Salient fact about Himmelfarb is that she's an intellectual historian, not a social historian. Interest in "idea of poverty" not the reality
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Reading Himmelfarb, you learn about how Burke, Hannah More, etc. thought about poverty -- very different than how poverty actually worked.
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@jnthnwwlsn I had that thought when I was composing tweet.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@root_e Himmelfarb takes a largely positive view of More.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@root_e Well, she's no Thompson or Hobsbawm, but can be good. I like her Darwin book quite a bit.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@TomSugrue Gee I wonder who should write it? -
@haroldpollack@TomSugrue I'm thinking about it, but might try to get a scholar of Victorian England.
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@HeerJeet@TomSugrue Edward Banfield and James Q Wilson were even more important peddlers of such perniciousness, no? -
@mkazin@TomSugrue There's a definite constellation of right-wing thinkers but Himmelfarb especially important in recent years.
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