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A New Framework for Social History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

J. H. Hexter
Affiliation:
Queens College

Extract

Iam Going to talk about historical comparison along a time axis in connection with the problem of a new framework for social history. Lest I be thought to aim at heights of egomania never before scaled, let me hastily add, however, that the full title of my remarks would not be “Comparison along the Time Axis: A New Framework for Social History! Come and get It!” It might rather be “Comparison along the Time Axis: A New Framework for Social History? Can Anything be Done with It?”

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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1955

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1 The immediately felt need to put “question mark for the sixteenth, a Puritan aristocratic connection for the seventeenth” suggests at the outset certain peculiarities of those two centuries.