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________________________________ From: Bernstein, Richard [mailto:Richard.Bernstein@nyls.edu] Sent: Fri 1/16/2009 3:18 PM To: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list Subject: RE: Query: "History is a debate" quote The quotation is from the end of the introduction to Pieter Geyl's NAPOLEON: FOR AND AGAINST: "History is an argument without end." R. B. Bernstein * Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School, 57 Worth Street, New York, NY 10013-2960 * Author, Thomas Jefferson (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003; pbk, 2005) * Author, The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (Oxford Univ. Press, spring 2009) * Editor, Newsletter, American Society for Legal History * Member, Editorial Board, H-LAW http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~law/ <https://owa.nyls.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~law/> * Director of Online Operations, Heights Books, Inc., 109 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 * rbernstein@nyls.edu / rbbernstein@gmail.com / heightsbooks@aol.com ________________________________ From: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list on behalf of Spivack, Carla Sent: Fri 1/16/2009 3:14 PM To: H-LAW@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: Query: "History is a debate" quote Carla Spivack, J.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Law Oklahoma City University School of Law ph: (405) 208-5370 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Hoffer [mailto:pchoffer@uga.edu] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:09 PM To: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list Subject: Re: Query: "History is a debate" quote Quote usually attributed to the Dutch historian Pieter Geyl, whose Debates with Historians used to be standard reading for history grad students. The specific words seem to come from a translation of Geyl's Napoleon: for and against (1949), but I can't find the quote myself. Best, Peter Charles Hoffer Distinguished Research Professor Department of History University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602
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