Sunday, April 03, 2005
am/or
'printing did not really develop in [North] America during the eighteenth century until printers discovered a new source of income--the newspaper'
-Febvre and Martin, The Coming of the Book, 1976
Already in the 1550's, 10% of Lisbon's population were slaves; by 1800 there were close to a million slaves among the 2,500,000 or so inhabitants of Portugal's Brazil.
-Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 1983
