Things Noted Here and There

Early Modern Notes
Roy Booth,"The Folly of Thomas Appletree, 1579," Early Modern Whale, 30 May, discusses the accidental shooting of one of Queen Elizabeth's watermen.

Gavin Robinson,"Social-Political Animals: Humans and Non-Humans in Early Modern Society," Investigations of a Dog, 30 May, is the paper he gave two days earlier at Nottingham Trent University's Forward Symposium.

Nick,"The Mowing-Devil," Mercurius Politicus, 7 June, looks at a 1678 pamphlet that appealed to rural communities and dealt with the power relationships between middling landowners, who had broken the communities' moral economy, and their labourers.

Edward Vallance,"The Captivity of James II: Gestures of Loyalty and Disloyalty in Seventeenth-Century England," is the paper he gave at the Institute of Historical Research last week. Thanks to Christopher Thompson for the tip.

American Notes after the jump:

Adam Kirsch,"The Battle Cry of Freedom," NY Sun, 4 June, reviews Andrew Ward's The Slaves' War.

Joshua Kucera,"Rand's R and D (and secrecy)," SF Chronicle, reviews Alex Arbella's Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire.

Jeff Stein,"Collateral Damage," NYT, 8 June, reviews Eric Lichtblau's Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice. Thanks to Mary Dudziak for the tip.

Dan Eggen,"Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated," Washington Post, 9 June, finds an unpopular president increasingly appealing to historical analogies as his term draws to a close.