Monday, June 3, 2019

Holding Captain Cook's Voyages in Your Hands

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A few weeks back, I made a fortunate discovery.  The Avenue Victor Hugo bookshop ( https://avenuevictorhugobooks.com/about/ ), for dec...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Thanksgiving 1805 in a Dangerous World

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This past Thanksgiving week, American news broadcasts and journals reported the death of missionary John Chau on North Sentinel Island in ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Cannibals All!

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             How often do we find, that when we happen upon a new book—invoking a fresh set of ideas—it changes our perceptions of familiar...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Early America in a Dangerous World

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             Dennis Malone Carter, Decatur Boarding the Tripolitan  Gunboat, 1878 US Navy Museum Following up a wonderful collabo...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Born in Boston, buried in a ‘foreign devil’ graveyard in China

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Pleased to be quoted in the Boston Globe's "Ideas" section on ‪Boston 's & ‪Salem 's connections to ‪China:  ...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Yankees Abroad: Early American Encounters in the World

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              I certainly found the people very civil & accommodating & they behaved              much better than I had any id...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Kinsmans: Love & Loss in Nineteenth-Century Macau

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Adam Matthew Editor's Choice blog, 7 August 2017: "I leave it for you to judge by your own feelings how utterly forlorn and desol...