Want to read: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel 📚
@kimberlyhirsh Coincidentally (? — who knows what far-ranging reading librarians do?), she was hosted for guest-blogging last week at the Volokh Conspiracy blog:
- Virginia Postrel Guest-Blogging About the History of Textiles – Reason.com
- The History of Textiles Is the History of Human Ingenuity – Reason.com
- Four Thousand Years Ago, Textile Traders Invented a Basic Social Technology: Mass Literacy – Reason.com
- When Cloth Was Money, Literally – Reason.com
- Pen-and-Paper Arithmetic Is Useful When You’re Selling Textiles – Reason.com
- How Bills of Exchange Went from a Way to Bring Textile Proceeds Home to the “Foundation of Modern Commercial Banking” – Reason.com
- Virginia Postrel’s Videos Related to Her The Fabric of Civilization Book – Reason.com