I'm suggesting that Davies knew fine well that if he wrote anything bad about Poles in the last century, then he would have real problems here.
Last century?or post war?
Wrong. Don't try and push that tired myth. He's a professor of history, as listed on his faculty page. The fact that his PhD is in sociology doesn't change a thing about what his title is. If you want an honest debate, you need to respect the facts.
I don't know his biography, according to english wiki he is sociology professor, and yes, I know crappy source.
Did he earn his Ph. D in history or is he just teaching history?
Anyway, doesn't change the fact that his books are dishonest and poor scholarly work.
If it was genuinely researched and truthful, I suspect it would. The Americans might have some weird love-affair with Israel, but others don't. I find it interesting that no-one has actually attempted to do such a thing.
I doubt that, nobody really wants to touch it, the author would undoubtly be accused of antisemitism and it can often ruin you, there are safer topics.
In next year there is to be published work about slave trade in Central and Eastern Europe, it suggest that the merchants were mainly Jews. Curious about the accusations?
J.R. Nowak published book that was supposed to be an answer to Gross' work and guess were is he now? and yes that book was biased, but so was Gross and one is a famous scholar while the other is forgotten.
Think about it - you want publicity for your book, right? So why not say something completely ridiculous - which will cause the right wing media to explode. It did, and Gross got 2-3 years of free publicity from it. The resulting hysteria was also widely reported in the United States, so it helped him with book sales there, too. Very clever, I'd say.
This is what I don't understand. He is supposed to be a scholar! and you just said that it is about publicity, if he is about publicity then obviously he will write and say the most outrageous stuff to schock people, but if it is so then why are people trying to deefend his thesis.
And he said that during TV interview, public opinion was already interested, he is just that ridiculous. He lives in USA, where thes few words will shut anyone up.