Ted McCormick 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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Science & projects in early modern Britain/Ireland/Atlantic; books https://t.co/6SZWSk1EuC & https://t.co/NaUdi6aUBv; https://t.co/XYe3VOJbIH; views mine; he/him
Utopia: (Original Edition)
T. MoreTed McCormick"Throughout history, nation-states have revered their own, single, official languages, and vilified foreign noise. Plato dedicated his Republic to the mastery of Greek prose style; St. Thomas More's Utopia made all people equal citizens, provided they didn't speak French. Isidore
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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
Linda ColleyTed McCormick@mikers86 digging into my orals reading here but Kathleen Wilson, both The Sense of the People and The Island Race; Gerald Newman, Rise of English Nationalism; Linda Colley, Britons
Paperback, 2009
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900
K. RajTed McCormick@WilliamDeringer it doesn't take its cues from these but some chapters of Kapil Raj's Relocating Modern Science might count, and the stress on following people and things is there
Paperback, 2009
$139.99$114.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike DavisTed McCormickOff topic but only slightly: one of the best and most accessible histories of anti-homeless policies I’ve read (but for LA not NYC) is in Mike Davis’s City of Quartz
Paperback, 2018
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love: Couples I Love I Best Friends I Donuts & Coffee
Publishing JournalTed McCormickif you liked the Sokal hoax, when a mathematician roasted a theory journal for publishing stuff it wasn't competent to evaluate you'll love Inverse Sokal, which is the same mathematician opining to the government about stuff he's not competent to evaluate https://t.co/0S5Rf2DwTW
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Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Jennifer L. MorganTed McCormickI may add Jennifer Morgan's Reckoning with Slavery this year. It was used in a seminar recently and I'm wary of repetition, but histories linking new natural knowledge/concepts, technology, and social/political/economic processes as it does are the focus. https://t.co/KXJT8kEa2T
Paperback, 2021
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All We Saw: Poems
Anne MichaelsTed McCormick@alyssaharad Kimiko Hahn, Foreign Bodies Anne Michaels, All We Saw Carolyn Forché, Blue Hour and In the Lateness of the World
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Politics: Books I and II
AristotleTed McCormickif Western Civ Defenders were serious they'd make ensure that next to every Gideon Bible is Aristotle's *Politics* and an accessible translation of the Aeneid https://t.co/hlcb9frYZM
Paperback, 1996
$65.00$40.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Racial Contract
Charles W. MillsTed McCormickI’m finally reading Charles Mills on the “racial contract” and, well, https://t.co/U14zAojeq3
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State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State
Ulrike StrasserTed McCormickUlrike Strasser, State of Virginity https://t.co/pCbKdyCAgH
Paperback, 2007
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book