February 10, 2016
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Years: Striking Images From Richard W. Bulliet's THE WHEEL
“Tracking the wheel from 4000 B.C.E to the present, Bulliet argues that the traditional myth falsifies history by melding three kinds of wheel into one. Rather than a “viral” tool that changed the world, different wheels serviced particular niches–mine-cars, children’s...