Daniel Defoe portrait
“Crusoe to Climate Change: A Lesson in Cultural Path Dependence,” is a paper I will present at Stanford University at the #PCCBS at the end of this month.
#18thcent ##skystorians
Thinking about The War of the Emboabas - an early #18thcent conflict caused by gold, in Colonial Brazil, and then things went to heck for Portugal, for like... decades.
So I now ask - is Cryptocurrency the new gold? Are the Tech Bro Cartels disrupters, akin to the War of the Emboabas? #Skystorians
A free Dan Foster Mystery for Christmas! In 1799 the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden is presenting its Christmas panto when a killer strikes…The Volcano, or the Rival Harlequins is available on my website lucienneboyce.com/the-volcano-... #Christmas #18thCent #pantomime #DanFosterMysteries
I sat down and interviewed Micah Alpaugh, author of The People's Revolution of 1789. It's now available on the NBN Podcast over @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #18thcent #FrenchHistory 🗃️ If you have a book out, hit my DM.
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Micha Alpaugh, The People's Revolution of 1789 (Cornell University Press, 2024)
🗃️ Interviewing Micah Alpaugh, author of his new book, "The People's Revolution of 1789." On Monday, Micah and I will record a podcast for the New Books Network (NBN). Viva la France! #18thCent
Join us tomorrow, both in person in FAB 6.02 and online, to hear second year PhD Eloisa Ocando-Thomas present her WiP paper ‘eating, buying and selling food in 18th-century Caracas: Pulperas, guaraperas & female buyers in late colonial Venezuela’ #Skystorians #18thcent
