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If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

J. H. Hexter

J. H. Hexter

J. H. Hexter

Born: May 25, 1910

Died: December 8, 1996 (aged 86)

Bio: Jack H. Hexter was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography.

Known for:

On historians (1979)
The Judaeo-Christian tradition (1966)
The Traditions of the Western World (1967)
Reappraisals in history (1961)
More's Utopia: The Biography of an Idea (1952)

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