History - The Drafting Table

Some Say Jeremiah

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

The Left Bank of the Rhine

This post contains a review of Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country by Simon Winder, along with a bit of programming practice I did recently. Lotharingia is a history/travel book about the swath of Europe where French and Germanic cultural regions come into contact—and

History

Monsoon Legacy

This post is the first part of a two-part series I have planned. It is about the history of trade on the western Indian Ocean and is based on reviews of a couple of books I read this year. Part two [https://danbscott.ghost.io/monsoon-prospect/] will look forward at

Book

Polynesian Pacific

Sorry about having such a long gap between posting. I've been on a couple of business trips, and when I've been home my social calendar and the hot weather haven't left many good opportunities to sit down at my computer and write. Sea People:

History

Irrigation, untitled

Recently I read a few journal articles analyzing some historical instances of irrigation. My notes and some thoughts are shared below. The first article [https://doi.org/10.3406/rbph.2013.8411] was "Rome and Agriculture in Africa Proconsularis: Land and Hydraulic Development" by Arbia Hilali in Revue

Book

Sand and Soil

This post contains reviews of a couple of books I've read recently. They relate to a similar theme as the previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/images-of-the-anthropocene/]—how people are reshaping the earth. About the Books Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520272903/dirt]

Museums

Four Maritime Museums

In my posts about travelling to Copenhagen [https://danbscott.ghost.io/five-days-in-denmark/] , Amsterdam [https://danbscott.ghost.io/noord-holland/], and Rotterdam [https://danbscott.ghost.io/zuid-holland/], I mentioned that I'd be discussing some maritime museums I visited in a separate post. This is that post. Introduction Seafaring has been

Travel

Noord-Holland

After Denmark [https://danbscott.ghost.io/five-days-in-denmark/], I travelled to the Netherlands, where I spent some time around Amsterdam and Rotterdam. In this post I'll share about what I did in the Amsterdam area; I plan to feature the Rotterdam area in my next post. Amsterdam flourished during

Book

Pirates and Vikings

This post contains 2.1 book reviews. The two books are The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson and The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings by Lars Brownworth. The extra 10 percent is two chapters from David Friedman's book Legal Systems

History

Steppe Cycle

This post is a review of Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa. The chapters have different authors and mostly stand on their own; the editor of the whole volume is Alan Mikhail [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/water-on-sand-9780199768660?cc=ca&lang=en&

Bible

St. Paul

I intended to have this post written shortly after Easter, but April has been a really busy month so far (and looks to continue as such) so I didn't get to it until now. Next post, I plan to return to my series on Seven Languages in Seven

Book

Salt makes you Thirst

This post contains reviews of a couple of history books that I read this fall: Salt and Thirst. The former is about salt as an ingredient, preservative, and commodity; the latter is about approaches to water management in various ancient societies. Salt Salt: A World History [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

Museums

Ottawa Museum Crawl

At the end of last week, I had a business meeting in the Ottawa area. I decided to stay for the weekend since it was a good opportunity to visit our nation's capital during Canada's 150th [https://danbscott.ghost.io/150th/] anniversary. On Saturday, I went

Board Games

Storytelling Outside the Box

This post comprises a board game review and an interactive map I made, joined by the common theme of non-traditional storytelling. Rogues to Riches is a story-telling board game, created by Sam Fraser [http://growgiantgames.com/] in Halifax [http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2014/08/07/rogues-to-riches-for-halifax-board-game-developer.html] . I

History

Wabanaki

On Saturday, I visited a new exhibit that had opened up at a local museum. I also had to travel to Truro, NS for my job and visited a museum there on Sunday. Note that I have a busy couple of weeks coming up, so I'm not planning

Personal

Henry Ketchum

A week ago, I was privileged to attend a formal dinner; it seemed like a fitting topic to write a post about. When I graduated from UNB, in 2008, I won the Ketchum medal [https://lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ketchum/ketchum_medal.html] (awarded to the top graduating student

Travel

UNESCO Sites

Last week, I was in the town of Lunenburg [http://www.explorelunenburg.ca/town-map.html], Nova Scotia. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so I thought it would be a good time to make a list of UNESCO sites that I've been to, and others that I

Brazil

grãos de café

My previous post was about my experiences in Brazil [https://danbscott.ghost.io/cana-de-acucar/]; this post is about some things I learned about the history and culture of that country. Before I went to Brazil, I took a short, free, online course about its history. The course was called Brazil

History

Putting the "Sea" in Civilization

This post is about a book I finished reading recently. Compared to many of the book reviews I've written, this one took longer to read but the review is maybe a bit shorter. The Sea & Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine [http://lincolnpaine.

History

From the First Caliphs to the First World War

I wanted to understand the history of the Middle East better, so I made the following timelines. Hopefully some readers will find them informative, too. Introduction If you turn on the news, you can see ancient cities like Aleppo, Sana'a, and Mosul [https://ricochet.com/381637/the-history-of-mosul/] being

History

Friars black, white, and grey

I was inspired to learn more about the history of religious orders after visiting an abbey in Scotland [https://danbscott.ghost.io/highlights-from-scotland-2014/] and while planning a trip to France [https://danbscott.ghost.io/follow-the-red-brick-canal/]. I read a book called The Lord as Their Portion: The Story of the Religious

Art

Les Musées de Paris

A month ago, I was in the middle of a two-week trip to France. I had a great time there, and plan to write a series of posts about it, starting with this one about my time in Paris. Museums weren't the only thing I saw in Paris,

Professional

WEFTEC 2015

Following close on the heels of my vacation [https://danbscott.ghost.io/oregon-trail/] to the Pacific [https://danbscott.ghost.io/the-rains-of-quinault/] Northwest [https://danbscott.ghost.io/seattle-trip-2015/], I went on a business trip that included attending the WEFTEC [http://www.weftec.org/] wastewater treatment conference in Chicago (I also attended

New Brunswick

Rebuild Fort Nashwaak

This post is about Fort Nashwaak [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Nashwaak], and an idea (I can't call it a plan, as I'm not in a position to make it happen, but if anyone who is reads this, feel free to run with it) to

History

The Americas Before 1492

This post took a couple of weeks to research and put together. I hope it was worth the wait. It is a review of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann [http://charlesmann.org/]. Well, it's not so much a review as it