“For two centuries from the 1560s Spain’s Manila galleons sailed the long way,from Manila to Acapulco, Mexico, missing the Golden Gate" —David Reid
"In the emergent West of the 11th and 12th centuries, and especially in Byzantium, its most civilized part, there was nothing but reversals of fortune."—David Reid
"The Postwar begins by confounding 'conventional wisdom.' From the New York intellectuals to the Republican politicos all had something to rue." —David Reid
"Constantinople’s quarrelsome, riotous, and enterprising citizenry prospered behind huge, apparently impregnable walls."
"Riotous and dissolute, the millennial Romans lived amid surroundings for which the word “surreal” might have been invented."
David Reid, author of The Brazen Age, with Part 1 of his history according to historians.