Oct 2, 2008
Thursday's Notes
Carnival!History Carnival LXIX is up at American Presidents Blog.Dominic Sandbrook reviews Selwyn Parker's The Great Crash: How the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Plunged the World into Depression for the Telegraph, 27 September. Scott Reynolds Nelson,"The Real Great Depression," CHE, 17 October, argues that the analog to the recession we face is not 1929, but the world depression of the mid-1870s.
Exhibits:"Byzantium, 330 - 1453," an exhibit of 300 stunning works of art, some of which have not been previously exhibited, will open on 25 October at London's Royal Academy of Arts.
Eastern Science: John Keay,"What the West makes of Chinese science," TLS, 1 October, reviews Simon Winchester's Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the great secrets of China and Donald B. Wagner's Science and Civilization in China. Volume Five: Chemistry and Chemical Technology Part Eleven: Ferrous Metallurgy.
Hard Times:
Historical Google: Finally, in honor of its 10th anniversary, you can do a Google search as of January 2001. Cliopatria existed only in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. Hat tip.