"Precisely because they are so fickle, opportunistic and superficial in their attitude to speculation, historians seem to change popular theories often, treating them not as foundations to be built on, but as seasonal outfits to clothe the facts they have so assiduously gathered."
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Samuel Moyn
Please don’t say that history should aim to be above the battle. History is always both political and theoretical, even if in a bad way most of the time. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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