{"coupon":"","discount":"","doc_name":"A Story of Blood and Fur: The Life of Production o","doc_id":67655,"editorId":"454","email":"thomas.dubois@anu.edu.au","message":"<p>Hello!<br \/><br \/>A month or so back, you edited a book blurb for me, for which I was exceedingly grateful.<br \/><br \/>This one is a full article and has a rather specific&nbsp;objective. It is being aimed for the <em>American Historical Review<\/em>, which is the big journal of the discipline. It is read by historians of all areas and eras, so articles have to have broad disciplinary appeal. This is an article about&nbsp;animal husbandry in Inner Mongolia. Historians of the French Revolution or Gilded Age politics&nbsp;have to find it meaningful. You no doubt see the&nbsp;challenge.<br \/><br \/>The disciplinary appeal is a&nbsp;critique of historians who try to&nbsp;talk about a place without going there, in this case economic historians who draw conclusions based on statistics. (You would be amazed how many scholars of China do not speak Chinese.) I make this criticism more overt&nbsp;at the end of the article, but don't want to start the piece by hitting readrs over the head with a hammer.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>The point of the article is the details of production. I call this \"production history.\" I want readers to <em>love<\/em> these details, to know <em>why<\/em> they have to care about how things are made. I want this to be a story.<br \/><br \/>Please do not worry about the footnotes. I am still filling those in.<br \/><br \/>With thanks,<br \/><br \/>Thomas<\/p>","price_select":"5","temp_doc_name":"upload_574914467cc733.07218927.docx","word_count":"10744","subtotal":150.42,"total_amt":150.42,"firstName":"Thomas","lastName":"DuBois","lastfour":"8690","exp":"0318","address":"28 Gilruth St. ","city":"Hackett","zip":"2602","state":"ACT","country":"Australia","transactionReference":"8445368477"}