Basically whomever it took it to its next technical step. The important thing when we are talking about tv is it the mechanical means of conveying information or is it the thing that is used that is it the content on the tv itself. I look at the question very often when i teach tv history, future tv and such which is ive come to defined television as debt which we see on the instrument which traditionally we have called television or whatever content is created that we view on any means whatsoever but it is still thought of as primarily, video primarily television communication. So we are still in the midst of inventing television as we speak. What began the discovery of the instrument in which we watch television . There are two forms of television, the original experiment where Experimental Television was the mechanical system and so the mechanical system that goes back to baird and he had a wonderful moment which he was showing his puppet, bill in a public demonstration and there wa
He is an affiliated professor in the Harvard Department of government, an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School and an honorary fellow of st. Catherines college in cambridge. His previous books include the ideological origins of the british empire, winner of the longman History Today book of the year award, the declaration of independence a global history, which was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year, and the history manifesto which was a new statesman book of the year. His new book, civil wars a history and ideas, examines the history of the very notion of civil war from its roots in republican rome to the conflicts that have roiled the global south for the past two decades. Questions of what makes a conflict not only a war, but a civil war rather than a foreign war or a revolution, are intensely political and depend on which warrior you ask. Shifting definitions of the term have also determined foreign policy. Do outside powers choose to arm one side or the other
Basically whomever it took it to its next technical step. The important thing when we are talking about tv is it the mechanical means of conveying information or is it the thing that is used that is it the content on the tv itself. I look at the question very often when i teach tv history, future tv and such which is ive come to defined television as debt which we see on the instrument which traditionally we have called television or whatever content is created that we view on any means whatsoever but it is still thought of as primarily, video primarily television communication. So we are still in the midst of inventing television as we speak. What began the discovery of the instrument in which we watch television . There are two forms of television, the original experiment where Experimental Television was the mechanical system and so the mechanical system that goes back to baird and he had a wonderful moment which he was showing his puppet, bill in a public demonstration and there wa
That all happens tonight on book tv. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone, thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. My name is davis shoulders, its our honor to just on behalf of staff its honor to welcome you here for this event for the brad snyder, foundations of american liberalism. I have a few housekeeping notes i want to cover right before we get started. If you will take this time to silence any cell phones or noisemaking devises, we dont have any unnecessary interruptions during the event. I will also mention that if youre a regular here, sometimes you know that we ask you to put up the chairs, we are going to have an event following this one, so after the event is over leave the chairs as we are. We are honored to have cspan book tv, comes out to many of our events. This is being recorded but as a part of that, we really like to have whenever you ask a question because theres going to be at the second half of the reading theres going to be time for questions and a
And former special assistant to george h. W. Bush doug weed in game of thorns. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. But the other bit of contribution that i think the book or i hope the book has is a discussion of the domestic cadaver trade. And this is the trafficking of deaded bodies. Ive traced medical school records, anatomy professors that were involved in this traffic, and they wrote letters back and forth to one another looking for the dead bodies of enslaved people or exhuming them from are graves. From greys. From graves. One of the pivotal quotes i have is a quote thats saying, you know, tell me how much it costs for a dead stiff nword, you know, one that you cant excuse me, do tell me what the cost of a dead, stiff n, one that doesnt smell Strong Enough to be nosed a mile off. And i trace this traffic and this trade and these bodies, and i look at the ways in which even after death ensl