Generalizations in Historical Writing FICTION / Medical Everyone is extremely happy and

Everyone is extremely happy and joy is all over the town

historians and commentators

and for anyone with an interest in California’s first decades as a state

perhaps most dangerously

Generalizations in Historical Writing FICTION / Medical Everyone is extremely happy andOne of the difficulties in talking about historical generalizations is the problem of finding a language in the middle ground between abstract speculation and mere recording of raw empirical data. However difficult this task might be, the intellectual process involved in historical generalization is a useful one, inviting reflection and discussion. The five historians who have contributed to this volume chose their own topics. Thus the book as a whole