@Setanta and yet I am the one proposing detailed arguments, facts and examples here. You are the one who has no argument. Just because you disagree with my point doesn’t make it disappear, and it does not exempt you from trying to provide some argument. Just saying ”it is so because I say so” doesn’t cut it.
The way I see it, this is a discussion, not a war. If you keep up being belligerant, I will report you.
@zenvelo History is neither an Art (as an outlet of expression) nor is it a Science (systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Is this the only definition of science there is? For what reason does it exclude culture and other social facts? Why can we study scientifically the societies of bees and ants, the local cultures of birds and apes, but not our own?
As a counter-example, archeology studies cultural artifacts and statements, and yet it is generally considered scientific.
The idea that “History is written the winners” is little more than a cliché. Nothing prevent the French from writting on Waterloo, the Brits from writting on the US revolution, or the US from writting about the Vietnam war. The sentence implies a TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE LOSERS, which is rarely the case.