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WILLIAM OSGOOD AYDELOTTE
WILLIAM OSGOOD AYDELOTTE
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Beneath the affiliative differences among historians lie disagreements as to whether history shouIc! be presented in narrative or analytical form, the degree to which historical evidence can serve as the basis for generalization and, incleecI, what constitutes appropriate evidence.
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University. He taught English literature at Indiana University, mover!
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William spent his last two pre-college years in the William Penn Charter School in Germantown, Pennsylvania, a beneficial matching of talent en c! institution.
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as to his future course. Following completion of his doctorate in 1934 he became an assistant in the office of the chairman of the Fecleral Home Loan Bank Bo arc!
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at two of these conferences. He was a member of the Quantitative Data Committee of the American Historical Association ~968-72)
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As an adult, therefore, he was superbly equal to the clemancis of any social occasion, intimiciatec! by neither clon nor clowager.
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Some among Aydelotte's colleagues later filled chairs in leacling history departments, accentec! annointment at the Institute for Advanced Study, anct became Crescents of the American Historical Association en c!
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He left the study of classics for history when he began doctoral work, but with that completed he entered government service for which training in neither classics nor history provided full preparation. Viewed from Washington, his future career appeared unpromising, but his experiences there pointed him back to academia with a deeper understanding of the social usefulness of research.
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This source was all the more intriguing because, in repeating the Corn Laws, the parliament of IS4147 effecter! one of the funciamental policy reversals in moclern British history.
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per sonal and political biographical data bearing upon the 815 members who sat in the British House of Commons between the British general elections of ~ 841 en c!
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1977 Ayclelotte publisher! a series of papers dealing with the political behavior of the members of the Corn Laws Parliament.
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A president of the American Historical Association clenouncec! "worship at the shrine of that bitchgocicless, QUANTIFICATION."5 Several of the cliscipline's brightest younger stars pronouncer!
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an earlier publisher! discussion of the problems of using quantitative analysis in the stucly of the Corn Laws Parliament.
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. Aydelotte was keenly aware of the difficulty of developing useful generalizations in history about social processes that could be considered valid in all times and places (that is.
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His theoretical papers dealing with the broader issues involves! in historical research en c!
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members of the Iowa political science department in teaching an interclepartmental graduate seminar in legislative behavior. He fount!
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We are particularly indebted to Myrtle Kitchell Aydelotte who has deposited the William Osgood Aydelotte papers in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa, to Henry Horwitz who made a preliminary investigation of the collection on our behalf and to university archivist Earl M Rogers and staff members who facilitated my examination of the collection.
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In Privacy and Confidentiality as Factors in Survey Response, p.
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Nineteenth century British pamphlets at the Newberry Library. Newberry Libr.
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5~2~:95114. 1967 The country gentlemen and the repeal of the corn laws.
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Princeton: Princeton University Press. Constituency influence on the British House of Commons, 18411847.
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