Liveblogging Mike Davis's book "Late Victorian Holocausts"
I just started reading this book, and I'm a few pages into the Preface.
Why don't I liveblog it.
(Note for those people who are new to my blog: I openly and freely make statements of political opinion and lots of other things.)
From the Acknowledgements:
...Nancy Peluso...
...well, I see whose family isn't naming their children "Nancy" for a generation. Then again...this is UC Berkeley, and while I'm not familiar with the political landscape of California, I know that college towns tend to be quite liberal and I know that she's been attacked from her left.
Remarks on the Preface so far:
Why don't I liveblog it.
(Note for those people who are new to my blog: I openly and freely make statements of political opinion and lots of other things.)
From the Acknowledgements:
...Nancy Peluso...
...well, I see whose family isn't naming their children "Nancy" for a generation. Then again...this is UC Berkeley, and while I'm not familiar with the political landscape of California, I know that college towns tend to be quite liberal and I know that she's been attacked from her left.
Remarks on the Preface so far:
- Haha, Ulysses S. Grant is an idiot.
- Wow, the British were a**holes.
- Modern Rather old, but still currently-in-use, stereotype of Egypt, to foreigners: Pyramids, the Great Sphinx, mummies in golden caskets, hieroglyphs, deserts with camels walking over them carrying people wearing too much cloth. Also, music that sounds like this. And if you push the person giving this stereotype hard enough, you might get them to add that the people are Arabs. Oh, there's also the world's longest river, the Nile. No mention, of course, about how it was the presence of the Nile that made possible some of humankind's earliest civilizations, as well as those palm trees that dot the place.
- Funny how so little of the western stereotype of Egypt has to do with modern Egypt--or, for that matter, any part of Egyptian history other than the most ancient, perhaps up to the time of Moses or so. The only vaguely Arabic aspect is the camel-rider's clothing.