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Modern Historiography
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Modern Historiographyby M. Bentley
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful: a poorly written rough draft of a book, July 16, 2005 Reviewer:wordeater "wordeater" - This is an awful book from start to finish. It contains little historiography and is poorly written. Bentley spends a lot of space on the universities attended by historians and other useless details and not enough space explaining their ideas. Bentely uses foreign phrases and block quotes on EVERY single page. At times he combines both beasts by having block quotes in a foreign language WITHOUT giving a translation. But the last item may be preferable since Bentley is at his worst in his own language. The students in my class are always complaining about the writing. The professor is constantly apologizing for it. Maybe Bentley will do the same someday by revising this book. While this book is not a first draft, it is not a final one either. Good bye and good luck - or as Bentley would say, au revior and in bocca al lupo
Choice - July/August '99
"astonishing: a lucid, enlightening, often witty, convincing, and pithy survey of the field since the Enlightenment."
Allan Megill, University of Virginia
"stimulating to read."
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