The Dangers of Comparative Work

One of the things that sort of struck me is this relationship between transnational history and I guess interdisciplinarity within the humanities or the social sciences. It's a terrifying thing to try and claim, which is foolish that you're expert or expert enough in two domains to be able to write about them with competence. One challenge of course is we don't want to fall into the trap of hypothesizing what it is that we're comparing,. saying of treating them as poles, as opposites, as challenge. The deepest problem we face as historians is not that our sources are trenchant. We tend to see religion everywhere, but that in and of itself is a category of analysis,