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Review Articles WRITING TEXTBOOK HISTORY: TWO CURRENT EXAMPLES

The Journal of Asian studies, 1973-11, Vol.33 (1), p.87 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Association for Asian Studies, Inc. Nov 1973 ;ISSN: 0021-9118 ;EISSN: 1752-0401 ;CODEN: JASNBR

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  • Title:
    Review Articles WRITING TEXTBOOK HISTORY: TWO CURRENT EXAMPLES
  • Author: Mirsky, Jonathan
  • Subjects: Bibliographic literature ; Civilization ; Culture ; Historical text analysis ; Medical diagnosis ; Physicians ; Textbooks ; Tongue ; Traditions
  • Is Part Of: The Journal of Asian studies, 1973-11, Vol.33 (1), p.87
  • Description: "I know histhry isn't true, Hinnessy, because it ain't like what I see ivry day in Halstead Sthreet. If any wan comes along with a histhry iv Greece or Rome that'll show me th' people fightin', gettin' dhrunk, makin' love, gettin' married, owin' the grocery man and bein' without hard-coal, I'll believe they was a Greece or Rome, but not befure. Historyans is like doctors. They are always lookin' f'r symptoms. Those iv them that writes about their own times examines the tongue an' feels th' pulse an' makes a wrong diagnosis. Th' other kind iv histhry is a post-mortem examination.
  • Publisher: Ann Arbor: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0021-9118
    EISSN: 1752-0401
    CODEN: JASNBR
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
    ProQuest Central
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