David Kaiser has bemoaned loss of a larger comparative perspective, within the discipline of history, on his blog recently.
Great concern.
I want to echo that thought here as well, with a little reference.
Recently started reading Empires Of The Atlantic World, J H Elliott.
His Introduction, p. xv, and following, explores a similar point to that made by Kaiser, and explains Elliott's reasoning for the book he wrote, wonderful so far.
(I seem pulled in the direction of Regius Professors of Modern History.)
One could make similar observations, and I have been trying here to do so, about parochialism, or over compartmentalism, of research, techniques, investigation, and or experiment, both within and across many different fields.
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