https://classletters.org/tags/historiography/Recent content in Historiography on Class LettersHugoen-usSun, 16 Jun 2024 05:12:05 +0000https://classletters.org/posts/assorted/what_is_history_carr/Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:12:05 +0000https://classletters.org/posts/assorted/what_is_history_carr/<p>&ldquo;That elusive entity &lsquo;human nature&rsquo; has varied so much from country to country and from century to century that it is difficult not to regard it as a historical phenomenon shaped by prevailing social conditions and conventions. There are many differences between, say, Americans, Russians, and Indians. But some, and perhaps the most important, of these differences take the form of different attitudes to social relations between individuals, or, in other words, to the way in which society should be constituted, so that the study of differences between American, Russian, and Indian society as a whole may well turn out to be the best way of studying differences between individual Americans, Russians, and Indians. Civilized man, like primitive man, is moulded by society just as effectively as society is moulded by him. You can no more have the egg without the hen than you can have the hen without the egg.&rdquo;</p>