Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Fall of France, V, The French, III: The Emperor's Daughters

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(Edit: I'd let this stand, as I have other things to write, but it's just too darn rough to go without a little polishing.) It...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Plantation of the Atlantic XVI: Nantucket Later: Or, if you have to ask to see it, you probably know the answer

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There was a young man from Nantucket/.... It's as though I started with "Nantucket Origins," but the other way round. That...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Fall of France, V: The French, II: Why "Manoeuvre" Instead of "Maneuver," apart from me trying to hit you over the head with how Canadian I am?

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I'm going to double down on this whole "[Prussian*-]German way of war" thing today. Two contexts, the historiographic being R...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Fall of France, 5: Yeah. About the French? They were involved, too.

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So here's the latest in a continuing series that I was thinking was maybe played out. But away on a blog that I read all the time, by a ...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Plantation of the Atlantic, XV: Halfway Where?

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It's time to talk about catechism, slavery, identity, and another Seventeenth-Century-New-England-Dog-in-the-Nighttime: the Halfway Cove...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Patent Trolls Again: High Temperature Steam, Boilers, and World War II.

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If you follow the Admiralty's technological progress from Naval Estimate to Naval Estimate through the Nineteenth Century in the popula...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Plantation of the Atlantic, XIV: Praying For a Pale

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So Nathan Myhrvold is in the news again. (Well,  Slate, anyway.) And this time the patent troll is arguing about how America just isn'...