The volume pictured here, C.K.C. – his book, chronicles the efforts of a little-known activist to establish international limitations on the opium trade. Charles Kittredge Crane (1881-1932) dedicated himself singly to this cause, which culminated in three League of Nations conventions held in Geneva: the first and second back-to-back in 1924 and 1925, and the third Read More
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“A sense of happiness stole over him”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Blackie, Fullerton & Co. was originally a bookselling firm founded in Glasgow in 1809 by John Blackie Sr., Archibald Fullerton, and William Somerville. They specialized in the sale of books in monthly or quarterly installments, mainly Read More
Examining “the Beat”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The arrival of the Beat Generation generated controversy, conversation, and in some cases literature; for some onlookers, though, it was mostly a source of opportunity. Hence Beatnik, which promises “an uncensored, unexpurgated exposé of the ‘Beat Generation’”, Read More
A Revere-d Colonial Cookbook
We don’t have the recipes that the Pilgrims used for the first Thanksgiving feast, but we can gain some insight about the food preparation practices of the Boston colonists of 150 years later, thanks to the survival of cookbooks like Susannah Carter’s The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook (1772), just the second cookbook printed Read More
Father of criminology
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Cesare Lombroso was an Italian physician and criminologist who founded the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso’s theory of anthropological criminology was a mix of the concepts of Social Darwinism, physiognomy, psychiatry, and degeneration theory. Essentially Read More