In this rapprochement of the (selectively) universal and the (extended) local, the study of scientific styles may help save contextual historiography from its own success.
In doing so, he prepared the way for his later reputation as a rhetorician uninterested in the new science of modern historiography.
What is more, the historiography of popular music, especially in connection with mainstream genres, is clearly dominated by non-academic interests, as it were.
As the number of case studies increases, scholarly exchanges will become more informed, the comparative exercise more disciplined, and gender more central to regional historiography.
This is partly because the chronological gaps so often remaining in the historiography of other areas are here evenly filled.
This has produced a historiography that is effectively bifurcated, and quite variegated.
The lacuna is especially daunting in state-building historiography.
This book and its conclusions form a necessary and welcome revision to an older historiography which has in many ways outlived its usefulness.
