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Blogs about: Wolfgang Schivelbusch

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Gift ideas - Books to get or give13 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 5 days ago: I like books that challenge my views, as in the saying attributed to Mark Twain “What gets us … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Barbara Tuchman, Donald Vandergriff, martin van creveld, Paul Kennedy, Rupert Smith, william lind

Tackling the 'Mechanical Horse': A Response to Wolfgang Schivelbusch's 'The Railway Journey'

cmike3 wrote 3 months ago: When I think of Art & Technology, trains and commentaries on early locomotives do not come to mi … more →

Tags: Response, The Railway Journey

Mad Ones and Edible Histories

Weston Cutter wrote 6 months ago: Tom Folsom’s The Mad Ones             If you’re in touch enough with your inner teenager … more →

Tags: nonfiction, Bill McKibben, Richard Manning, Michael Pollan, Tom Folsom, Tom Standage, the mad ones, an edible history of humanity, Jack Kerouac

Attention Span - Jed Rasula

Steve Evans wrote 7 months ago: Esther Leslie | Hollywood Flatlands | Verso | 2004 The cover image of Eisenstein shaking hands with … more →

Tags: Attention Span 2008, Commented list, Esther Leslie, Peter Wollen, Roberto Calasso, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Banville, Vladimir Nabokov, Leonard Schwartz

Our metastable Empire, built on a foundation of clay13 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: More thoughts on the “dreamland” described by Wolfgang Schivelbusch in The Culture of De … more →

Tags: Grand Strategy, Post-WWII era over?, U.S. Dollar, recession, "culture of defeat"

Another perspective on Cordesman's "A briefing from the battlefield"8 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: Anthony H. Cordesman has provided some of the most comprehensive and reliable information about the … more →

Tags: Iraq / Afghanistan, Iraq War, Anthony Cordesman, currency flight, "culture of defeat", CSIs, Center for Strategic and International Studies, andrew sullivan

"Healthy and wealthy without you!"—The German's Historical Trouble with Coffee/ 德国人与咖啡的历史纠缠

Dun Wang wrote 2 years ago: Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants ( … more →

Tags: Coffee, 咖啡, Chicory, arabia

"Healthy and wealthy without you!"—The German's Historical Trouble with Coffee/ 德国人与咖啡的历史纠缠

Dun Wang wrote 2 years ago: Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants ( … more →

Tags: Coffee, 咖啡, Chicory, arabia

Hitler’s Oratory and Beethoven’s Pastoral/ 希特勒的演说术与贝多芬的《田园交响乐》4 comments

Dun Wang wrote 2 years ago: Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s … more →

Tags: 演说术, 贝多芬, Mussolini, FDR, 希特勒, New Deal, Pastoral, Hitler, oratory

Opium and Tea--Schivelbusch (1)/ 鸦片和茶

Dun Wang wrote 3 years ago: Opium for tea—a formula which not only explains the successes of English imperialism in the Far East … more →

Tags: Imperialism, Tea, Opium, Far East, 晚清与今天


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