Studying the history of ideas can engender a jaundiced perspective on contemporary academic writing. Weariness can arise from a recognition that each generation is inventing the wheel. To give but one example, every generation since the 1870s seems to have proclaimed that the Anglo-Saxons rather interbred with than ethnically cleansed the older settlers of the British Isles, and […]
Published on August 25, 2016 22:09