Historicism and laws

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Relativism in historiography

By Haines Brown, 14 December 2002. The perceived threat of relativism to two quite different and largely contradictory intellectual traditions. The infusion of social science into 20th century historiography did not at all represent a threat to the traditional quest for certainty in European historiography.

West is not only direction to the world's path ahead

By Mark Mazower, The Irish Times, Friday 1 April 2005. Every society was thought to make the same journey, at greater or lesser speed, from hidebound tradition to the bright promise of industrial modernity and unrestricted economic growth.