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Applied historical studies :An introductory reader
Applied Historical Studies are explorations of the past undertaken with the explicit purpose of advancing social scientific enquiries. To 'parti- cipate in the overall scholarly enterprize of discovering and developing general laws of human behaviour';' to test the models of the social scientist 'by running them through the dimension of time'; to help 'clothe' the propositions of social science so as to make them both 'verifiable and applicable'; are all facets of the applied historian's task. It is a task which involves a search for appropriate historical data; the devising of ways to exploit it and, not least important, the presentation of findings in a form that is acceptable to social scientists. It is the pur- pose of this introduction to examine these three tasks in turn: the rest of the book is designed to illustrate them.rn
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