The Poverty of Theory

September 2, 2004 | This article appeared in the September 20, 2004 edition of The Nation.

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Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.

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Linda Colley

Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton. Her most recent book is Captives: Britain...

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