In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge

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The Art of the Footnote reacquaints students and writers with the footnote as the most effective method for presenting all of the information that is necessary

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Footnotes have not had it easy. Their dominance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature and scholarship was both hard-won -- following many years of s