In a message dated 2/23/01 10:07:48 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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> Luis-
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Hi,

Just a couple comments, here.  My name is Teri, Luis refers to the speaker of
the quote in my sig line.  Would not want to receive credit wrongly. :->

Also, I apologize if I misconstrued your meaning.  That's what I get for
reading email late at night after a sleep deprived week.  I enjoyed the book
as well, and, like you and your students found it thought provoking.  My
quibble was with his use of evidence.  In the case of the site which he lists
in his book that I work at (paid, BTW, not a docent), he uses one
questionable citation to further his assertion and entirely disregards the
substantial amount of evidence which states the other side of the case.  My
other quibble is that I find him to be very ready to lay modern social mores
on the beliefs of other periods.  You CANNOT expect an 19th century
industrialist to have the same beliefs about, say, racial issues, as a late
20th century, post civil rights era person.  Yet, this author seems to think
they should.

Teri Pope
Graduate Student
Public History, CSU, Sacramento
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                      --Luis Marden