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Correlation of
Comparative
Typology with History
Done by: `A` group
student
Urunbaeva Jamola
Checked by: Rasulova M.I.
What is comparison?
 Comparison - is one of the oldest methods
used more or less by historians and social
scientists in their works.
In the simplest sense, the method includes
demonstrating similarities and differences
between:
 Nations
 States
 Revolutions
 Regions
 Cases,etc.
When Comparative History
began developing?
 The practice of CH began to take a
form like other methods of history in
19th century when professionalism
increasingly settled.
 Through the late 19th and early 20th
century, CH began to be widely
applied by many historians and social
scientists
MARC BLOCH’S
COMPARATIVE HISTORY
Bloch declared his insistence to follow ‘historical’ rather
than ‘universal’ and described the two methods as
follows:
 Type I (Universal Comparison): The historian select
some societies so widely separated in time and space
that any analogies observed between them with respect
to such and such phenomena can obviously not be
explained either by mutual influence or by a common
origin.
 Type II (Historical Comparison): This is to make a
parallel study of societies that are at once neighboring
and contemporary, exercising a constant mutual
influence, exposed throughout their development to the
action of the same broad causes just because they are
close and contemporaneous, and owing their existence
in part at least to a common origin.
1st example:
Historical studies of Bloch on Florence and
Genoa.
These were the first principalities in Medieval
Europe issuing gold coin. This was generally
attributed to the wealth and the economic growth
of the principalities. However, Venice, despite its
wealth, introduced gold coin several decades
after Florence and Genoa. When Bloch studied
the reasons of such a difference between
principalities he reached the conclusion that
Florence and Genoa had some advantages in
their trades with the Orient. They received gold in
trade. Although Venice had also favourable trade
with Levant, it was paid silver in trade due to its
more traditional trade connections. Thus Venice
failed to receive gold and was not able to issue
gold coin.
LEADING PRACTITIONERS’ USE OF
COMPARATIVE HISTORY
According to Skocpol and Somers,
three different logics of
comparative history.
 1. Comparative history as the parallel
demonstration of theory.
 2. Comparative history as macro-
social analysis actually does resemble
multivariate hypothesis-testing.
 3. Comparative history as the contrast
of contexts.
2nd example:
1. Comparative history as the parallel
demonstration of theory.
 Example: Eisenstadt’s The Political
Systems of Empires
He tries to reach a general theory for rise and
fall of ‘historical centralized bureaucratic
empires.’ However, it is hardly possible to say
that his attempt was successful. Because,
Eisenstadt selects different empires from all
over the world and from different times. Both
geographical and historical distance among
samples forces the consistency of the work.
3rd example:
2. Comparative history as macro-social
analysis.
Example: Reinhard Bendix`s Nation-Building
and Citizenship
Bendix studied authority relations in both
private and public spheres as transformed
directly and indirectly by democratic and
industrial revolutions of Western Europe. The
transformation of the social structure and
authority relations are widely discussed and
then compared with the patterns and
developments in both the Tsarist and
Communist Russia.
4th example:
3. Comparative history as the contrast of
contexts.
 Example: Barrington Moore`s Social Origin
of Dictatorship and Democracy
Moore made case studies on six countries;
England, France, the United States, Japan,
India, and China, additionally an extensive
study on Germany and Russia. Moore offers
three distinct ways of political modernization
and each characterized by specific
conditions: the path to parliamentary
democracy, the path to fascist dictatorship,
and the path to communist dictatorship.
Summary:
In 19th century Comparative History
increasingly settled as professionalism.
Comparative History began to be widely
applied through the late 19th and early 20th
century. Later practitioners of the comparative
method were more ambitious and more
theoretical-minded in respect to the formers.
Their main concern was to understand
‘societal dynamics’ and ‘‘epochal
transformations of cultures and social
structures.’’ However, theoretical implications
of the comparative method are highly
complex and they require a careful analysis
and observation to be fully understood.

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Correlation of Comparative Typology with History.pptx

  • 1. Correlation of Comparative Typology with History Done by: `A` group student Urunbaeva Jamola Checked by: Rasulova M.I.
  • 2. What is comparison?  Comparison - is one of the oldest methods used more or less by historians and social scientists in their works. In the simplest sense, the method includes demonstrating similarities and differences between:  Nations  States  Revolutions  Regions  Cases,etc.
  • 3. When Comparative History began developing?  The practice of CH began to take a form like other methods of history in 19th century when professionalism increasingly settled.  Through the late 19th and early 20th century, CH began to be widely applied by many historians and social scientists
  • 4. MARC BLOCH’S COMPARATIVE HISTORY Bloch declared his insistence to follow ‘historical’ rather than ‘universal’ and described the two methods as follows:  Type I (Universal Comparison): The historian select some societies so widely separated in time and space that any analogies observed between them with respect to such and such phenomena can obviously not be explained either by mutual influence or by a common origin.  Type II (Historical Comparison): This is to make a parallel study of societies that are at once neighboring and contemporary, exercising a constant mutual influence, exposed throughout their development to the action of the same broad causes just because they are close and contemporaneous, and owing their existence in part at least to a common origin.
  • 5. 1st example: Historical studies of Bloch on Florence and Genoa. These were the first principalities in Medieval Europe issuing gold coin. This was generally attributed to the wealth and the economic growth of the principalities. However, Venice, despite its wealth, introduced gold coin several decades after Florence and Genoa. When Bloch studied the reasons of such a difference between principalities he reached the conclusion that Florence and Genoa had some advantages in their trades with the Orient. They received gold in trade. Although Venice had also favourable trade with Levant, it was paid silver in trade due to its more traditional trade connections. Thus Venice failed to receive gold and was not able to issue gold coin.
  • 6. LEADING PRACTITIONERS’ USE OF COMPARATIVE HISTORY According to Skocpol and Somers, three different logics of comparative history.  1. Comparative history as the parallel demonstration of theory.  2. Comparative history as macro- social analysis actually does resemble multivariate hypothesis-testing.  3. Comparative history as the contrast of contexts.
  • 7. 2nd example: 1. Comparative history as the parallel demonstration of theory.  Example: Eisenstadt’s The Political Systems of Empires He tries to reach a general theory for rise and fall of ‘historical centralized bureaucratic empires.’ However, it is hardly possible to say that his attempt was successful. Because, Eisenstadt selects different empires from all over the world and from different times. Both geographical and historical distance among samples forces the consistency of the work.
  • 8. 3rd example: 2. Comparative history as macro-social analysis. Example: Reinhard Bendix`s Nation-Building and Citizenship Bendix studied authority relations in both private and public spheres as transformed directly and indirectly by democratic and industrial revolutions of Western Europe. The transformation of the social structure and authority relations are widely discussed and then compared with the patterns and developments in both the Tsarist and Communist Russia.
  • 9. 4th example: 3. Comparative history as the contrast of contexts.  Example: Barrington Moore`s Social Origin of Dictatorship and Democracy Moore made case studies on six countries; England, France, the United States, Japan, India, and China, additionally an extensive study on Germany and Russia. Moore offers three distinct ways of political modernization and each characterized by specific conditions: the path to parliamentary democracy, the path to fascist dictatorship, and the path to communist dictatorship.
  • 10. Summary: In 19th century Comparative History increasingly settled as professionalism. Comparative History began to be widely applied through the late 19th and early 20th century. Later practitioners of the comparative method were more ambitious and more theoretical-minded in respect to the formers. Their main concern was to understand ‘societal dynamics’ and ‘‘epochal transformations of cultures and social structures.’’ However, theoretical implications of the comparative method are highly complex and they require a careful analysis and observation to be fully understood.