----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Like Kevin Quinn I was troubled by the ready acceptance by David Colander, Barkley Rosser, and others of a thick/thin dichotomy. I don't know whether Roy Weintraub believes that internalist history is synonymous with "thin" history, although he has stigmatized both. But I certainly do not believe that internalist history needs to be thin in any ordinary language meaning of the term and I would resist using it as a bit of technical jargon meaning "not thick in Roy's sense," as it comes with so much pejorative baggage -- after all, who wants to write thin history (just like who is anti-life or anti-choice). What is more, the idea that internalist history is an extended literature survey of old literature fails to do justice to the genre. Kevin Hoover ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]