Generalizations in Historical Writing

Alexander V. Riasanovsky

ISBN 10: 1512813559 / ISBN 13: 9781512813555

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, US, 1963

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One of the difficulties in talking about historical generalizations is the problem of finding a language in the middle ground between abstract speculation and mere recording of raw empirical data. However difficult this task might be, the intellectual process involved in historical generalization is a useful one, inviting reflection and discussion. The five historians who have contributed to this volume chose their own topics. Thus the book as a whole is not a sequence but a cluster, in which not only the varying emphasis-here largely on the practical, there largely on the theoretical-but also the choice of topics in itself illustrates the pluralistic nature of historical generalizations. Contributors: H. Stuart Hughes, Isaiah Berlin, David M. Potter, Albert GuÉrard, and Crane Brinton.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Generalizations in Historical Writing
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, US
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1512813559
• ISBN 13: 9781512813555
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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One of the difficulties in talking about historical generalizations is the problem of finding a language in the middle ground between abstract speculation and mere recording of raw empirical data. However difficult this task might be, the intellectual process involved in historical generalization is a useful one, inviting reflection and discussion.

The five historians who have contributed to this volume chose their own topics. Thus the book as a whole is not a sequence but a cluster, in which not only the varying emphasis—here largely on the practical, there largely on the theoretical—but also the choice of topics in itself illustrates the pluralistic nature of historical generalizations.

Contributors: H. Stuart Hughes, Isaiah Berlin, David M. Potter, Albert Guérard, and Crane Brinton.