| Generalizations in Historical Writing Reprint 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Riasanovsky, Alexander V. (Editor), Riznik, Barnes (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1512813559 ISBN-13: 9781512813555 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1963 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.14 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
