Friday's Notes

Peter N. Miller,"The Big Picture," TNR, 30 July, reviews Michael McCormick's Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce AD 300-900 and Chris Wickham's Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800.

Here's the program for The Metropolis on Trial, a conference on the Old Bailey Proceedings and digital history, 10-12 July, at the Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. Some of the usual suspects -- Sharon Howard, Janice Liedl, David Silbey, Gillian Spraggs, Bill Turkel, Martin Wiener, Chris Williams, and John Carter Wood – presented.

Michel Guerrin,"Historic Pictures on Show in France," Guardian Weekly, 16 July, reviews"Trois ou quatre choses que je suis d'elle, la photographie" (Three or Four Things I Know about Photography), an exhibit at Gallery Lavet in the Normandy village of Saint-Germain-le-Vasson."The Birth of Photography," Guardian, nd, is a slide show of 11 of its photographs taken before 1910.

Eric Rauchway,"Bully!" TNR, 17 July, argues that John McCain misreads Theodore Roosevelt.

Adam Kirsch,"The Ruined City of Smyrna," NY Sun, 16 July, reviews Giles Milton's Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922.