History Cartier, Champlain, Laval, ... In my previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/les-villes-de-lhiver/], I mentioned that I'd share some of what I learned about the history of New France on my brief trip to Québec and Montréal a couple of weeks ago (supplemented with some Wikipedia reading). That's what you&
History Psalm 107 For this post, I wrote a bit of a Christmas meditation. For next week, I'm planning a Year in Review [https://danbscott.ghost.io/2014-year-in-review/] post. Merry Christmas to all of my readers. Psalm 107 [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+107&version=NLT] may not
History Whence Finance? This post is a review of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson. I got it from my favourite used bookstore: the Midtown Scholar [http://www.midtownscholar.com/] (pictured below) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Niall Ferguson [http://www.niallferguson.com/], a historian at Harvard, wrote
Yemen An Academic Look at the Hydraulic Hypothesis As promised in my review of Water: the Epic Struggle by Steven Solomon [https://danbscott.ghost.io/history-through-a-liquid-lens/], here is a more scholarly look at the hydraulic hypothesis. As I wrote before, "The hydraulic hypothesis says that large-scale irrigation works that supported the land-based empires of the ancient world
History A Demotivational Poster for May Day Today is May 1st, and I made a "demotivational"-style poster for the occasion. The LaTeX code (see below) can be easily modified for other posters of this style. % "Demotivational" poster template in LaTeX \documentclass[12 pt,portrait]{article} \usepackage{fullpage} \usepackage{url} \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
History History Through a Liquid Lens This post is a review of Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon (2010). To start with, I have some general comments on the book itself, and then I'll delve into some of the issues it covers. It's a long book,
Re-Published The Long March of the NB 104th This note was originally posted on Facebook for Remembrance Day 2012. It is about a story from Canadian military history that I find quite inspiring. These soldiers started their march 101 years ago this week. The 104th Regiment As I understand it, most of the regular forces on the Canadian
History A 'Riveting' Book on the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution is a period of history that has long fascinated me. Largely because of the technological developments and sense of potential, and also for the way that engineering and modern business were shaped during the era. William Rosen wrote The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story
New Brunswick A Quick Overview of New Brunswick History Last weekend I read the book New Brunswick: A Short History by Timothy Frink. It's a very quick read, but I still found it informative. Recently I was complaining with some friends about how history is taught in our schools and this book just drove home the point