No More Methodological Silos: Comments on Kreuzer's The Grammar of Time

The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis (Kreuzer 2023) delivers on its subtitle by providing a nuanced guide to the complexities and intellectual contribution of comparative historical analysis (hereafter CHA). CHA, Kreuzer avers, is perched in the “sweet spot” between ahistorical statistical analysis and historians’ efforts to understand events in their full geographic and temporal contexts. Kreuzer performs a valuable service by providing a narrative that situates different strands of CHA (and non-CHA) research in terms of the degree their analyses freeze history or time to make their arguments.