https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/05/04/a-generalists-work-day-1/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Thu, 05 May 2011 14:31:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/05/04/a-generalists-work-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-7641 Thu, 05 May 2011 14:18:38 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1561#comment-7641 If it makes you feel better, you’re not proving, you’re demonstrating. Important difference.

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/05/04/a-generalists-work-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-7639 Wed, 04 May 2011 20:25:09 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1561#comment-7639 I know it’s practically the same topic, but James Brooks’ Cousins and Captives looks at the same time period in a slightly different way. Ned Blackhawk’s work is relevant too, same time different place (Great Basin). The three could be linked in some pretty interesting ways in an undergraduate class that looked at colonialism (say by having one third of the class read each book and then jigsawing groups together to present on common themes and differences and discuss why those might be).

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