Hope to see you kids at today's LDM Fest

originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Brad Kane:

The Rose was pretty compelling, but my favorite of his was the '09 Grezeaux.
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Who are you and what have you done with Brad Kane?
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not at all, quite consistent actually
 
originally posted by .sasha:
Oswaldo! I presume you refer to La Voute Saint-Vincent.

I always thought there was something funny about me. Turns out I may be brett insensitive.
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The bretty wines from Villemade were the 09 Moulin Cheverny Pinot Noir "Desire" (very poopy) and the 09 Moulin 2009 Cheverny Rouge (half Gamay, half Pinot) that was less poopy, but still Bretton Woods.
 
Cliff, I'm enjoying After Tamerlane, by John Darwin (even though he spends much of the first chapter preemptively defending himself). Did you ever see/read it?
 
Can't say that I have -- the most recent grand syntheses I've looked at are Burbank and Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference and Domenic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
 
Must is a little strong, but it is fascinating -- the foundation, to my mind, of most efforts to present world history in a coherent, responsible way. He shows how to deal with the problems of scope and scale historians face when trying to deal with planetary changes over broad spans of time.
 
On behalf of the lurking illiterati, sincere thanks to Joe Dressner, David Lillie, the CSW staff and the small horde of overheated yet gracious winemakers. Joe's hair was indeed rocking. Very nice to meet and re-meet Brad, Jeff and Salil.

RT
 
originally posted by Cliff:
Must is a little strong, but it is fascinating -- the foundation, to my mind, of most efforts to present world history in a coherent, responsible way. He shows how to deal with the problems of scope and scale historians face when trying to deal with planetary changes over broad spans of time.
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i thought it was specifically about disease being the biggest force in shaping human history.
 
Well no, not the biggest force shaping human history, but a major and generally overlooked force. (He wrote it in the 1970s.) Looking at the history of disease opened up important new ways of thinking about how different populations have interacted with one another, on what terms, and how those relationships have changed over time.
 
originally posted by Cliff:
Well no, not the biggest force shaping human history, but a major and generally overlooked force. (He wrote it in the 1970s.) Looking at the history of disease opened up important new ways of thinking about how different populations have interacted with one another, on what terms, and how those relationships have changed over time.
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That sounds eerily similar to the themes sounded by Hans Zinsser in Rats, Lice and History and Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel. It sounds as if I should add it to my reading list.

Mark Lipton
 
Yes. To my mind, McNeill is the best of that bunch. For those with an interest in political economy, I would add Ken Pomeranz' The Great Divergence, the most influential challenge to Weberian rise-of-the-West arguments in the past dozen years.
 
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