--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [These are some comments, assembled from several
> emails, by a lurker
> who wishes to remain anon.]
> Sorry to write so much -- the Hofstadter bashing by
> some of the
> younger historians drives me up the wall, since I
> think there is way
> too much social, cultural, "out group" history these
> days, not enough
> on elites, policy, the law. A lot of that literature
> also tries so
> hard to be sub-altern studies that it romanticizes
> its subjects on
> very thin evidence, which I find obnoxious.
Right on. It is nice to know that there is a like-mined soul lurking somwhere out there.
Wojtek
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