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Re: First question's quote: ho-hum? Myth making is a stab at relativists - namely Herodotus and Irving. Post modernists don't make up stuff :P

Re: First question's quote: ho-hum? I studied Clendinnen. I *know* she's a post modernist. She said there were 'usable truths' - the empiricist belives there is one, absolute truth.

Re: First question's quote: ho-hum? I wouldn't call her Marxist :/ She doesn't have an 'elitist' style either, most historians show their views like that. And I fail to see how elitism has anything to do with empiricism, unless you're talking specifically about Elton, but that's just silly...

Re: First question's quote: ho-hum? Clendinnen is post modernist.

Re: wow, possibly the easiest thing ive done I knew Clendinnen was a post modernist, and was going to use her in the essay anyway, I wasn't surprised they used her for the source. I quoted her outside the source as well, from The Boyer Lectures.

Re: wow, possibly the easiest thing ive done Uhm! dood, I really hope you talked about the debate you did in class and not your project. And, because you're obviously incapable of using grammar, I think you're probably going to fail anyway. And anyone who talked about fish and said it wasn't...

Re: Fish? In saying that though, I pretty much did refer to it. More, they chose their facts, instead of chose what to not include.

Re: Fish? That selection/omission of sources is a good point, I didn't think of that because I was trying to seperate Carr from the historians essay.

Re: Fish? You mean to say the exam wasn't about fish?!

I second that motion. The exam was NOT easy. My hand almost died, and...! apart from WWI, India, and the first personality question that was an awful exam. And India was still a bit hard.

I should have done the non-Tet question. But yah, I talked about the US and Tet as well, probably too much.

I think the Indochina Tet question was really hard, I know Tet well but from an American perspective, not a North Vietnam perspective. And the second personality question didn't suit Jinnah very well. Or maybe I just didn't know enough historians. It seems like a history extension question in a...