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================= ECONHIST.TEACH POSTING =================
Comment on this book review: I thought this seemed like some pretty
standard
"gender in history" writing, but the last sentence grabbed by attention.
> Clearly, we are living through one of those
>"contested" times and it remains to be seen whether, as Edith Sauer
>concludes, "[a] new consciousness has engendered a new history"
>(287), or whether gender history will prove to be one of the
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>passing historical styles, like cliometrics or psychohistory, that
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>have occasionally adorned Clio's body.
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I wonder if this is a common view of quantitative economic history by those
in other historical fields. Grouping cliometrics with psychohistory seems
inaccurate. Anyone else notice this yoking together? Maybe the transition
of much economic history from history departments to economics departments
over the last 30 or so years has left an impression with historians that
cliometrics has simply sailed off the face of the earth.
John Murray
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