Historical evidence and argument

✍ Scribed by David P. Henige

Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 340
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page xi)
Declaiming the Endtime (page 1)
Traveling Hopefully (page 5)
The Anxieties of Ambiguity (page 15)
Unraveling Gordian Knots (page 29)
When Too Much Is Not Enough (page 42)
The Many Births of Frank Lloyd Wright (page 58)
Destroying in Order to Save (page 65)
Speaking of History (page 77)
Sensing Incongruity (page 91)
Poisoned Chalices (page 102)
Scotching the Myth-Making Machine (page 117)
Irreconcilable Differences (page 125)
"We're Changing Everything...Again" (page 134)
Rule Life vs Real Life (page 148)
When Might Makes Wrong (page 161)
Six Hundred Barrels of Plaster of Paris (page 173)
Millions of Moving Parts (page 186)
He Says, She Says (page 200)
Bringing Texts Up to Code (page 211)
Gaining and Providing Access (page 223)
Hearing a White Horse Coming (page 236)
Notes (page 245)
Bibliography (page 279)
Index (page 317)

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