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2. THE PUBLIC RELEVANCE OF HISTORICAL STUDIES: A REPLY TO DIRK MOSES
Article first published online: 12 SEP 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2005.00327.x
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WHITE, H. (2005), 2. THE PUBLIC RELEVANCE OF HISTORICAL STUDIES: A REPLY TO DIRK MOSES. History and Theory, 44: 333–338. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2005.00327.x
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- Issue published online: 12 SEP 2005
- Article first published online: 12 SEP 2005
ABSTRACT
I am grateful to Dirk Moses for taking the time to study my work so assiduously and to comment on it so perspicuously. His essay is eminently well-informed and even-handed, and I have little to add to or correct of his characterization of my many, long on-going, and admittedly flawed attempts to deconstruct modern historical discourse. He understands me well enough and I think that I understand his objections to my position(s). We do not disagree on matters of fact, I think, but we have different notions about the nature of historical discourse and the uses to which historical knowledge can properly be put.