Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Plantation of the Atlantic, XIII: New Towns

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Not to belabour the point, but we have enough details to  make it clear that there was a long-distance trade route running along the coast o...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

It Begins

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Here it is: first draft, first page. Hopefully, I won't just find myself trapped in a cycle of endless revision. The Plantation of...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, XIII, 1:Preparing The Ground

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So, the thesis, which I owe to a better historian than I, is that the story told by the many failed European colonies established on the Eas...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, XII: Evidence, Experts and the Source of the Susquehanna of th

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Historically, by 1650, and probably by about 1600, the Eastern seaboard of North America was linguistically organised in a way that no-one f...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, XI: The New Culdees

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So I'm taking it for granted that the Plantation of New Plymouth was a production unit inserted into an existing economy by a ramified E...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Privatising History: A Million Gnadenhuttens

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Now, I don't exactly value my insights into American politics highly, because I'm wrong virtually every time I  open my mouth. All t...
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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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