…I mean its author, Eugen Weber. “Nothing is more concrete than history, nothing less interested in theories or in abstract ideas,” Dr. Weber wrote. “The great historians have fewer ideas about history than amateurs do; they merely have a way of ordering their facts to tell their story. It isn’t theories they look for, but [...]

…I mean its author, Eugen Weber. “Nothing is more concrete than history, nothing less interested in theories or in abstract ideas,” Dr. Weber wrote. “The great historians have fewer ideas about history than amateurs do; they merely have a way of ordering their facts to tell their story. It isn’t theories they look for, but [...]