In not too long, the November issue of Historically Speaking will be shipping out. And, as usual, it will soon be posted on Project Muse. This issue features a forum with Joyce Appleby on the emergence of capitalism; Peter Coclanis and Stanley L. Engerman's discussion of the influence of Eugene and Elizabeth Fox Genovese; essays on the Christian America debate; and more. Here's the run down:
Historically Speaking (November 2011)
Taking Historical Fundamentalism Seriously
Johann N. Neem
Historians Meet Thanksgiving: What Would George Do?
Sam Wineburg and Eli Gottlieb
The Early Modern Origins of Capitalism: A Roundtable
The Cultural Roots of Capitalism
Joyce Appleby
What’s Left for Economics? A Comment on Appleby
Hans L. Eicholz
Comment on Appleby
Hendrik Hartog
Response
Joyce Appleby
Athens and Sparta and the War of Rank in Ancient Greece: An Interview with J.E. Lendon Conducted by Donald A. Yerxa
Labor Day: The Lessons of the Past
Robert H. Zieger
The Intellectual World of Southern Slaveholders: Two Assessments of the Recent Work of Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Sic et Non
Peter A. Coclanis
The Richness of Intellectual Life in the Antebellum South
Stanley L. Engerman
Teaching and Writing about the History of African-American Christianity: An Interview with Paul Harvey
Conducted by Randall J. Stephens
Then, and Then Again
Joseph A. Amato
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin: An Interview with Timothy Snyder
Conducted by Donald A. Yerxa
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3 comments:
Randall - I'm really looking forward to reading Donald's interview w/ Timothy Snyder. I think that all too often we forget the horrendous magnitude of Stalin and Hitler's crimes. It's bemusing that Churchill and Roosevelt referred to the former as "Uncle Joe" and that he was portrayed as a genial, high-spirited chap by the British and American media. Certainly the Red Army bogging down the Wermacht in the snows of Russia helped the Allies endure until superior American military production turned the tide. Yet, despite the necessity of Britain and America partnering with the Soviets, it's almost inconceivable that a man who killed upwards of 20 million of his own people could be portrayed as a nice guy.
I wonder if the image of "Uncle Joe" with a pipe has anything to do with this?
http://i872.photobucket.com/albums/ab286/pstlpkr/josephstalin.jpg
Possibly. Stalin typically smoked cigarettes instead, though. Indeed, Hitler ordered that Stalin's cigarette be removed from the picture of him authorizing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact because the Fuhrer thought the item was ill-fitting for "a historic agreement between two great nations". Interesting that he sweated the little things, while making plans to exterminate Europe's Jews and was possibly already thinking of turning on Stalin.
Source: Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, page 528.
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