[redgolum]

Bostom is an epidemiologist living in Providence, Rhode Island. But perhaps this very distance from the academic world of the oriental and Islamic studies scholars leaves him more free from the taboos that gag many of these.

So the work will be completely ignored since it did not come from one of the anointed elite. That is why if you want to seriously study history, you have a much better time if you focus on old books.

Harold Lamb's books on the Crusade are great.

[jjmcgo]

Psychology is similar to history. If you want real science, not PC-driven drivel, go to the old texts.

[livius]

They hated Barbara Erenreich (A Distant Mirror) and the author (whose name I don´t remember) who wrote A Midwife´s Tale, a brilliant piece of research into women´s lives in the early US because these writers were not part of the annointed elite. Furthermore - gasp! - these writers wrote books that were interesting and were actually bought by somebody other than the university libraries that have to purchase this kind of thing.