dissertationreviews.org - Dániel Margócsy

A review of The Living Rock: Natural, Human, and Sacred Histories of the Earth, 1680-1740, by Lydia Barnett. How do you write a history of the Earth from Noah’s Flood to the Apocalypse in an age that rewards piecemeal empirical research? How do you reconcile your overarching theories with the tidbits of evidence that the Bible, figure stones and Platonic myths provide? Lydia Barnett’s The Living Rock offers a refreshing intellectual history of how European scholars tackled these problems in the…  »

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@john_s_wilkins: Dániel Margócsy review of Lydia Barnett’s thesis: Natural, Human, & Sacred Histories of the Earth, 1680-1740 http://t.co/wYKhsR6X #histsci

30.01.2012 16.39.31

@darwinsbulldog: Dániel Margócsy review of Lydia Barnett’s thesis: Natural, Human, & Sacred Histories of the Earth, 1680-1740 http://t.co/wYKhsR6X #histsci

30.01.2012 16.13.25

@beckyfh: Dániel Margócsy review of Lydia Barnett’s thesis: Natural, Human, & Sacred Histories of the Earth, 1680-1740 http://t.co/wYKhsR6X #histsci

30.01.2012 14.44.39

@rmathematicus: MT @jamesposkett The Living Rock: Natural, Human, and Sacred Histories of the Earth, 1680-1740 Lydia Barnett #histsci http://t.co/hjGCLRTw

30.01.2012 11.39.40

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austenonly.com - jfwakefield

Last week I reviewed Vauxhall Gardens: A History by David Coke and Alan Borg. That book, while fascinating, gigantic in size and scope, and well worth its price, is rather expensive and I wanted to point you in the way of a more reasonably-priced soft cover book on the same topic,  The English Pleasure Garden by Sarah Jane  Downing, published by Shire. This is not a very large book, only 64 page in all, but it manages to be a comprehensive overview on the subject of those lost pleasure gardens,…  »

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@ShireHistories: RT @austenonly: Book Review: The English PLeasure Garden1660-1860 by Sarah Jane Downing http://t.co/QwBTlagq @Shirepublisher

24.01.2012 03.06.15

@Jason_M_Kelly: RT @austenonly: Book Review: The English PLeasure Garden1660-1860 by Sarah Jane Downing http://t.co/mVBwpHjL @ShireHistories

24.01.2012 02.49.03

@austenonly: Book Review: The English PLeasure Garden1660-1860 by Sarah Jane Downing http://t.co/CbZDi4Pq @ShireHistories

24.01.2012 02.46.47

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londonhistorians.wordpress.com - Mike Paterson

With this new book, prolific London history author David Long returns to the London Underground (an earlier work, The Little Book of the London Underground (2009), is a compendium of interesting facts, stories and statistics about the network). This is the first book on the topic which I have read that focuses purely on the aesthetics of the system. Except in passing, you will find very little in this book about engineering, trains, timetables and the like. It is – as the title suggests – all a…  »

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@VictorianLondon: Review: London Underground. Architecture, Design and History. http://t.co/4qcEcv0j Blog post review of new David Long book.

23.01.2012 04.34.40

@LondonHistorian: Review: London Underground. Architecture, Design and History. http://t.co/4qcEcv0j Blog post review of new David Long book.

23.01.2012 04.30.03

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@sepoy: Replug: My review of Yasmin Saikia’s "Women, War, and the Making of #Bangladesh: Remembering 1971" in Dawn http://t.co/08y2m9wj #Pakistan

22.01.2012 07.41.31

@rchops: My review of Yasmin Saikia’s "Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971" http://t.co/08y2m9wj A longer essay is forthcoming

21.01.2012 22.16.34

@historianess: RT @salmaan_H: My review of Yasmin Saikia’s "Women, War, & the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971" http://t.co/SweTB3DF

21.01.2012 21.55.26

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andrewdevenney.net - Andrew D Devenney

Orlando Figes. The Crimean War: A History. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011. vii + 576 pp. Bibliography, Index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8050-7460-4. Prior to picking up this book, I had only two cursory impressions of the work of Orlando Figes. The first came from having to peruse a previous book of his — A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (1998) — for my doctoral comprehensive examinations back in 2001-2002. As is the nature of a comp experience, I now remember next to …  »

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@lemont: Next day pimpage from my blog: "Capsule Review – THE CRIMEAN WAR by Orlando Figes" http://t.co/298MYfPZ

12.01.2012 09.32.51

@Airminded: RT @adevenney: Next day pimpage from my blog: "Capsule Review – THE CRIMEAN WAR by Orlando Figes" http://t.co/WGlTAPcJ

12.01.2012 08.22.38

@sharon_howard: RT @adevenney: Next day pimpage from my blog: "Capsule Review – THE CRIMEAN WAR by Orlando Figes" http://t.co/WGlTAPcJ

12.01.2012 08.18.56

@adevenney: Next day pimpage from my blog: "Capsule Review – THE CRIMEAN WAR by Orlando Figes" http://t.co/298MYfPZ

12.01.2012 08.04.34

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ianhopkinson.org.uk - Ian

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) is someone who has crossed the paths of a number of protagonists in books I have read on the history of science, including Antoine  Lavoiser, Joseph Banks and the Lunar Society. I thought I should read something on the man himself: “The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin” by H.W. Brands. Franklin trained as a printer, as an apprentice to his brother. This was a route into learning since he got to read a lot, interacted with learned men and also…  »

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@darwinsbulldog: 18thC political history by stealth (or via #histsci) MT @SmallCasserole: ‘The First American’, a biography of Franklin http://t.co/r4usKN3f

04.01.2012 15.22.15

@rmathematicus: 18thC political history by stealth (or via #histsci) MT @SmallCasserole: ‘The First American’, a biography of Franklin http://t.co/oRPYKcIh

04.01.2012 12.05.32

@beckyfh: 18thC political history by stealth (or via #histsci) MT @SmallCasserole: ‘The First American’, a biography of Franklin http://t.co/r4usKN3f

04.01.2012 11.18.22

@SmallCasserole: @rmathematicus @darwinsbulldog possible for Giant’s Shoulders: Review of The First American, Brand’s biog. of Franklin: http://t.co/8UXbUClu

04.01.2012 10.56.44

@SmallCasserole: Book review: The First American, H.W. Brand’s biography of Benjamin Franklin: http://t.co/8UXbUClu

04.01.2012 10.53.37

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guardian.co.uk - Colin Burrow

A flawed but dazzling study of the origins of the renaissance In the winter of 1417 the papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini made a great discovery. In an abbey in Germany he came across a manuscript of a long-lost classical poem, Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of the Universe"). This event is vividly described by the renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt in The Swerve. He sees it as the origin of the renaissance and, in effect, of modernity. What was the poem that Poggio rediscover…  »

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@mercpol: Colin Burrow demolishes Stephen Greenblatt’s entertaining but silly The Swerve: how the Renaissance Began via @guardian http://t.co/g6gThR9Z

24.12.2011 06.57.02

@prof_gabriele: Colin Burrow demolishes Stephen Greenblatt’s entertaining but silly The Swerve: how the Renaissance Began via @guardian http://t.co/g6gThR9Z

24.12.2011 06.20.49

@medievalqub: Colin Burrow demolishes Stephen Greenblatt’s entertaining but silly The Swerve: how the Renaissance Began via @guardian http://t.co/g6gThR9Z

24.12.2011 01.59.41

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guardian.co.uk - Richard Drayton

The violence at the heart of colonialism is exposed in Richard Gott’s history "We insisted on reserving the right to bomb niggers." So David Lloyd George explained the British government’s demand at the 1932 World Disarmament Conference to keep the right to bomb for "police purposes in outlying places". Airpower had shown its value in spreading what Winston Churchill, when defending in 1919 the use of poison gas against "uncivilised tribes", had called "a lively terror". Richard Gott shows how a  »

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@historianess: v @rchops "it is the privilege of conquerors to tell stories that flatter their own past." http://t.co/8MM9eugc

10.12.2011 08.47.15

@rchops: Guardian review of Richard Gott’s Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by http://t.co/l5Mv8OfV (via @sepoy on CM)

10.12.2011 08.40.15

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@3pipenet: Renaissance scholar Ingrid Rowland seems to miss/ignore Robert Hughes’ epic factual blunders in her review of Rome. http://t.co/NIKXz0MV

05.12.2011 22.26.47

@BibliOdyssey: NYRB review of Robert Hughes’ *Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History* http://t.co/LZLeSMpu

05.12.2011 21.53.33

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@3pipenet: RT @albertis_window New post! Review of Noah Charney’s new book "The Thefts of the Mona Lisa." http://t.co/ZLNlU76A #arthistory

27.11.2011 23.18.00

@albertis_window: New post! Review of Noah Charney’s new book "The Thefts of the Mona Lisa." http://t.co/LrQ0YAsD #arthistory #art #books #giftideas

27.11.2011 23.15.53

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froginawell.net - Jonathan Dresner

For a little entertainment this Thanksgiving, I read Andrew Rankin’s Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide (Kodansha, 2011).1 Since I’m teaching both Samurai and Early Japan this semester, seemed like a good supplemental read, and this is the first thing resembling a lull I’ve had all semester. This is an attractive little book, substantially researched, but not much of a history. It’s more like a miscellany, a collection of materials in search of a thesis. Andrew Rankin is a graduate student…  »

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@jondresner: In which I take a Thanksgiving Break and read something … about samurai suicide. http://t.co/sZQGKryu #ThingsWeDoForFun

27.11.2011 11.24.30

@froginawellnet: Review of Andrew Rankin’s "Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide" by @jondresner http://t.co/3rCxSfS3

27.11.2011 11.23.14

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wondersandmarvels.com - PamelaToler

By Pamela Toler, W & M Contributor I’ve been studying Islamic history for a long time now.  (Stops to count on her fingers. Thirty years??  Really??  Counts again. Dang. ) Last year I discovered the best general book on Islamic history I’ve ever read:  Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tanim Ansary.  I underlined as I read.  I annotated.  I put little Post-It tabs at critical points, the durable ones so I could go back to key arguments in the future.  In short,…  »

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@CloudHopper9: NEW: If you only read one book on Islamic history http://t.co/bY6dKDCj

20.11.2011 08.34.01

@Happy_Historian: Postive Review of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by @history_geek http://t.co/hw0cLD1c

19.11.2011 18.35.01

@history_geek: NEW: If you only read one book on Islamic history http://t.co/bY6dKDCj

19.11.2011 18.24.49

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lrb.co.uk

‘Civilisation’s going to pieces,’ Tom Buchanan, the Yale-educated millionaire, abruptly informs Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard? … The idea is if we . . .

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@fleming77: Whoops "Foregoing cogent argument, Ferguson collects much quiz-friendly information" a critique by the way http://t.co/5kRdD62m

13.11.2011 03.58.47

@alexismadrigal: "A personal attack that amounts to libel": Niall Ferguson on Pankaj Mishra’s review of Civilisation http://t.co/X74HeH6G HT @RichardEvans36

13.11.2011 05.31.00

@PD_Smith: "A personal attack that amounts to libel": Niall Ferguson on Pankaj Mishra’s review of Civilisation http://t.co/X74HeH6G HT @RichardEvans36

13.11.2011 03.15.59

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@darwinsbulldog: David Wootton is not into social construction of knowledge: review of Westman & Shapin/Schafffer in TLS 21 Oct http://t.co/Kznuf3av #histsci

07.11.2011 06.38.51

@beckyfh: David Wootton is not into social construction of knowledge: review of Westman & Shapin/Schafffer in TLS 21 Oct http://t.co/Kznuf3av #histsci

07.11.2011 05.39.02

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russianhistoryblog.org

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@jmadelman: MT @dancohen: Love this new model of scholarly review: important book comes out, scholars in the field blog reactions: http://t.co/Y3S2hhHw

24.10.2011 16.40.46

@sleonchnm: Love this new model of scholarly review: important book comes out, 6 scholars in the field blog their reactions: http://t.co/731hnMh3

24.10.2011 13.40.28

@sepoy: Love this new model of scholarly review: important book comes out, 6 scholars in the field blog their reactions: http://t.co/731hnMh3

24.10.2011 13.11.37

@adevenney: Love this new model of scholarly review: important book comes out, 6 scholars in the field blog their reactions: http://t.co/731hnMh3

24.10.2011 13.03.49

@finnarne: Love this new model of scholarly review: important book comes out, 6 scholars in the field blog their reactions: http://t.co/731hnMh3

24.10.2011 13.03.13

@dancohen: Love this new model of scholarly review: important book comes out, 6 scholars in the field blog their reactions: http://t.co/731hnMh3

24.10.2011 12.53.33

@aeguerson: Love this new model of scholarly review: important book comes out, 6 scholars in the field blog their reactions: http://t.co/731hnMh3

24.10.2011 15.35.00

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spectator.co.uk

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@EarlyModernNow: Masques of beauty and blackness (a review of ‘Ben Jonson’ by Ian Donaldson) | Spectator (@The_Spectator) http://t.co/FMrKsROm

17.10.2011 08.01.00

@DaintyBallerina: RT @ihr_history: Was Ben Jonson ‘Britain’s first literary celebrity’? http://t.co/xdYWwj3A

17.10.2011 02.40.32

@ihr_history: Was Ben Jonson ‘Britain’s first literary celebrity’? http://t.co/t3i8zJnM

17.10.2011 02.38.45

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austenonly.com - jfwakefield

This hefty volume arrived with the morning post, and I have spent the past  few absorbing hours comparing and contrasting it with my copy of the Third Edition of Jane Austen’s Letters (1995), also edited by Deirdre Le Faye and similarly published by the Oxford University Press. I cannot, understandably, give a full, detailed and considered review of the at this point, but want to share with you my first impressions of it (pun entirely intended), for I’m so pleased to find certain additions to t…  »

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@eleanorcastile: Jane Austen’s Letters, Fourth Edition, edited by Deirdre Le Faye: an interim review http://t.co/wCL2iCLc /via @wordpressdotcom

14.10.2011 07.15.32

@austenonly: Jane Austen’s Letters, Fourth Edition, edited by Deirdre Le Faye: an interim review http://t.co/wCL2iCLc /via @wordpressdotcom

14.10.2011 07.08.31

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georgianlondon.com

I have been lucky enough to receive a review copy of The Music Trade in Georgian England, edited by Michael Kassler and published by Ashgate.  Well, where to start?  The depth of knowledge displayed by the contributors to this book is deeply impressive and the reader comes away with a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of music production, sale and reproduction in Georgian England.  Make no mistake, this isn’t for anyone wanting a light read: it’s 576 pages of densely packed and he…  »

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@austenonly: RT @lucyinglis: Book Review: The Music Trade in Georgian England http://t.co/fNYmoyi1

13.10.2011 02.28.09

@essiefox: RT @lucyinglis Book Review: The Music Trade in Georgian London http://t.co/qyzDsE9s

13.10.2011 02.09.59

@thefrolick: RT @lucyinglis: Book Review: The Music Trade in Georgian England http://t.co/AYmlSe4G

13.10.2011 02.16.10

broadsides 14 October 2011 Share:

nybooks.com

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@rogueclassicist: #classicalbook ~ Alexander: How Great? [Mary Beard reviews a pile of Alexander books] http://t.co/scUsToZj

12.10.2011 08.55.53

@EarlyModernNow: Alexander: How Great? by @wmarybeard | The New York Review of Books http://t.co/TM0kvSGR

12.10.2011 08.02.11

@adrianmurdoch: Alexander: How Great? Mary Beard in the NYRB http://t.co/2feiYZqe

11.10.2011 21.20.25

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adrianmurdoch.typepad.com - Adrian Murdoch

My review of Lindsay Powell’s Eager for Glory, his biography of Drusus the Elder, is up over at UNRV History: Drusus the Elder is a shadowy figure. He is either remembered as the good looking Ian Ogilvy in the 1976 BBC television series of Robert Graves’ I Claudius, horsing around in the baths with his brother, George Baker’s Tiberius; or he is associated with the Drususstein, the haphazard-looking commemorative monument in the German city of Mainz. Neither image does Drusus justice and it come…  »

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@Lindsay_Powell: Review – Eager for Glory http://t.co/dxhXhPEu

11.10.2011 00.14.52

@adrianmurdoch: Review – Eager for Glory http://t.co/dxhXhPEu

10.10.2011 21.53.00

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3pipe.net - H Niyazi

Devotion by Design was published to accompany the 2011 National Gallery London exhibition of Italian altarpieces before 1500. Written by Dr. Scott Nethersole, currently a lecturer in Italian Renaissance art at The Courtauld Institute, it provides a fascinating exploration of the challenges facing art historians involved in the study of altarpieces. That the volume manages to acknowledge these issues in the course of its presentation, and still remains accessible to a general audience is among i…  »

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@flissina: Bool Review | @3pipenet on ‘Devotion by Design’ catalogue of NGL exhibition goo.gl/mxMvt

05.10.2011 15.40.13

@PrimitiveMethod: New book review! Estranged devices of devotion, looking at fascinating NGL catalogue on pre 1500 Italian altarpieces http://t.co/axKfVzsu

05.10.2011 10.09.12

@3pipenet: New book review! Estranged devices of devotion, looking at fascinating NGL catalogue on pre 1500 Italian altarpieces http://t.co/axKfVzsu

05.10.2011 09.56.50

broadsides 7 October 2011 Share:

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@medievalqub: Reinventing the night (review) – ‘Evening’s Empire: A history of the night in early modern Europe’ @TheTLS: http://t.co/lFHP3ChY ~ drspk

03.10.2011 03.45.54

@medievalqub: Reinventing the night (review) – ‘Evening’s Empire: A history of the night in early modern’ Europe @TheTLS: http://t.co/lFHP3ChY ~ drspk

03.10.2011 03.41.39

@sharon_howard: RT @walterolson: History of how early modern Europe began socializing after dark [Blanning, TLS via @andrewhazlett] http://t.co/soXWE4fM

02.10.2011 23.30.06

@AndrewHazlett: Very cool cultural history: Evening’s Empire – how early modern Europe discovered life after sunset http://j.mp/mVCjSe via @aldaily

02.10.2011 14.27.48

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twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com - LorettaChase

Loretta reports: “’You cannot conceive the uneasiness which arises from the total want of so essential an Article as Money.’” So wrote General Washington to the governors of the United States in January 1782.  He was pleading for pay for the officers and soldiers who’d fought in the American Revolution—which wasn’t over yet, by the way. This may be news to the vast majority who believe that the revolution ended with Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781.  In fact, the war didn’t officia…  »

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@opheliacat: New post: Fascinating look at post-#RevWar America: Review of "American Crisis" by William M. Fowler, Jr.: http://t.co/6UAmHMh9

27.09.2011 04.49.36

@2nerdyhistgirls: New post: Fascinating look at post-#RevWar America: Review of "American Crisis" by William M. Fowler, Jr.: http://t.co/6UAmHMh9

27.09.2011 04.49.02

broadsides 27 September 2011 Share:

online.wsj.com

What did Lord Byron really get up to that summer of 1816? J.S. Tennant reviews Byron in Geneva by David Ellis in The Wall Street Journal.

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@essiefox: What did Lord Byron really get up to that summer of 1816? http://ht.ly/6E3em Review

25.09.2011 01.50.16

@HistorianLaura: What did Lord Byron really get up to that summer of 1816? http://ht.ly/6E3em Review

25.09.2011 01.21.34

@LadyLittleton: “@KateMayfield: What did Lord Byron really get up to that summer of 1816? http://t.co/m4B8qZc8 Review”

25.09.2011 01.20.17

broadsides 25 September 2011 Share:

online.wsj.com

Felipe Fernández-Armesto reviews Holy War: How Vasco Da Gama’s Epic Voyages Turned the Ride in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations, Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem by Carol Delaney, Columbus: The Four Voyages by Laurence Bergreen and The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery by Douglas Hunter.

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@rachel_gibbons: Wow. Fernandez Armesto pulling absolutely NO punches in his review of 4 books on Age of Exploration (ht @medievalist1) http://t.co/X9vUsvIT

17.09.2011 08.25.42

@medievalist1: A must-read review of four books on Age of Exploration–the dangers of uninformed history-writing: http://t.co/2xmqXdXq

17.09.2011 06.32.26

broadsides 18 September 2011 Share:

nybooks.com

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@flissina: Anthony Grafton in NYRB on catalogue of the exhibition at the Met in 2002 ‘Tapestry in the Renaissance’ bit.ly/qc3cnO (via @berfrois)

17.09.2011 01.44.59

@3pipenet: Great Walls http://t.co/XS7AkpTd (by Anthony Grafton, @nybooks ’02) #Renaissance #tapestries

16.09.2011 23.08.49

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teaattrianon.blogspot.com - elena maria vidal

A new book on Mary I is reviewed at the blog Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen. It’s best to start with the positives of this book and there are many. Undoubtedly this biography is the most important one of Mary in regards to her marriage, her husband’s role as King of England, and Anglo-Spanish relations in general throughout the course of Mary’s lifetime. Edwards is a Modern Languages Faculty Research Fellow in Spanish at Oxford University and specialises in Early Modern Spain. He has already wr…  »

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@NasimT: England’s Catholic Queen: A new book on Mary I is reviewed at the blog Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen.It’s best t… http://t.co/mz2wUX8O

16.09.2011 01.09.25

@emvidal: England’s Catholic Queen http://t.co/Bt74rWX7 #queens #royalty #spain #UK #history #biography #books

15.09.2011 19.58.51

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guardian.co.uk - Isabel Hilton

Julia Lovell’s lucid account of the opium wars in China shows their impact and how attitudes acquired in the mid-19th century persist to this day In July 1840 a fleet of British warships approached the southern coast of China, intent on avenging a series of insults and injuries inflicted on British subjects over the preceding months. The first battle lasted nine minutes. Thus began the first opium war, a series of unequal military encounters lasting until 1842. A second opium war culminated in …  »

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@moncur_d: The Opium War by Julia Lovell – review http://t.co/AWtbxkx via @guardian

10.09.2011 20.27.03

@GraniteStudio: The Opium War by Julia Lovell – review by Isabel Hilton http://t.co/toXisQ6

10.09.2011 18.12.44

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lrb.co.uk

It was a hackneyed truth that while European Christian women in the 18th century were essentially free, ‘“Oriental” and Muslim women were incarcerated body and soul behind veils,’ as Margaret Hunt puts it. Browbeaten British wives accused oppressive husbands of Turkish despotism, . . .

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@LadyLittleton: Long view makes it utterly clear what a blessed relief it is for women to be born in 20th century. My review in LRB: http://t.co/x19U3Qc

06.09.2011 15.29.03

@HistorianLaura: Long view makes it utterly clear what a blessed relief it is for women to be born in 20th century. My review in LRB: http://t.co/x19U3Qc

06.09.2011 15.14.21

@Amanda_Vickery: My review of Margaret Hunt’s, Women in 18th Europe – from Ireland to the Urals, Spain to the Ottoman empire. In LRB: http://t.co/x19U3Qc

06.09.2011 08.09.58

@Amanda_Vickery: Long view makes it utterly clear what a blessed relief it is for women to be born in 20th century. My review in LRB: http://t.co/x19U3Qc

06.09.2011 07.54.03

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logosjournal.com - dalbanese

Never Pure, the title of Steven Shapin’s new collection of essays, refers to the fact that science always has been tainted inescapably by politics, morality, cultural subjectivity and the influence of elites. The subtitle, meandering and humorous, is a declarative underscoring of the author’s intent: to disabuse his audience of the idealized notion that pure [...]

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@EarlyModernXPhi: RT @darwinsbulldog Review of Steven Shapin, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if it were Produced by People http://t.co/wDzmhBC

29.08.2011 23.45.46

@rmathematicus: RT @darwinsbulldog Review of Steven Shapin, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if it were Produced by People http://t.co/dvz5co0

29.08.2011 23.20.41

@darwinsbulldog: Review of Steven Shapin, Never Pure: Historical Studies of #Science as if it were Produced by People: http://t.co/oLXaRK7 #histsci

29.08.2011 17.22.01

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nytimes.com - By IAN MORRIS

Charles C. Mann argues that ecological encounters since Columbus have affected much of subsequent human history.

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@jonathanrnash: "The Columbian Exchange has shaped everything about the modern world." http://t.co/BbvZUIF

21.08.2011 13.08.02

@wgthomas3: On the historians craft see 1493 – Uncovering the New World Columbus Created – By Charles C. Mann – Book Review: http://t.co/O6A6ebt

21.08.2011 06.54.26

broadsides 26 August 2011 Share:

independent.co.uk

Despite the authorial sketch ("She now lives in Dorset, where she teaches Latin"), anyone expecting a genteel account of "the women behind the Caesars" will be in for a shock. It includes a contemporary account of how Messalina (Mrs Claudius), passed her leisure hours: "She stood there naked and for sale, with her nipples gilded, under the trade-name of She-Wolf."

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ianhopkinson.org.uk - Ian

My next book review is on “Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement” by Desmond King-Hele which I reached via my former colleague, Athene Donald, you can read her review here. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) will always be best known as the grandfather of Charles Darwin. However he was a substantial figure in his own right. He was a doctor in and around Lichfield and Derby for his entire working life. By all accounts he was a good doctor, at a time when the medic’s tool kit was rather bare. …  »

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broadsides 7 August 2011 Share:

notevenpast.org

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@NotEvenPast: New book review: Ulinka Rublach’s "Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe." #historyofclothing http://t.co/mUhlqxL

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