Destiny Disrupted

364 NOTES

CHAPTER II
I. See C. M. Woolger, "Food and Taste in Europe in the Middle Ages," pp.
175-177 in Food: The History ofTaste, edited by Paul Freedman, (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2007).

2. Peter Russel, Prince Henry the Navigator (London: Hispanic and Luso Brazilian
   Council, 1960).


3. Daileader, Lecture 15, Early Middle Ages (Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching
   Company, 2004).

CHAPTER 12

1. Great Britain was born after King James VI of Scotland inherited the crown of
   England. He and his successors held both crowns separately until the Act of Union in


2. Only after that date is it correct to speak of "the British."


3. For a detailed inside picture of life in the Ottoman harem, see Alev Croutier's
   Harem: The World Behind the Veil (New York: Abbeville Press, 1989), especially pp.
   35-38, 103-105, 139-140.


4. James Gelvin points out these global interconnections in The Modern Middle
   East. See pp. 55-60.


5. Nick Robbins, "Loot: In Search of the East India Company," an article written
   for openDemocracy.net in 2003. Find it at http://www.opendemocracy.net/theme_
   7 -corporations/ article_904.jsp.


6. Gelvin, pp. 84-86.


7. As reported by Frederick Cooper, deputy commissioner of Amritsar, in a dis-
   patch excerpted by Reza Asian, No god but God (New York, Random House, 2006),
   pp. 220-222.


8. Jamil Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period. (Cambridge:
   Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 249-257.

CHAPTER 13
I. Ernest Renan, "La Reforme intellectuelle et morale" (Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1929).

2. Hamid Dabashi, Iran: A People Interrupted (New York: New Press, 2007), pp.
   58-59.

CHAPTER 14

1. Mark Elvin coins this phrase in Pattern of the Chinese Past (London: Eyre
   Methuen Ltd, 1973), which includes an analysis of why China failed to develop high-
   level technology in the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, when it had the prosperity
   to do so.


2. Dabashi, pp. 60-61.


3. Gelvin, p. 129.