Talk:Gertrude Himmelfarb

message: The following paragraph keeps on getting deleted by the user known as Kolkhoz : 
"Himmelfarb is a leading defender of traditional historical methods and practices. Himmmelfarb has been sharply critical of those who seek to combine history with other discplines like psychology, writing that too of the resulting work was based on dubious and unverifiable speculation like the claim that Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism was due to alleged anger over the death of his mother while being treated by the Jewish doctor Dr. Bloch (this theory, which first appeaered in the 1970s has been widely discredited by the discovery of a profuse thank-you note for the care of his mother written by Hitler to Dr. Bloch in 1909)Himmelfarb, Gertrude The New History and the Old, Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987 pages 36-38.. Likewise, Himmelfarb has argued that the methods of Robert Fogel cannot properly explain the past, and argued that to understand American slavery is a moral question that cannot be reduced to number-crunchingHimmelfarb, Gertrude The New History and the Old, Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987 page 43.. Himmelfarb has contended that those who place a greater value on social history as opposed to political history are degrading the historical profession by leaving out the crucial factor of politics to understanding the past.Himmelfarb, Gertrude The New History and the Old, Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987 pages 18-21.. Himmelfarb has praised Sir Geoffrey Elton for making the claim that political history is the more important type of history as politics represents the endeavor of a people to create a rational organziation for themselvesHimmelfarb, Gertrude The New History and the Old, Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987 pages 19-20.. Himmelfarb supports the view that Britain become the world's "first industrial nation" in the 18th century not only because of economic considerations, but primarily of a better political organziation than the other nations of EuropeHimmelfarb, Gertrude The New History and the Old, Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987 page 138.. As part of her attack against the claims of the primacy of social history, Himmelfarb maintains that social historians like Lawrence Stone were reducing history to a series of isolated "moments" with no explanatory narrative structure.Himmelfarb, Gertrude The New History and the Old, Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987 pages 96-97.. As part of her defence of traditional history, Himmelfarb argues that Marxist historians were gulity of subjecting history to their political biases with no empirical basis.Himmelfarb, Gertrude The New History and the Old, Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987 pages 88-89.."
Kolkhoz claims that this is "fringe exposition unrelated to Himmelfarb's life work", but given that this summary is from a book written by Himmelfarb, namely The New History and the Old, I do not understand how this be reasonable described as as "fringe exposition unrelated to Himmelfarb's life work"? Since when have books by the subject of the article been a "fringe exposition unrelated..." unrelated to the "life work" of the subject? By the same logic, one could delete a summary of Oliver Twist from the Charles Dickens under the grounds that it is a "fringe exposition unrelated to Dicken's life work"?  A most misleading edit summary to say the least!--A.S. Brown (talk) 19:18, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerning User Kolkhoz's Edits

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 02:54, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
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