For the newest little story by Elizabeth Sanders (historian of liquids), head over to The Elizabeths and check out The History of Wine. This one is a sweet, soft story about the simplicity and deliciousness of springtime. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Wine: A Little Story
The newest history by Elizabeth Turvey (historian of flame) is now available at The Elizabeths. It is a story of life and death and love and loss and two tiny phoenixes, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Candles. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Candles: A Little Story
The newest history by Elizabeth Turvey (historian of flame) is now available at The Elizabeths. You can find it by heading over to The History of Lightning. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Lightning: A Little Story
Springtime at The Elizabeths is a time for love stories. The newest history by Elizabeth Sanders (historian of liquid) is now available. You can find it by heading over to The History of Rain. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Rain: A Little Story
The newest story by Elizabeth Woodfall (historian of wind) is now available, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Shivers. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Shivers: A Little Story
The newest little story from The Elizabeths, a fiction experiment in conjectural early modern history, is now up on the site. This is the first story by Elizabeth Turvey, historian of flame. You can read it by clicking over to “The History of Ashes.” For more on the project, check this out. Continue reading The History of Ashes: A Little Story
A new post in the “Translating Recipes” series just went up on The Recipes Project. This one is a further exploration of the power of between-ness and Manchu medical recipes. It’s part 2 of 3, and you can check it out by heading over here. Continue reading Translating Recipes: Between, Pt. 2
The new edited volume by Francesca Bray, Peter Coclanis, Edda Fields-Black, and Dagmar Schaefer is a wonderfully interdisciplinary global history of rice, rooted in specific local cases, that spans 15 chapters written by specialists in the histories of Africa, the Americas, and several regions of Asia. Rice: Global Networks and New Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2015) creates a conversation among regional and disciplinary modes of studying and narrating rice histories that have often been conducted … Continue reading Rice: An Interview
It’s time to meet the final historian of The Elizabeths – Elizabeth Rively, the historian of burial, is now on the project site. Her histories are coming soon, but in the meantime you can learn about her (and her worms) by checking out the first part of her story: The Decomposer. Continue reading Elizabeth Rively (Historian of Burial), Pt. 1: The Decomposer
Meet Elizabeth Turvey, historian of flame. Before reading her first stories, learn a little bit about her and her particular approach to material history by heading over to the the first part of her life history, 1. An Art of Conversion. For more on the Elizabeths project in conjectural early modern historiography, check this out. Continue reading Elizabeth Turvey (Historian of Flame), Pt. 1: An Art of Conversion
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