Thoughts on Literacy and Modernity...

My essay “From Memory to Innovation: The Vowel Revolution in the Making of the Modern Mind” was recently published in The Hedgehog Review and is now available online. It's adapted from the book I'm writing about the impact of the alphabet.

For links to this essay and other pieces of mine, click on the “Articles” button.

 

A Brief History of History

A Brief History of History

Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past

The Lyons Press
$27.95 hardcover (352p)
ISBN 978-1-59921-122-0


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Sailing from Byzantium

Sailing from Byzantium

How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

Delacorte, $22 hardcover (368p)
ISBN 0-553-80381-6

Delta, $14 paperback (368p)
ISBN 0-553-38273-0

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