Jul 11, 2011

Things Noted Here & There

by Cliopatria

Richard J. Salvucci, "How Google Disrespected Mexican History," Miller-McCune, 10 July, looks at an example of what we have to fear from Google.

Mia Fuller reviews R. J. B. Bosworth's Whispering City: Rome and Its Histories for the THE, 7 July.

Helen Castor reviews Caroline Walker Bynum's Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe in the THE, 7 July.

"In Pictures: Celebrating Machu Picchu's rediscovery," BBC, 7 July, is a slide show of photographs in celebration of the centennial of Hiram Bingham's recovery of the ancient Incan city's site.

Donald M. MacRaild reviews Emma Rothschild's The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History for the THE, 7 July.

Andrew Romano, "Who Was Barack Obama's Father?" Newsweek, 11 July, reviews Sally H. Jacobs's The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father. Jacobs has an essay, "The Tragic Life of Barack Obama's Father," Daily Beast, 9 July.

Tevi Troy, "Does Anyone Actually Read Bob Woodward's Books?" pundicity, 5 July, features Washington, DC's most discussed and least read books.