Thank you David Landes for your friendly phone call about our 'exchange'.
As per my offer, I am supplying you [ and ipso facto to them your]
e-mail addresses of [and to] the 4 nets that i know to be carrying my now
4,000 word essay about your book and Bill McNeill's review of the same in the
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS.
The 'lead' or 'organizing' net if any among them is H-world, whose
coordinators are Pat Manning in general and for 'book reviews' Jeff
Sommers, also cc'ed aboveat NEU in Boston. Just how they propose to
'coordinate' among these nets , which have some overlapping but mostly
different subscribers, is up to them; and i do not know what they can or
will do.
An example of this problem is that one person [Taylor] has already sent a
serious reply [supporting you as you will be glad to know] but on only
one of the nets, h-world as i recall].
If you and I wish to address these interventions by others, not to mention
our own, I hope that someone will figure out and implement a technical
way to facilitate that on all the nets.
I regret that I only today learned on the phone from you -
and i so inform these nets and their subscribers - that you David Landes
will be overseas for the next ten days and therefore until your
return largely or entirely out of touch with any discussion that may
develop. I am sorry therefore that these nets and I did not delay our
posting for a time that would have been more convenient to you.
That will also give me the opportunity [or is it excuse?] to delay any
possible answer of my own for a while and then to prepare, if any,
a consolidated response or two to all concerned.
Bill McNeill does not use e-mail. Therefore, if he wishes still to
participate, we would have to find some other way for him to do so.
In the meantime we can also wait for a reply from Robert Silver as to
whether he wishes to re-open the pages of the NYRB to any of us for this
discussion and/or perhaps some other medium will wish to take us on.
best regards and bon voyage
gunder frank
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Andre Gunder Frank
University of Toronto
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My home Page is at: http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch&curric/gunder.html
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