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Episode 40: Were pirates really communists?

Sources!

http://www.kesterbrewin.com/2012/09/13/pirates-as-proto-marxists-and-why-this-shouldnt-give-you-a-red-alert/  

Edward Fox, 2013. ‘Piratical Schemes and Contracts’: Pirate Articles and their Society, 1660-1730. PhD Thesis. University of Exeter https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/14872/FoxE.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 

Marcus Rediker, 2004. Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age 

Captain Charles Johnson, 1724. The General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates 2nd ed.

Vol.1 (inc Blackbeard) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40580/40580-h/40580-h.htm 

Vol. 2 (inc Libertalia) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57005/57005-h/57005-h.htm 

Chris Land, 2007. Flying the black flag: Revolt, revolution and the social organization of piracy in the ‘golden age’, Management & Organizational History, 2:2, 169-192

Peter T. Leeson, 2007. An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization. The Journal of Political Economy 115 (6), 1049-1094

Benerson Little, 2005. The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730. 

Gabriel Kuhn, 2010. Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy. 

C.R. Pennell (ed), 2001. Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader. 

Marcus Rediker, 2001. The Seaman as Pirate: Plunder and Social Banditry at Sea in Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader. 

Marcus Rediker, ‘“Under the Banner of King Death”: The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716-1726’, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third series, 38 (1981), 203-227

 Crystal Williams, ‘Nascent Socialists or Resourceful Criminals? A Reconsideration of Transatlantic Piracy’, in Paul A. Gilje and William Pencak (eds). Pirates, Jack Tar, and Memory: New Directions in American Maritime History (Mystic, 2007) 31-50

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Episode 39: Queer Royals

Sources! 

Sources

Jeffry J. Iovannone. 2018. A Brief History of the LGBTQ Initialism. https://medium.com/queer-history-for-the-people/a-brief-history-of-the-lgbtq-initialism-e89db1cf06e3

Scott Bravmann. 1997. Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture and Difference. 

Clare Hayward, 2016. Queer Terminology:  LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality. http://notchesblog.com/2016/06/09/queer-terminology-lgbtq-histories-and-the-semantics-of-sexuality/

Rachel Moss 2015. Seeing Sodomy: An Interview with Robert Mills http://notchesblog.com/2015/07/02/seeing-sodomy-an-interview-with-robert-mills/

Umberto Grassi, 2016. Acts or Identities: Rethinking Foucault on Homosexuality. Cultural History 5 (2) 200-221.

 John D’Emilio, 1993.Capitalism and Gay Identity in The Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader ed. H. Abelove, M. A. Barele & D.M. Halperin. http://sites.middlebury.edu/sexandsociety/files/2015/01/DEmilio-Capitalism-and-Gay-Identity.pdf

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Episode 38: The Weird History of Gynecology

  • Steinberg, W., & Muntner, S. (1965). Maimonides’ views on gynecology and obstetrics. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 91(3), 443–448.

  • Soranus, Gynecology

  • Thierry, M. 1997. Vaginal speculum: the developmental history of a gynecologic instrument. Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg. 1997;59(1):13-8.

  • Monica Green. Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe Signs, Vol. 14, No. 2, Working Together in the Middle Ages: Perspectives on Women's Communities (Winter, 1989), pp. 434-473

  • Sandelowski, M. (2000). ‘This Most Dangerous Instrument Propriety, Power, and the Vaginal Speculum. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 29(1), 73–82.

  • Jennifer Stroud Rossmann 2008. Built to Spec? The vaginal speculum as a case study of inadequate design. Ambidextrous. https://dspace.lafayette.edu/bitstream/handle/10385/589/Rossmann-Ambidextrous-vol10-2008.pdf?sequence=1 

  • Jeffrey S. Sartin. 2004. J. Marion Sims, the Father of Gynecology: Hero or villain? Southern Medical Journal Vol. 97, Issue 5.

  • Rose Elveleth. 2014. Why No One Can Design a Better Speculum. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/why-no-one-can-design-a-better-speculum/382534/

  • Peter M. Dunn. 1999. The Chamberlen family (1560–1728) and obstetric forceps. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 81. 

  • Sukhera Sheikh, Inithan Ganesaratnam, and Haider Jan. 2013. The Birth of Forceps. JRSM Short Rep. Jul; 4(7): 1–4.

  • Lauren Dundes. 1987. The Evolution of Maternal Birthing Position. Public Health Then and Now. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.77.5.636

  • J. Patrick O'Leary. 2004. J. Marion Sims: a defense of the Father of Gynecology. Southern Medical Journal. Vol. 97, Issue 5.

  • Selim Kadioglu, Oya Ogenler and Ilter Uzel, 2017. A Classical Wooden Vaginal Speculum Mentioned in Old Medical Manuscripts. Arch. Iran. Med. 20(3) 193-195.



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Episodes 36 & 37: Chinese Dynasties, One by One

"The Dynasties Song"

This "dynasties song," sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques,"

can help students remember the major Chinese dynasties in chronological order.

Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han

Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han

Sui, Tang, Song

Sui, Tang, Song

Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic

Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

— Courtesy of the teachers on the College Board AP-World History Listserv

Asia for Educators http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/timelines/china_timeline.htm#Chinese%20History


Valerie Hansen, 2000. The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600. 


Ancient Chinese Mummy: Uncovering The Most Well-Preserved Mummy in China - The Lady of Dai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuJcSkx8Es


Patricia Buckley, 2005. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. 


Haiwang Yuan, 2010. This is China: The First 5,000 YEars.


Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbanks (1978-2002) The Cambridge History of China Vols 1-11. 



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Episode 35: Did anyone expect the Spanish Inquisition?

Sources

Lu Ann Homza, 2006. The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources.

Helen Rawlings, 2006. The Spanish Inquisition.

John Edwards, 1992. ‘Why The Spanish Inquisition?’ Studies in Church History 29, 221-236.

Henry Kamen, 2014. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. 4th Edition.

Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, 2011. A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition.

The Jewish Virtual Library. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-inquisition

Kimberly Lynne Hossain. 2007. Unravelling the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitorial Studies in the 21st Century. History COmpass 5(4), 1280-1293.

James Maxwell Anderson. 2002. Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisition. 

And of course https://youtu.be/JMMrL0LOon0 

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Episode 34: Was it better to be a hetaera than a wife in Athens?

Episode here: https://bit.ly/2RFN8zE 

Some sources here. A lot of the trials came from Demosthenes.  You can read Demosthenes Against Neaera here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Dem.+59+1&redirect=true and Isaeus on Alke here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0142%3aspeech%3d6 should you so wish. 

Allison Glazebrook. 2016. ‘Prostitutes, women, and gender in Ancient Greece’ in Women in Antiquity: Real women across the Ancient World, Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa.
Jayoung Che. 2017. Citizenship and the Social Position of Athenian Women in the Classical Age. A Prospect for Overcoming the Antithesis of Male and Female. Athens Journal of History 3 (2), 97-118.
Sarah B. Pomeroy. 1975. Goddess, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity.
David M. Schaps. 1998. What Was Free about a Free Athenian Woman? Transactions of the American Philological Association 128, 161-188
Rebecca Futo Kennedy, 2015. Elite Citizen Women and the Origins of Hetarai in Classical Athens, Helios 42 (1), 61-79.
Edward E. Cohen. 2016. ‘The Athenian Businesswoman’, in Women in Antiquity: Real women across the Ancient World, Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa.
Edward E. Cohen. 2016. Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex. 

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Episode 33: The Age of Airships

One correction: I said that the waterpark is in a 1920s airship hanger but actually it's from an attempted 1990s revival! Apologies and thank you to Numenius arquata for updating me!

Sources:

J. Duggan, H. Meyer. 2001. Airships in International Affairs 1890 - 1940 - legit the most boring book I’ve ever attempted to read.

Harold Dick, Douglas Robinson. 1985. The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg - written by two people who worked on the Hindenburg

Robert Hedin (ed). 1998. The Zeppelin Reader: Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age of Airships

Martin Van Creveld. 2011. The Age of Airpower

R.P. Hearne. 1910. Airships in Peace and War, 2nd edn.

Jeanne Marie Laskas. 2016. Helium Dreams: A new generation of airships is born. New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/a-new-generation-of-airships-is-born

Gregory K. H. Bryant 2010. A Very Brief History of Airships. Lightspeed http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a-very-brief-history-of-airships/

Ian Castle. 2008. London 1914-17: The Zeppelin Menace.

Graf Zeppelin’s Round the World Journey 1929 Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0sM5hMeqlo

British Pathe The Hindenburg Disaster explosion footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWHbpMVQ1U

Herbert Morrison’s Eyewitness Reporting on the Hindenburg Disaster as it happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXO7mdBcA48

Gizmodo. 31 Images from the Golden Age of Airships https://gizmodo.com/31-photos-from-the-golden-age-of-airships-when-zepplin-1376407382

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Episode 32: Chinese Tickle Torture?

https://martinifisher.com/2017/04/23/titillatio-a-brief-mythology-ancient-history-and-philosophy-of-tickling/ 
C.R. Harris 2013 'Tickling', in the Encyclopedia of Human Behaviour 2nd ed. - contains the amazing pretend robot tickling experiment. 
Racist tickle porn site: http://www.ticklingforum.com/archive/index.php/t-112908.html
Heinz Heger, 1994 The Men with the Pink Triangle.
Pictures of Death By 1000 Cuts and other info about actual tortures in China: https://www.chinasage.info/torture.htm
Some alleged examples of people being tickled to death/as a torture, most of which are nonense, but does include the Man Tickled Wife Mad text: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.multimedia.tk/viHVc2KzwZk/gOoVL6aEwJYJ
Maxim Korolkov, 2011 ‘Arguing about Law: Interrogation Procedure under the Qin and former Han Dynasties” Etudes Chinoises 30. - Chinese torture documentation
Jonathan Spence, 1998. The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds.
Nancy Park, 2008. Imperial Chinese Justice and the Law of Torture. Late Imperial China, 29 (2) 37-67.Nancy Park, 2008. Imperial Chinese Justice and the Law of Torture. Late Imperial China, 29 (2) 37-67.
D. Jones. The Function of China in Western Social and Political Thought.
James Williams, 1893. The Function of Torture on Roman Law II. Law Review 5th Series 64.
Gavin Yamey. Review of Torture:European Instruments of Torture and Capital Punishment from the Middle Ages to the Present. BMJ 11th August 2001. 

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Episode 31: Why did people drink so much beer in the middle ages?

A few books and articles I read for this one.

The main two were standard books on the history of beer and ale: 

Ian Hornsey, 2003, A History of Beer and Brewing. RSC 

Richard Unger, 2004, Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Then a few articles and books on specific aspects:

Charles Bamforth, 2004, Beer: Health and Nutrition. Blackwell had a lot on beer as a health food in the middle ages, and defences of beer. 

Franz Meussdoerffer, 2009, A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing, in Handbook of Brewing: Processes, Technology, Markets, ed. HM Ersslinger.

Eline Poelmans and Johan Swinnen, A Brief Economic History of Beer in The Economics of Beer, ed. JFM Swinnen. 

This is Tofi Kerthjalfadsson's 1998 experiments in making authentic medieval beer while trying to to give himeself lead poisoning (wimp).  https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/medieval_english_ale.html

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