Mikhail Krom is Professor of Comparative Studies in History at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of Historical Anthropology (2010) and The Widowed Tsardom: The Political Crisis in Russia in the 1530s and the 1540s (2010). He is also the editor of History and Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century (co-edited with David Sabean and Gadi Algazi, 2006) and The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 (co-edited with Wim Blockmans and Justyna Wubs-Mroziewicz, 2017).Elizabeth Guyatt has translated from Russian since living and working in Moscow in the 1990s. She chaired the Translating Division of the Chartered Institute of Linguists from 2016-2018.

Mikhail Krom has been a pioneering thinker in historical methodology for decades in Russia, and in this book he blazes new trails in the method of historical comparison. Krom both defines the method and shows its power to analyze and explain key problems in society, economics, and politics. This book should get historians thinking about their craft in new and fruitful ways.

• Introduction: The Paradoxes of Historical ComparisonPart I: Historical Comparison from Herodotus to the Present1. Historical Comparison: From Classical Antiquity to the Enlightenment2. Historicism and Comparative Method in the 19th and early-20th Centuries3. The Lessons of Max Weber and Marc Bloch4. The Rise of Comparative Studies in History in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century5. New Challenges: Cultural Transfers, Histoire Croisee, Transnational History, and Criticism of Traditional Comparative History6. Comparative-Historical SociologyPart II: Historical Comparison in the Search of Method7. Does Method Exist?8. The Functions of Comparison and its Specifics in Historical Research9. The Choice of Objects for Comparison: Types of Historical Comparison10. Recommendations for Newcomers to Historical ComparisonPart III: The Themes of Comparative Historical Research11. Comparison in Economic History12. Comparison in Political History13. Comparison in Social History14. Comparative Studies in the History of Nationalism, Empires, and ColonialismConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex

Mikhail Krom is Professor of Comparative Studies in History at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of Historical Anthropology (2010) and The Widowed Tsardom: The Political Crisis in Russia in the 1530s and the 1540s (2010). He is also the editor of History and Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century (co-edited with David Sabean and Gadi Algazi, 2006) and The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 (co-edited with Wim Blockmans and Justyna Wubs-Mroziewicz, 2017).Elizabeth Guyatt has translated from Russian since living and working in Moscow in the 1990s. She chaired the Translating Division of the Chartered Institute of Linguists from 2016-2018.

Mikhail Krom has been a pioneering thinker in historical methodology for decades in Russia, and in this book he blazes new trails in the method of historical comparison. Krom both defines the method and shows its power to analyze and explain key problems in society, economics, and politics. This book should get historians thinking about their craft in new and fruitful ways.

• Introduction: The Paradoxes of Historical ComparisonPart I: Historical Comparison from Herodotus to the Present1. Historical Comparison: From Classical Antiquity to the Enlightenment2. Historicism and Comparative Method in the 19th and early-20th Centuries3. The Lessons of Max Weber and Marc Bloch4. The Rise of Comparative Studies in History in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century5. New Challenges: Cultural Transfers, Histoire Croisee, Transnational History, and Criticism of Traditional Comparative History6. Comparative-Historical SociologyPart II: Historical Comparison in the Search of Method7. Does Method Exist?8. The Functions of Comparison and its Specifics in Historical Research9. The Choice of Objects for Comparison: Types of Historical Comparison10. Recommendations for Newcomers to Historical ComparisonPart III: The Themes of Comparative Historical Research11. Comparison in Economic History12. Comparison in Political History13. Comparison in Social History14. Comparative Studies in the History of Nationalism, Empires, and ColonialismConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex

Mikhail Krom is Professor of Comparative Studies in History at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of Historical Anthropology (2010) and The Widowed Tsardom: The Political Crisis in Russia in the 1530s and the 1540s (2010). He is also the editor of History and Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century (co-edited with David Sabean and Gadi Algazi, 2006) and The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 (co-edited with Wim Blockmans and Justyna Wubs-Mroziewicz, 2017).Elizabeth Guyatt has translated from Russian since living and working in Moscow in the 1990s. She chaired the Translating Division of the Chartered Institute of Linguists from 2016-2018.

Mikhail Krom has been a pioneering thinker in historical methodology for decades in Russia, and in this book he blazes new trails in the method of historical comparison. Krom both defines the method and shows its power to analyze and explain key problems in society, economics, and politics. This book should get historians thinking about their craft in new and fruitful ways.

• Introduction: The Paradoxes of Historical ComparisonPart I: Historical Comparison from Herodotus to the Present1. Historical Comparison: From Classical Antiquity to the Enlightenment2. Historicism and Comparative Method in the 19th and early-20th Centuries3. The Lessons of Max Weber and Marc Bloch4. The Rise of Comparative Studies in History in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century5. New Challenges: Cultural Transfers, Histoire Croisee, Transnational History, and Criticism of Traditional Comparative History6. Comparative-Historical SociologyPart II: Historical Comparison in the Search of Method7. Does Method Exist?8. The Functions of Comparison and its Specifics in Historical Research9. The Choice of Objects for Comparison: Types of Historical Comparison10. Recommendations for Newcomers to Historical ComparisonPart III: The Themes of Comparative Historical Research11. Comparison in Economic History12. Comparison in Political History13. Comparison in Social History14. Comparative Studies in the History of Nationalism, Empires, and ColonialismConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex