Michael Dettelbach Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Historian of science and technology. Here for the knowledge and all the reasons why people think they know something. Also @msdettelbach@mastodon.online.
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
William CrononMichael Dettelbach@brdemuth This may date me, but: William Cronon, Changes in the Land. Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire.
Paperback, 2003
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Have Never Been Modern
Bruno LaTourMichael Dettelbach@pashulman Latour, We Have Never Been Modern; Cunningham and Williams, Decentring the Big Picture; Wilson, Science’s Imagined Pasts.
Paperback, 1993
$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Immanuel KantMichael Dettelbach@ProfMytheli Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (esp. Part 4 on differences in national character); Kant and Forster, writings on race; Richards, "The Beautiful Skulls of Schiller and the Georgian Girl"
Paperback, 2004
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Footnote: A Curious History
Anthony GraftonMichael Dettelbach@shaisecunda Ann Blair's Too Much to Know (on commonplace books); Anthony Grafton's The Footnote; Dennis Duncan's recent Index, A History of the. I also found this Katz Center series https://t.co/fj5M1DjbWU illuminating, esp re Maimonides and Karo.
Paperback, 1999
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
Linda KinstlerMichael Dettelbach@brdemuth Come to this Court and Cry, by Linda Kinstler. Excellent meditation on memory and justice in light of the Latvian Holocaust.
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age
Ann M. BlairMichael Dettelbach@shaisecunda Ann Blair's Too Much to Know (on commonplace books); Anthony Grafton's The Footnote; Dennis Duncan's recent Index, A History of the. I also found this Katz Center series https://t.co/fj5M1DjbWU illuminating, esp re Maimonides and Karo.
Paperback, 2011
$27.50$13.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Donald WorsterMichael Dettelbach@brdemuth This may date me, but: William Cronon, Changes in the Land. Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire.
Paperback, 1992
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Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon
NovalisMichael Dettelbach@cwellmon I know you've quoted this one before: Die Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh - Trieb überall zu Hause zu sein. Novalis, Das allgemeine Brouillon, Materialien zur Enzyklopädistik 1798/99, Nr. 857.
Hardcover, 2007
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Dennis DuncanMichael Dettelbach@shaisecunda Ann Blair's Too Much to Know (on commonplace books); Anthony Grafton's The Footnote; Dennis Duncan's recent Index, A History of the. I also found this Katz Center series https://t.co/fj5M1DjbWU illuminating, esp re Maimonides and Karo.
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book