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Earlier this week, a cool Twitter thread happened, started by @_Varsha_Venkat’s query to historians about any pivotal, paradigm-shifting (for them) books they’d read
#twitterstorians, what is one book that changed how you looked at the discipline?
— varsha venkat, or varsha as i call her (@_varsha_venkat) January 28, 2019
A great discussion broke out in the replies, as one would expect when a bunch of historians are asked about books.
I learned all sorts of things: very few historians write as well as William Cronin did, for example, and a lot of the books that changed our view of the discipline weren’t in our specific subfields or areas of expertise