Don’t get mad; get historiographical
The New York Times preview of Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms has prompted a flurry of responses by people who haven’t yet read the book. Hrrmrmrmrm… Obviously, it’s touched a nerve among historians, perhaps moreso than the flurry responding to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel. Both books are orthogonal looks at the “rise […]