Jun 30, 2011

Thursday's Notes

by Cliopatria

Daisy Banks interviews "Daniel Headrick on Technology and Nature," The Browser, 29 June, for his choice of five crucial books on the subject.

Ronald Hutton reviews Craig Koslofsky's Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe for the THE, 23 June. Jack Rakove, "The Secret Agent," The Book, 30 June, reviews Thomas J. Schaeper's Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy. Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Fight Over Common Sense," Daily Beast, 29 June, draws on her research for Common Sense: A Political History. Bookforum, 29 June, rounds up reviews of recent books on the reshaping of the British Empire.

Jean Bollack, "The Freudian romance," signandsight, 9 June, reviews Sigmund Freud's and Martha Bernays's "Sei mein, wie ich mir's denke. Die Brautbriefe". Unabridged edition in five volumes, vol. 1. Edited by Gerhard Fichtner, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis and Albrecht Hirschmüller. The review was originally published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 9 April 2011.

Toby Ash, "Norman Stone," Dabbler, 28 June, sketches Oxford's former modern European historian. See also: Boyd Tonkin, "From Tory to Turkey: Maverick historian Norman Stone storms back with partisan epic of Cold War world," Independent, 14 May 2010.