembedded Capital

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Two inspirations for this post: first, from Benjamin Woolley's brilliant Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Sett...
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Running Away to the Air, 5: Wooden Wings

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Have you ever been told that "The wings of the Spitfires that won the Battle of Britain were made of British Columbia spruce?" Pr...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Gather the Bones, 11: 1450: Turtle Island Before Columbus: Or, The Conquest of Paradise By Something I'm Not Really Responsible For

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Look! It's snide mockery of Charles C. Mann.  And a reluctant appreciation of John Ralston Saul, not afraid to issue a book that rips of...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, IX: The Road to Norumbega

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Eben Norton Horsford might deserve to go down in history as the single worst American patent troll of the Nineteenth Century. I know that w...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Eighteenth Century: Building a Better Future Through Higher Energy Density?

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No "series" post here, but I missed a moment in the blogosphere a few weeks ago when people were talking about how the transition...