Tangentially, has anyone read Keay's China history, and would you recommend it to a lay reader?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Aadisht Khanna <aadisht.gro...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Indrajit Gupta <bonoba...@yahoo.co.in > >wrote: > > > > > Dalrymple as historian? > > > > Well, perhaps, in the sense that Barbara Tuchman was an historian, or > Alan > > Bullock was an historian. > > > > There was a dividing line between historians and writers of popular > > historical pieces. Admittedly it is disappearing very fast now. Even so, > > Dalrymple's work is not to be considered as history. > > > > So noted. :) But though Keay and Dalrymple are on opposite sides of the > line, they are not too far from each other as readability and popular > appeal > go. > > > -- > Aadisht Khanna > Address for mailing lists: aadisht.gro...@gmail.com > Personal address: aadi...@aadisht.net > -- roswitha.tumblr.com
