[NEWS] Ten JSTOR Daily links (@jstor_daily)

[rfmcdonald]

JSTOR Daily is a quality source of links that can accumulate quickly.

• JSTOR Daily shares ten poems about travel.


• JSTOR Daily notes the decidedly mixed environmental legacies of missionaries.


• JSTOR Daily explains why, exactly, a landlord in the medieval world might ask for a rose at Christmas time as rent.


• JSTOR Daily explores the immersive cyclorama of the 19th century.


• JSTOR Daily notes how, with a canny emphasis on the prestige of their drink and their lineages, dealers of champagne were able to build lucrative empires.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the 17th century German painter of insects Maria Sibylla Merian, now at last gaining recognition.


• JSTOR Daily summarizes a paper that examines why the literal image of Nelson Mandela is so popular, is so iconic.


• JSTOR Daily notes that, alas, the balance of the evidence suggests alcohol is not good for people.


• JSTOR Daily looks at "story papers", the inexpensive 19th century periodicals carrying stories targeted at boys and young men which ended up changing both popular literature and gender identities.


• Alexandra Samuel at JSTOR Daily takes a look, after Rachel Giese, at the ways in which the Internet and Internet culture can lead to outbreaks of misogyny.