The modernization of the european periphery; Ireland, Poland, and the two sicilies, 1820-1870: Parallel and connected, distinct and comparable

Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 145-163

  Petrusewicz, Marta ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203312346     Document Type: Chapter

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6. I think that this is still a valid reflection on these distinctions attempted years ago by William Sewell in "Marc Bloch and the Logic of Comparative History," History and Theory, VI: 2 (1967), 208-218.
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51. "Causal explanation will be a loser, but comparison will gain." Maurice Aymard, "Histoire et comparaison" in Hartmut Atsma and André Burguière, eds., Marc Bloch aujourd'hui. Histoire comparée et Sciences sociales (Paris: Editions de l'EHESS, 1990), p. 278.