Joyce E Chaplin
Professor of Early American History, Harvard University
Joyce E Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Her latest book is Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (2012).
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Progress and modernity
Is greatness finite?
The world feels caught between infinite possibility and limited resources. Thomas More and T R Malthus can help
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History of technology
The hand-held’s tale
For centuries, the powerful would never hold anything useful for themselves. How did devices become universal luxuries?
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