Generalizations in Historical Writing (Anniversary Collection) [Hardcover] Riasanovsky, Alexander V. and Riznik, Barnes

ISBN 10: 1512813559 / ISBN 13: 9781512813555

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 2063

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Generalizations in Historical Writing (Anniversary Collection) [Hardcover] Riasanovsky, Alexander V. and Riznik, Barnes
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Publication Date: 2063
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1512813559
• ISBN 13: 9781512813555
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 18 ounces

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Synopsis

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.