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“Economists agree about many things—contrary to popular opinion—but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought.”
So begins the first chapter of “Cultures Merging,” in which Eric Jones—one of the world’s leading economic historians—takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it.
“The Owl and the Nightingale,” one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming couplets, line by line and blow by blow.
In this engaging and energetic verse translation, Simon Armitage captures the verve and humor of this dramatic tale with all the cut and thrust of the original.
