tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post6058117343384287464..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Scarcity and Abundanceelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-27170088769559801302009-11-13T10:11:47.904-05:002009-11-13T10:11:47.904-05:00You make some excellent points, RJ! Thank you!You make some excellent points, RJ! Thank you!elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-24109398986790191802009-11-13T02:48:20.408-05:002009-11-13T02:48:20.408-05:00Hmmmm, there's plenty of historiographical mat...Hmmmm, there's plenty of historiographical material out there which has never made it into digital form at all. I suspect this is especially true in non-English-speaking countries of Europe. <br /><br />We Anglos tend to assume that the whole of Western Civ. has become as "wired" as we are. But in Europe (even in the Europe of 2009), laptops, iPhones, etc., tend to be rather rare - and cybercafes, conversely, rather common - by American standards (if only because electronics and electrical power supplies in general are more expensive in Europe than in the States).<br /><br />Consult (in particular) the catalog of any major European library - easy enough to do via the Internet now - and over and over again, one finds early and mid-20th-century books which have simply disappeared from the public consciousness, purely because nobody has (thus far) been interested enough in them to make them, or even parts of them, available online. The "pre-1950 books" sections of such catalogs can be, and usually are, quite a revelation. I'm reminded, by this revelation, of A. J. P. Taylor's witty half-truth: "All the secrets are already in print."R Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17624645479033609279noreply@blogger.com