Legacies of Atlantic slavery

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21698805-one-about-hold-elections-other-has-not-had-proper-government-months

Your framing of history always becomes political

I think you can see the basic framework of our class being discussed here:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/86c8faa8-1696-11e6-9d98-00386a18e39d.html

Great quote find

Hat/tip to Toren for this one:

"Slavery did not end because everyone became moral," he says. "The reason slavery ended is because we had an industrial revolution that made man's muscles obsolete. For the last 150 years, the economy has been based on man's mind. Capitalism, it turns out, works better when people are chasing a carrot rather than being hit with a stick. 

Found here: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/

Remember yellow fever from earlier lectures?

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21698597-unwelcome-resurgence-outbreak-yellow-fever-angola-could-go-global

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

https://www.openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/us-history

Another book with similar themes to the class

I'm sorry the NYRB is paywalled, but I do honestly think it is well-worth paying for a subscription. I consider it the premier intellectual journal in English, and it's only $6 or so a month.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/21/silk-roads-different-vision-of-history/

Those coal-gas holders I referred to tonight

Here's a picture of the famous one I mentioned outside the cricket pitch in London:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2010/aug/19/1

And here's a good piece on their history:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_holder