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  • March 11, 2010 at 11:56 pm #17714 Reply
    DonaldBaker
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    Appleby is an Economic Determinist.  That's her only downfall, but she is a copious researcher, and her survey books are very good.

    March 11, 2010 at 11:57 pm #17715 Reply
    willyD
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    YUP–I was informed and entertained

    March 12, 2010 at 1:32 am #17716 Reply
    DonaldBaker
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    YUP--I was informed and entertained

    That's allowable in a survey level book.  On a side note, I have read some of her journal responses to J.G.A. Pocock (her arch nemesis), and she can be very snide sometimes, but her intellectual prowess is without question.  Of course her debates with Pocock were to build up her own academic name by picking a fight with a more established historian, but that's part of the game too.

    March 12, 2010 at 1:36 am #17717 Reply
    willyD
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    I do not know of Mr. Pocock–time to dust off the research skills–thanksWillyD

    March 12, 2010 at 1:49 am #17718 Reply
    DonaldBaker
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    Google “The Machiavellian Moment.”

    March 12, 2010 at 2:04 am #17719 Reply
    willyD
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    OH I'm off to Google in the evening time while my wife watches TVIf the stuff is good I promise this--its the last of me she'll see(sung to the tune of an old IRA song  The Merry ............ (forgot).

    January 24, 2011 at 10:22 am #17720 Reply
    Phidippides
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    The show was based on the book and it was quite great to watch!!!

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