Generalizations in Historical Writing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781512813555)

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.

Author: Alexander V. Riasanovsky
ISBN-10: 1512813559
ISBN-13: 9781512813555
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
Language: English
Published: 01/29/1963
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d