proofing coochee

page proofs for coochee are in!  wheeeee!

19 august update: review complete and comments returned!!! 

2024 reading

as i watch the continued degradation of our republic by a rogue supreme court, i've done a little reading, some of it oddly reassuring --- "apprentice in wonderland" was particularly apropos --- 

**John Ghazvinian, America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present (2021)

 Michael Pye, Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age (2021)

**Fernando Cervantes, Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and C0nquest (2021)

John Parker, ed. Great Kingdoms of Africa (2023)

**Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (2016)

 *Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopians, A History (1998)

Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (2005)

*Michael Grant, The Roman Forum (1970)

*Justin Marozzi, Baghdad, City of Peace, City of Blood: A History in Thirteen Centuries (2014)

Willemijn van Dijk, Via Roma: The History of Rome in Fifty Streets (2015)

 Daniel Lewis, Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of the Future (2024)

*Max Rodenbeck. Cairo, the City Victorious (1998)

*Stephen Warren, The Worlds The Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America (2014)

Judith Herren, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe (2020)

*H. W. Brands, Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and The Brawling Birth of American Politics (2023)

Mary Beard, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (2023)

**Dennis C. Rasmussen, Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders (2021)

**Roger Crowley, Spice: The 16^th Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World (2024)

Ramin Setoodeh, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass (2024)

*Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (2005)

***Dennis Romano, Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City (2024)

Derek Wilson, Charlemagne (2006) [poorly written]

Michelle P Brown, Bede and the Theory of Everything (2023)

***Irene Vallejo, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (2022)

Hamish Coghill, Lost Edinburgh (2008)

*Michael Fry, Wild Scots: Four  Hundred Years of Highland History (2005)

**Michael Fry, Edinburgh: A History of the City (2009)

Ian Mortimer, Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter (2024)

Paul Stephenson, New Rome: The Empire in the East (2021)

Ernle Bradford, The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople (2014)--reread

Robin Waterfield, Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy (2023)

James R. Gaines, Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (2005)

*Karen Armstrong, The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts (2019)

Rowland J. Mainstone, Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church (1988)

*Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (1839)

*Jürgen Osterhammel,  Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter With Asia (2018)

Victorino Matus, Vodka: How a Colorless, Odorless, Flavorless Spirit Conquered America (2014)

***Hershel Shanks, Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: From Solomon to the Golden Dome (2007)

**Olivia Williams, Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London (2014)