His account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find
Margaret Drabble, Observer
Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology – perhaps one should say politics – of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic ...
Guardian
The value of the book lies in his massive and meticulous demonstration of how scholarly views of the past are moulded (and repeatedly modified) by the changing political environment in which scholars pass their live ...
London Review of Books
His account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find
Margaret Drabble, Observer
Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology – perhaps one should say politics – of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic ...
Guardian
The value of the book lies in his massive and meticulous demonstration of how scholarly views of the past are moulded (and repeatedly modified) by the changing political environment in which scholars pass their live ...
London Review of Books
His account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find
Margaret Drabble, Observer
Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology – perhaps one should say politics – of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic ...
Guardian
The value of the book lies in his massive and meticulous demonstration of how scholarly views of the past are moulded (and repeatedly modified) by the changing political environment in which scholars pass their live ...