>>Is it a Cox-like shyness about generalizing about patterns
>>of thought, because everything is so incommensurate?
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>From my experience as a history grad student, it's more an
>apolitical disinclination to speculate about what causes major
>changes. I think the last big debate over a question like that
>among historians was maybe the Brenner (from Robert Brenner) debate
>about the transiton from feudalism to capitalism.
Yeah, well Brenner's a red. But the Brenner debate was, what, 25-30 years ago, right?
Doug