More Things Noted
I can’t imagine being at a meeting of historians or anthropologists where everyone would start their mornings sitting in the conference room with laptops open, reading email, liveblogging, checking their RSS feeds, and having conversation in the meantime, unless that meeting was explicitly for “blogging historians” or some such. I like working like this (it’s a huge improvement over gathering in a panel and listening to four people read papers for twenty minutes each, and taking a few written notes that I’ll proceed to lose or forget), but it makes me wonder whether if I spent more time in these kinds of gatherings, I wouldn’t start to feel a progressive sense of alienation due to the relative simplicity of my technological habits.
At Mode for Caleb, Caleb McDaniel reflects on appropriate book ends and themes for a course in Nineteenth Century American History.
Miriam Burstein's"Gustav Doré Links" is your one-time stop for netlinks on the 19th century French illustrator.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft,"They Should Come Out as Imperialist and Proud of It," The Guardian, 10 May, traces a tradition of progressive imperialism and places the Euston manifesto group within it.
At Moby Lives Radio (6 May), Scott McLemee discusses his column"The Silencer," Inside Higher Ed, 12 April, which argued that people using cell phones in research libraries should be shot. Today, at Inside Higher Ed, he interviews Samuel Moyn, an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. Moyn has just published Democracy Past and Future, an edition of the essays of Pierre Rosanvellon, a French philosopher of"the history of the political."