Reviews for Maritime South Africa A Pictorial History

The average rating for Maritime South Africa A Pictorial History based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-30 00:00:00 James Robertson Poke your fun at me....go ahead, I deserve it with this one. But alas, I had to...a copy was sitting in my office and a copy was sitting in my home, I'm sure if I waited any longer one would slither into my underwear drawer and wait to surprise me as I reached for a pair knickers. The damn thing goaded me into reading it to make myself even more deeply engrained in the history of ASU Athletics. Back when a trip to Phoenix was a "huge event"...apparently when Arizona heard about paved roads and such they decided to go buckwild for the next century or so as they're still working on it tonight. WELL DONE ARIZONA. So now I am all-knowing on the history of the athletic department that pays the bills. I can sleep well knowing this book isn't lurking over me with its accusatory eyes that I don't love the Sun Devils as much as I should...I'll be getting my third sparky tattoo shortly...

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-14 00:00:00 Cliff Otto Traverso's version of Marxism never rises above the level of caricature and academic kitsch. Neither Marx, Lenin, Engels, or Trotsky ever promoted the idea of linearity or inevitability in history in general or in the contemporary class struggle. They were conscious polemical opponents of such ideas; at their best, so were Kautsky, Labriola, and Plekhanov, not to mention Mandel and George Novack. Traverso, for a "man of the left," seems to be satisfied with a knowledge of Marxism obtained second-hand, not from the works of the movement's founders and leaders. To tackle subjects of the scope Traverso undertakes, this is simply not good enough.