Allende's Chile

Historians generally recognize that the writing of contemporary history is an exercise of some delicacy. Narrating the contests of the Christian sects at the time of Constantine, Edward Gibbon remarks that 'the fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribingallvirtue to themselves andallguilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the daemons. Our calmer reason,' he goes on, 'will reject such pure and perfect monsters of vice and sanctity

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• Back to the barracks

  Harold Blakemore•Third World Quarterly•1985

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• The decline and fall of the Roman Empire

  Edward Gibbon•The decline and fall of the Roman…•1800

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• Public Opinion and the Movement of Chilean Government to the Left, 1952-72

  James W Prothro, Patricio E Chaparro•The Journal of Politics•1974

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