Orel Beilinson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Orel Beilinson

In 1884, the American journalist Theodore Stanton published a book about the Woman Question in Europe. He found it so odd that Austrian "schoolmistresses were paid the same as school-masters" that he thought the data was mistaken or that he misunderstood it. https://t.co/Um9UwOfRms

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I returned to Nelly Hanna's studies of early modern Cairo today. What a delight. Such an impressive breadth, culminating in the short yet provocative Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World: 1500–1800. If you are looking for something to read...

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@ArchivalDaze For the relationship between lighting and policing, see chapter 1 in Nicole von Germeten's new _The Enlightened Patrolman_. If you read Hungarian, Fábián Borbála has an interesting article on streetlights as "a social expectation" in 19th-century Budapest.

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One of the many reasons to like Merry Wiesner-Hanks is the effort she spends on writing textbooks. Her coauthored _A History of World Societies_ and _A History of Western Society_ have merits, but her Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789 is simply the best.

Orel Beilinson

One of the many reasons to like Merry Wiesner-Hanks is the effort she spends on writing textbooks. Her coauthored _A History of World Societies_ and _A History of Western Society_ have merits, but her Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789 is simply the best.

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Still one of the best opening paragraphs of all time. D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1926). https://t.co/lYwV0zqU6x

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It's funny how changing interests make you read books anew. I've read books like Wingfield's The World of Prostitution to learn about Austrian governance. Today I reread it to learn about young women. I read Schorske for fin-de-siecle Vienna, now for youth, politics & literature

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This year, 2 translations of Max Blecher's novel (written 1937; published posthumously 1971) appeared. Set in a sanatorium like the one where he was treated for spinal tuberculosis, it is a fantastic auto-fiction, though not as brilliant as _Adventures in Immediate Irreality_. https://t.co/AMgWIyvSd5

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Going over Naguib Mahfouz's fantastic novel Miramar. I forgot this gem of a passage: - Have you finally returned to the faith? - And you? Sometimes it seems to me like you don't believe in anything. He said angrily: "How can I not believe in God while burning in his hell?!? https://t.co/4mpER0aGq5

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@Mordechaile Suraiya Faroqhi's Artisans of Empire is a good start on the Ottoman Empire. Gabriel Baer wrote a few articles -- I believe all dated 1970 -- worth perusing (his vantage point is usually Ottoman Egypt). Also Willem Floor's book on 19th-century Iran. Can send a fuller bibliography!