--- Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >Not his again. They certainly were in many ways. Why don't you read a book
> >like How the Irish Saved civilization.
>
> Just FYI this book has been criticized by professional historians pretty
> thoroughly. Its pop history.
>
Not all profesional historians agree on that. In fact I beleive it is only a
few very loud catholics who have a problem with that book. Since they are not
impartial, I don't trust their opinons. I saw a doc on it a year or two ago
and it got me to spend the time reading the book.
I know a lot of historians think that Diamond is way off the mark as well.
History is one of those feilds where polotics and opinion mean a lot more
than fact anyway.
There are some things you can know, and others that depend on who wrote the
history. I have first hand experience with this where many historians have
written that Native Americans had no writing and no history, and that just
was not the case.
For a long time custer was considered by history to have been very brave and
a good warior. As it turns out he wasn't.
You can't beleive everything you read, but you also can't allways trust the
"experts" when it comes to a topic like history. Especialy when so many of
them disagree.
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