An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Here's where we share links to news stories, updates, and announcements of interest to Feeding the Elephant readers.
Libraries & Librarianship
A (more or less) weekly feature with a roundup of articles and other materials of interest to scholars of business and economic history.
For anybody whose resolution in 2021 is was to get organized, I present a history of the tabbed file folder and the vertical filing cabinet, and their role in the growth of corporate capitalism.
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 04 Jan 2021 and 11 Jan 2021.
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Aiala Levy:
Navitski, Rielle. Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 344 pp. $38.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-6975-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53428
These past few weeks in the Twittersphere, Julia Gaffield explains how Haiti was the first nation to permanently ban slavery and why this matters today in her article published by The Washington Post. Read it here.
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 28 Dec 2020 and 04 Jan 2021.
Hello everyone, and Happy New Year! Welcome to this month's resource recommendation roundup. If you have any suggestions for next month, feel free to email me at jmbrabble@vt.edu!
Podcasts of Interest to Latin Americanists to January 1
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate – Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan
H-Nutrition dishes up the latest nutrition news. Enjoy!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/dining/dietitian-diversity.html
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 21 Dec 2020 and 28 Dec 2020.
Reviewed for H-War by Luke Truxal:
Rems, Alan. South Pacific Cauldron: World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds. Washington, DC: Naval Institute Press, 2014. 312 pp. $38.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-471-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42089
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 14 Dec 2020 and 21 Dec 2020.
