The Powerpoint from my talk in Moscow (co-sponsored by cato.ru and polit.ru) is available in English here. I should have a Russian version soon, thanks to my hard working colleague Anna Krassinskaya. I should also post soon the Powerpoint presentations from my talks from Iraqi Kurdistan in English and in Kurdish soon, as well.
I’ll be out in Colorado this weekend to address the Leadership Program of the Rockies in Denver.
UPDATE: A transcript (in Russian), with the slides mixed in, is now available for my Moscow talk.
Great job on the powerpoint! You’ve got a good handle on it. I might have added something on the Scottish enlightenment and a tag more on the AmRev (I do like Gary Nash’s new work on its “multicultural” nature), but you can’t do everything with time constraints.
Cheers!
Just a thought.
Just Ken
kgregglv@cox.net
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/
Thanks. Both are good points. The presentation was in Moscow to a Russian audience, and I wanted to avoid too much stress on the Anglo-Saxon (or, at least, English-speaking) contributions to liberalism. So much could have been included, but I had a limited time (and I was assigned a challenging topic, with three themes to work in — liberalism, globalization, and sovereignty).
It’s always frustrating deciding what to leave out as well as what to include in a lecture. I certainly feel for you in that regard. There have been times when I just begin to warm up after the first hour on talking about the history of liberty. Of course, for those who like to stay late into the wee hours of the night, it can be quite a treat. But it’s better to have the initial portion structured as a complete lecture in and of it self. O well.
The Nash book, “The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America” (NY: Viking, 2005. 512 pp.) is a book that you might want to pick up some time and sit down with at some time (plane flight, hotel room, etc.). He does a fine job in illustrating the “nonwhite” elements in the Americna Revolution. Not as marxist as Linebaugh and Rediker’s “The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic” (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. 433 pp.) (which I do recommend, by the way), but is quite broadening in following the revolutionary path of the period.
Just a thought.
Just Ken
kgregglv@cox.net
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/