Provocative piece: "The Return of History"

A very unsympathetic approach to anti-globalization attitudes, but it surely is true that fights over history are at the center of the debate:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/opinion/the-return-of-history.html

Potosi treasure..... still worth serious cash!

https://next.ft.com/content/2ec208f4-9b71-11e5-b45d-4812f209f861

2nd global economy lives on!

http://www.wsj.com/articles/never-has-steam-been-so-cool-1448987109

Fits with lecture 13?

http://app.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/73212b74-c1ba-11e4-8b74-00144feab7de.html

A trace of the 2nd global economy disappears

The company that built this network (and then underwent many corporate changes after that) finally goes out of business after being bought and folded into an American telecoms firm:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_%26_Wireless_plc#/media/File%3A1901_Eastern_Telegraph_cables.png

The heartland of the 2nd global economy still showing 100 years later.

Energy transformations at the root meant a long-lasting pattern:

https://mobile.twitter.com/tingilinde/status/649920619077861376/photo/1

2nd global economy as 1870 instead of my 1880 argument

http://equitablegrowth.org/todays-economic-history-1870-inflection-point-trade-transport/

And further on that info economy argument.

https://mobile.twitter.com/asymco/status/616703443273564160

Related to my argument tonight about the roots of the information economy!

https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/638375036152250372

The global economy before the American connection

(Not sure this link will work for everybody. If anybody finds a workaround, let me know.)

The story of an import so prized, royals were literally rolling in it Read the full story

I think this is the case as well with different historical narratives of the same time period

https://mobile.twitter.com/rjs/status/661335455120527360

Now THIS fits well with our class, no? ;)

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/oct/28/pagodas-quebec/

Question

Does the iCloud link for the notes work as well as the Dropbox ones?

The politics of history

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/world/asia/south-korea-to-issue-state-history-textbooks-rejecting-private-publishers.html?referer=

Think of this in relationship to lecture 3!

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21672080-end-sight-one-humanitys-deadliest-plagues-breaking-fever?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/end-sight-one-humanitys-deadliest-plagues-breaking-fever

A challenging article. Provocative for someone teaching like I do.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/are-college-lectures-unfair.html

My first thought: more quizzes? Yeah, right..... No thanks.

My second thought: I just want to tell a story, not necessarily pass on a body of knowledge. Is the article even addressing such a situation?

My third thought: I could change it up in a structure that guaranteed security for me and for the students. That's not the case at the moment.

But are all of those just rationalizations??

Slaves in our own time?!

> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/outlaw-ocean-thailand-fishing-sea-slaves-pets.html

Look how far away from Potosi this silver was found

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11588969/Captain-Kidds-treasure-found-in-Madagascar.html

Interesting thoughts about higher education

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/03f007c2-4b1a-11e5-b558-8a9722977189.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3jtHvBUS8

If we were following the same themes earlier and in Eurasia rather then the Americas

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21661564-ambitious-work-pushes-world-historys-focus-eastward-brilliant-threads

&

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/may/21/great-and-beautiful-lost-kingdoms/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR+Lost+kingdoms+elections+outer+space&utm_content=NYR+Lost+kingdoms+elections+outer+space+%7B0%7DCID_bf5f8d60165cbe6549db6e1bfb0e30e3&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=The%20Great%20and%20Beautiful%20Lost%20Kingdoms

The class' themes explained by a good writer. :)

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-coffee-of-civilization-in-iceland?intcid=mod-most-popular

& this one too from Mr. Gopnik:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/of-hippos-and-kings

Hello Fall 2015!

It's good to be back. :)