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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 300000" data-attributes="member: 5724">historically accurate"Well, Daniel, what I mean by Essential Historical Narrative--is are the facts of history accurate? Are the events and the people, and the numbers and reasoning behind these larger historical movements and trends accurate?--as opposed to debate over anecdote, de, du, des, and the entymology of the term Infantry. None of those aspects of minutae are relevant to the essential historical narrative. "there is no way for us to check for ourselves to see if it is accurate if he does not list his sources.if he choses to use descriptive word to describe one group that can just as easily be used to describe a second, which he doesn't use that word to describe, that is not history.  thats politics, which i think you'll agree with me on.calling the natives savages may be accurate, but never calling the people who decided it was ok to take all of their land savages is a political/idialogical choice, not a historical choice.  So please don't present this book as a "history."  It may be about history, but its not history.  Its about a persons political view extended througout history.I can tell you hate revisionists.  Why?  Do you hate history or do you hate their political bias on history but dont mind a different politica bias? personally i would consider the false entymology for the word infanty enough to question the other basic assumptions the author is making as to what is and is not a reliable source of information.i beg of you, please, at least agree with me on this one.  if a man told you he had researched the word "marine"  and it didnt have this entymology: (middle English, from Latin marinus, from mare sea; akin to Old English mere sea, pool, Old High German meri sea, Old Church Slavonic morje)* , but that it came from the old english word marren, and you knew he was wrong, you wouldn't doubt his other research?  You woudn't feel the need to question his methodolgy, his scholorship?  And wouldn't you feel even a little bit more questionable about his work when he said he didn't have space to list his sources?joe b.*per webster on-line <a href="http://www.m-w.com/home.htm" target="_blank">http://www.m-w.com/home.htm</a></blockquote>

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