History Today, September 1st, 2002
Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin Profile Books 199pp 15 [pounds sterling] ISBN 18197 400 0
Throwing Fire Projectile Technology Through History Alfred W. Crosby Cambridge University Press 199pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 521 79158 8
HISTORIANS RENDER THE OPAQUE TRANSPARENT and the transparent opaque. These two books by distinguished scholars have achieved both--helping us see what we have ignored and to look past appearances; but like different glasses, they give strikingly different effects.
Glass is not the only transparent material, but it may have been the most important. That, perhap...
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