Critical Reading Quotes

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

Justine Larbalestier

Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes, pace, and plot. For this reason, the division of history into periods always carries an ideological load, and it is a methodological imperative to approach questions of broad historical periodization with this in mind.