Notes on Turnbull’s The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan ( Read more... )

Notes on Indo-Roman Trade by Roberta Tomber

p. 13: Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s books are the basic modern texts.

p. 16: a pound of pepper costs 32 times the price of a pound of bread. NOT thousands and thousands of coins

p. 21: the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea mentions sesame oil and ghee as items traded

p. 27: Yavana (Romans) donated extensively to ( Read more... )

p. 134: the buffalo "was a kind of domestic animal among the Indians ( Read more... )

I am tired and dejected.  Sigh.

--Read Historia de Antigua o Baja California, Francisco Clavijero ( Read more... )

p. 5: slavers moved into frontier territory-- THIS IS KEY.
Sauer, Road to Cibola, passim ( Read more... )

p. 17.  Read Seventy-Five Years in California, by William Heath Davis. Here.

p. 32: The padres were better than the Pilgrims, and converted the natives rather than killing them.

p. 41: The Spanish built forts from Cabo San Lucas to Sonoma and from San Diego to Florida, covering the continent.

p. 78: Woodes Rogers' Voyage Round the Worldp. 80 ( Read more... )

p. xxiv: "But if the Indians were slaves, what were the padres ( Read more... )

p. viii: Oral history began (in Italy) as antagonistic to the written tradition and oriented to the "denial of memory" and the search for repressed memory ( Read more... )

This is all journal articles.

Weisler and Green, "The Mangarevan Sequence", Asian Perspectives, 41, 213ff, 2002

Weisler, "An archeological study of Mangareva, Man and Culture and Oceania, 12:61, 1996

Other material is mostly in French.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/07/12/040712fa_fact?currentPage=1