2020
DOI: 10.1177/0961463x20944038
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Waving the historian’s magic wand: Temporal comparisons and analogies in the writing of history

Abstract: The main purpose of this article is to raise some questions about temporal comparisons and analogies in the writing of history. The article has four parts. The first one shows that historical discipline, conceptual history and language itself can scarcely be conceived of in the absence of comparisons, implicit or explicit, between events, processes and individuals. The second section provides a few samples of the sources of inspiration of some recurrent temporal parallelisms in the Western tradition. The third… Show more

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